turning
Sign in to saveAlso known as turning and boring, lathing
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- machining
- Image
- SchlichtenDrehen.jpg
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- Commons category
- Turning (machining process)
- topic's main category
- Category:Turning
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- practiced by
- turner
- different from
- woodturning
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Turning operations
- Lathes
- Workholding methods
- Tooling
- Dynamics of turning
- Forces
- Speeds and feeds
- See also
- References
- External links
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Turning is a machining process in which a cutting tool is held nearly stationary to cut a rotating workpiece. The cutting tool can be slowly moved back-and-forth and in-and-out to cut cylindrical shapes and flat surfaces on the workpiece. Turning is usually done with a lathe.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “turning” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.