Lathe machine is a tool which spins a block of material to perform
various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, or
deformation with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object
which has symmetry about an axis of rotation. Lathes are used in
woodturning, metalworking, metal spinning, and glass working. Lathes
can be used to shape pottery, the most well known design being the potter's
wheel. Most suitably equipped metalworking lathes can also be used to
produce most solids of revolution, plane surfaces and screw threads or
helices.
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