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Industrial machinery

Of or pertaining to machines or parts of machines that are used in an industrial setting.

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saddle gib

Industrial machinery; Lathe

Functions like the crosslide gib to keep the saddle in tight adjustment against the dovetailed bed.

saddle

Industrial machinery; Lathe

The part, shaped like an "H", that supports the crosslide table and is moved up and down the bed using the leadscrew handwheel. Along with the apron, it is one of the two main ...

spindle

Industrial machinery; Lathe

The spindle is inside the headstock and is driven with a belt running from the motor pulley to a pulley on the rear end of the spindle shaft. The nose of the spindle is treaded on ...

morse taper

Industrial machinery; Lathe

A taper of specific dimensions used to mate matching male and female parts such that they lock together tightly and concentrically.

parting

Industrial machinery; Lathe

Used to create deep grooves which will remove a completed or part-complete component from its parent stock.

leadscrew

Industrial machinery; Lathe

Precision screw that runs the length of the bed. Used to drive the carriage under power for turning and thread cutting operations. Smaller leadscrews are used within the ...

Jacobs yaper

Industrial machinery; Lathe

One of several industry standard specifications for tapered tool shanks. Tapered shafts on tools engage with a recess of matching taper in a lathe, drill press, milling machine ...