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Lathe Operations
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Machining Operations

Most important machining operations:
Turning
Facing
Drilling
Milling
Boring
Threading
Knurling
Shaping and planing
Broaching
Sawing
Various Cutting
Operations
Turing produces straight, conical, curved, or grooved
workpieces

Facing produces a flat surface at the end of the part

Boring to enlarge a hole

Drilling - to produce a hole

Cutting off to cut off a workpeiece

Threading to produce threads

Knurling produces a regularly shaped roughness
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Chamfering :- cutting edge cuts an angle on
the corner on the cylinder

Tapping :- used to provide internal screw
threads on an existing hole.

Milling :- creats a planar surface,other
geometrics possible either by cutter
path shape

Broaching :- it is one type of cutting machine


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Drilling
Creates a round hole in
a workpart
Contrasts with boring
which can only enlarge
an existing hole
Cutting tool called a drill
or drill bit
Customarily performed
on a drill press
Figure 21.3 (b) drilling
[Groover (2004), p.501]

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Figure 21.3 - Two forms of milling:
(a) peripheral milling, and (b) face milling
Milling Parameters Illustrated
[Groover (2004), p.516]

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Turning
A single point cutting tool removes material
from a rotating workpiece to generate a
rotationally symmetric shape
Machine tool is called a lathe
Types of cuts:
Facing
Contour turning
Chamfering
Parting (Cut-off) / Grooving
Threading

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Turning Parameters Illustrated
Figure 22.5 - Turning operation [Groover (2004), p.503]
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Facing
Figure 22.6 (a) facing
Tool is fed
radially inward
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Contour Turning
Instead of feeding the
tool parallel to the axis
of rotation, tool follows a
contour that is not
necessarily straight
(thus creating a
contoured form).
Figure 22.6 (c) contour turning
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Right & Left Hand Tools
Right Hand Tool:
Cuts from right to left


Left Hand Tool:
Cuts from left to right

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Chamfering
Cutting edge
cuts an angle on
the corner of the
cylinder, forming
a "chamfer"
Figure 22.6 (e) chamfering
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Parting (Cutoff) / Grooving
Tool is fed
radially into
rotating work at
some location to
cut off end of
part, or provide
a groove
Figure 22.6 (f) cutoff
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Threading
Pointed form tool
is fed linearly
across surface of
rotating workpart
parallel to axis of
rotation at a large
feed rate, thus
creating threads
Figure 22.6 (g) threading