We have been talking quite a lot about various types of machines used in industry in general as well as those used specifically in manufacturing technology including lathe machines in our previous articles. In this article we will focus on a particular type of lathe namely the turret lathe and learn about its working and uses it can be put to.

What is a Turret Lathe?

As we learnt earlier, a lathe can be used for various purposes including woodcutting, metal-cutting, watch-making and what not. The basic purpose of all these machines is to minimize human labour involved in the process and make it as much automated and refined as possible. Lathes which are used for metal cutting in industrial processes are normally required to produce products on a mass scale.

A single product requires several machining operations which in turn would require several different kinds of tools to carry out these operations. If an operator were to manually adjust each tool after every single operation, this would certainly consume a lot of time and unnecessary efforts.