Introduction to Turning
Discover the essential safety requirements and fundamental skills needed for operating centre lathes with our comprehensive course.
Method: Face to Face
Duration: 4 Days
Cost: £1800
Location: Coventry
Is this course for you?
- Do you have little or no experience with Centre Lathe Turning?
- Do you simply was to refresh your skills and knowledge in this areas?
- Do you want to broaden your engineering skills?
If you have answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, this course is for you.
Course Content
Learning Objectives
Target Audience
The course covers the following topics:
- Lathe safety
- Machine controls and operation
- Types of turning tools
- Speed and feed calculations
- Tool setting
- Working from datums
- Setting work three jaw chuck
- Setting work four jaw chuck
- Using the tailstock
- Turning between centres
- Boring
- Drilling holes
- Drilling to depth
- Centre drills
- Reaming
- Producing threads tap and die method.
- Compound slide alignment for producing angles.
- Form tools
- Turning steps and shoulders
