Introduction to Turning
Discover the essential safety requirements and fundamental skills needed for operating centre lathes with our comprehensive course.
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
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
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course the learner will:
- Ability to operate a Lathe safely
- Understand how to set up the machine correctly
- Produce accurate work from technical drawings
- Machine external and internal features
- Use a variety of work holding methods
Who is this course for?
- Maintenance Engineer
- Machine Operative
- Machinist
- Tool maker
