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Lathe – graduating – links

It is a very common task to have to be able to make the graduations needed to form a scale. There are at least three different situations where this might be needed.

A scale might be needed on:

a long straight surface

a round surface

and a conical surface

All three of these can be done on a milling machine – see

…Milling – graduating

It is possible to graduate a scale on the lathe on a surface that is round or conical. See

Lathe graduating