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verbpast tense: turned; past participle: turned
4. shape (something) on a lathe.
Please don't let it happen again.
I've never understood this. Turning is the process of removing material from the outer diameter. But how come all lathe operations also fall under "turning". Even though it's not proper English, I always say turning, facing, and boring are operations and that "lathing" is performing any of these operations.
Pics and hopefully vid in a moment. Can't show the forging shop as that's the core of the business. Steel mill rolls (hot side) pretty much destined 80% to China. Insert is 50mm long with 3mm corner radius and depth of cut on roughing passes are usually at full depth (47mm) X 2.0" Feed/Rev.
Part material is all HSS.
Coming out of the annealing oven. 60" Diameter x 17' long.