Sentence examples for lathe at from inspiring English sources

At the age of 15, Brian started as a turner on a lathe at a factory, soon leaving to join a light engineering company where he stayed for 23 years.

One of the newer developments is multiple-axis turning, allowing an artist to spin his block or piece of wood on the lathe at different centers of gravity, producing asymmetrical forms.

Take the chance to learn how to make your own arrow or weave willow baskets at Sherwood Pines in Nottinghamshire, to work with green wood and turn it on a pole lathe at Hamsterley, or concoct some strange tree potions at Westonbirt.

"I was a bit anxious walking into a roomful of people," said Mr. Pearshouse, chatting amid the din created by a table saw, router and lathe at the Camden Town shed, a 700-square-foot workshop in a local community center.

Yes, the power of workers to strike might have given us such useful inventions as "the weekend" and "not being mangled into a splinter-strewn pulp by an industrial lathe at the age of 14", but we have those things now, and the idea that we should continue to fight for a minimally liveable life is now an outmoded relic of a past age.

Yes, the power of workers to strike might have given us such useful inventions as "the weekend" and "not being mangled into a splinter-strewn pulp by an industrial lathe at the age of 14," but we have those things now, and the idea that we should continue to fight for a minimally livable life is now an outmoded relic of a past age.

After due reflection, the firm decided that it could use another four lathes, at that.

Investigators said they believed an angle grinder he bought on 5 July was used to dismantle the lathes at the unit.

Standing at the lathe as Mr Sillitoe had stood, they dreamed of "marvellous things".And they would not kowtow to anyone, whether rate-checker, foreman, boss or government.

But if you think you will spend a lot of time at the lathe as your skills and ambitions grow, then you will need the extra power and weight of a larger machine.

When Yale University undergraduate Michele Dufault died when her hair got caught in a lathe, as she worked alone late at night in a university science building in 2011, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration could only make recommendations.