I sometimes put my lathe in reverse but I can't remember why now. It's a camlock spindle though so it doesn't matter.
So's mine I do cut tapers in reverse so I can feed in the topslide from the front of the lathe and not have to reach over the bed.
I sometimes put my lathe in reverse but I can't remember why now. It's a camlock spindle though so it doesn't matter.
Another stupid question. Why would you take a cut with the chuck rotation in reverse?
I can see the need for traveling in the other direction towards the tail stock but then you just use a tumble reverse gear in which case the chuck still spins the forwards way. Is that right?
I just use the "undo" buttonHaving a reverse is a very useful feature. Especially if you take too much of a cut off