Sales of cam-style automatic lathes began in 1958.

The first kinds of automatic lathes were mechanically automated ones (whose control is via cams or tracers and pantographs).

It is not unusual for cam-op automatic lathes to beat CNCs on cycle time.

An automatic lathe may have a single spindle or multiple spindles.

The company also produced bicycles, roller skates, automatic lathes, and sewing machines.

The good die with the bad - the flush toilets with the automatic lathe controls.

"Part of the template assembly for an automatic lathe," Dar answered.

The factory does have an automatic lathe, but the machine is used to produce only one item, a small pedestal clock.

"That's an awful lot of labor for one spare part," he said as he watched her watch the automatic lathe.