Lathe tooling direction: best travel for a left-hand tool Identify the most efficient traverse direction for cutting with a left-hand single-point tool on a lathe. Choose the correct travel direction along the bed.

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Lathe tooling direction: best travel for a left-hand tool  Identify the most efficient traverse direction for cutting with a left-hand single-point tool on a lathe. Choose the correct travel direction along the bed.

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Concept Left-hand tools are ground to cut efficiently when moving from left to right. Right-hand tools cut efficiently from right to left. Why others are incorrect The compound slide option is about feed direction control, not the fundamental effici…

Lathe tooling direction: best travel for a left-hand tool Identify the most efficient traverse direction for cutting with a left-hand single-point tool on a lathe. Choose the correct travel direction along the bed.

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