The case of the Japanese officers and men on the transport Kinshu Maru, sank by the Russian warships on the 26th of last April, should have given the enemy matter for reflection.
The faith and courage which helped the Greeks to repel the Persian invasion were of precisely the same quality as that religious heroism which now helps the Japanese to challenge the power of Russia.
The domestic cult proper may not have been established until about the eighth century, when the spirit-tablet is supposed to have been introduced from China.
But it is necessary that such changes be effected by degrees,--not with such inopportune haste as to imperil the moral constitution of the nation.
This will signify retrogression in some directions; but it will also mean invigoration in others.
Finally the work of the lathe is often reversed, so that the line which is cut by the graver and should print in color prints white, and vice versa.
Illustration: Ruling Patterns] The geometric lathe is a most delicate and complicated machine.
The lad was a skilled mechanic, and she took his place at his lathe in the Leeds shops where he worked.
I have no hesitation in saying that at this particular point the split chuck should be removed from the lathehead and carefully placed in the chuck box and the cement chuck put in its place.
Turn slowly in the lathe and examine with glass to see that it is quite true.
I will take it for granted that you use an American-made lathe of some kind, or a foreign-made lathe manufactured on American lines.
Revolve the lathe slowly and insert the staff so that the pivot rests squarely and firmly in the center.
The sleeve I made from a solid piece of brass, turning it down in my lathe and finishing the projection by means of a file.
Take a large sized pin with a good point, and placing the point in the center, maintain it in position by pressing upon the head, and while revolving the lathe slowly proceed to examine by means of your glass.
Heat the shell or tube gently by means of the lamp, keeping the lathe revolving slowly all the while, and taking the staff in your tweezers proceed to insert it carefully into the tube.
During the operation of grinding, the lathe should be run at a high speed and the slips applied to the work lightly, squarely and carefully.
If it does not come out clean, or if soap is not used, it may be brightened by again inserting in the lathe and bringing it in contact with a piece of fine emery paper or cloth.
Now remove the lamp and keep the lathe revolving until the wax is quite cool, when it should be removed, by means of a graver, down to the dimensions designated by the lines in Figs.
Illustration: The Main Ambition of a Boy Mechanic is to Own a Lathe] Amateur Mechanic's Combination Lathe By Joe V.
A Lathe Bench While working at a bench, or foot-power lathe, it is quite convenient to have some sort of a seat to sit on while at work, or between operations.
One of the standards of the headstock is the extension of the lathe standard, as previously mentioned; the other standard being cut 9-3/4 in.
Lathe Dogs In the absence of a full equipment of lathe dogs the amateur can make them cheaply from pieces of iron pipe.
Artistic Wood Turning Some very odd and beautiful effects can be obtained in lathework by making up the stock from several pieces of various kinds of wood glued together.
The cap, not having sufficient depth for holding in a chuck, was screwed on a short piece of pipe and then trued in the lathe chuck.
The hole should be bored out and tapped to fit the threads on the lathe spindle, and to have the grinding surface run true, this work should be done in a lathe by a machinist.
If an emery wheel mounted in a polishing head or lathe is at hand, this can be easily accomplished.
If only a lathe is required, the machine would be complete as now described, but the other attachments illustrated will greatly add to its usefulness and the owner will be well repaid by making them.
How to Make a Wood Lathe A strong, substantial lathe in which wood and light metal articles may be turned can be made by carefully following the description below and the detailed drawings of the parts.
On to this lathe a sort of chuck is screwed, and to the chuck the block c is made fast by screws, bolts, or pins.
The outer surface of the barrel is commonly polished upon a dry grindstone, but it is better finished, and less dangerously to the workman, at a turning lathe with a slide rest.
The pieces are left thicker than they should be; and when dried, are finished on the lathe with iron tools.
E is the fast and loose pulley for putting the lathe into and out of geer with the driving shaft.
This lathe B moves upon an upright shaft e, and is actuated by a twisted band passing from the main shaft, round the rigger f.
The spindle i of the lathe turns by similar means to the last, but slower; only ten turns per minute will be sufficient.
From this drum a strap passes over the rigger b, which actuates the axle of the lathe A.
Thus, the brass most esteemed by turners at the lathe contains from two to three per cent.
It is polished on the lathe with chalk and water, or vegetable oil, and finished by friction with flannel.
These are made of a much finer wire, coiled into a compact spiral, round a wire of the size of the pins, by means of a smalllathe constructed for the purpose.
Situated in the hundred of Larkefield, in the lathe of Aylesford, near the river Medway.
Clamp a temporary back centre to the lathe bed, and let it carry a pin in the vertical plane through the lathe centres, and let this pin exactly fit the hole in the bar.
The lathe is turned slowly by hand, and the glass pushed gradually into the most central position; it is then pressed tight against the chuck by the back rest, a bit of wood being interposed for obvious reasons.
The lathe may run rather faster than for turning cast iron of the same size.
When any loose dust is removed the articles may be scratched in the lathe without appreciable further loss.
The two dies are slightly ground together on the lathe with emery and oil and are then polished, or rather the convex die is polished--the other one does not matter.
This is put in the lathe and pushed into the mouth of the bottle, the latter being supported by the hands.
Place the disc of iron or lead on the lathe mandrel or in the chuck, and set the slide rest so that it is free to slide up or down the lathe bed.
Instead of a grinding machine a lathe may be employed.
A train of wheels E F G H K (ordinary cast lathe change wheels) communicate any desired ratio of motion to the tool-holder, which simply consists of two pins projecting vertically downwards from the spokes of wheel K.
The stoppers are ground in on the lathe before the tubes are attached to the fall tubes.
In general, as the lathe is rotated by turning the mandrel the image of the illuminated cross wires will be observed to rotate also.
I made many trials by this method, using a watchmaker's lathe and pressing up the work by a weight and string, which passed over a pulley.
It is probable that he had great skill in hand work and that learning to use a lathe would have been a great and tedious effort for him.
But the most remarkable feature is the fact that no lathe was used in forming any part--all staffs, pinions and pivots being filed by hand.
This is simply extraordinary when it is pointed out that a little dead center lathe is the simplest machine in the world, and he could have made one in less than a day and saved himself weeks of hard labor.
The blue of the heavens suffused her, the air was whirling in her hollow head; she had but to yield, to let herself be taken; and the humming of the lathenever ceased, like an angry voice calling her.
Then she would see her father work his lathe (to his great delight), and begged he would make her some cups for eggs, as being more to our present fashion than eating them from one's hand.
On his lathewas the egg cup he had been turning for Moll; he snapped it off from the chuck and flung it in the litter of chips and shavings, as if 'twere the emblem of his past folly.
Then they are turned on a lathe until they are perfect though rough cylinders.
These are polished, first by rubbing sand over them to take off the saw and lathe scratches, and then with three different kinds of grit.
By means of my father's excellent foot-lathe I turned out the spinning-tops in capital style, so much so that I became quite noted among my school companions.
He had a variety of tools, and a lathe for turning chair-posts.
Illustration: POLE LATHE OF 1800] The First Government Contract.
A segment is placed in a lathe--with the nerve center resting on the lathe point.
One of these is then roughly turned down on a lathe until it is round and slightly tapers all the way from one end to the other.
These are placed in a lathe and gouged out, forming the pin in the rough.
The lathe employed is the ordinary polishinglathe with a horizontal spindle, and is worked with a common foot-treadle; steam-power is used by some firms for moving these lathes, but it is by no means the usual custom at present.
The disc, or other form of metal, is taken and fixed in the lathe with the aid of holdfasts, a chuck or mould of the desired pattern being provided, upon which the disc is turned by the tools referred to.
When the work is polished at the lathe it will gradually become enveloped in grease, &c.
Here the lathe was made to supply the place of the small hand machine, the speed of which soon brought about the object in view.
They prepared the red clay of Bradwell in a far more scientific manner than had any Staffordshire potters prior to that date, and by the lathe they turned forms far thinner than could be done on the wheel.
Machine shops doing principally lathe work as a matter of course use a larger percentage of their contracted power than shops doing lathe and bench work with the same hands.
Upon arriving at this stage--unless work is plentiful--they are usually removed from the lathe and set labouring, or otherwise transferred or discharged as too expensive for the work.
Happening to enter the die shed while the job was in the lathe I was told by the machineman that no alteration had been authorised.
We illustrate a foot lathe constructed by the Britannia Manufacturing Company, of Colchester, and specially designed for use on board ships.
There are hundreds of drill press hands who cannot operate a milling machine, lathe hands who know nothing of planer work, and so on.
Of a tool: To cut deeply into the work because ill set, held at a wrong angle, or the like, as when a lathe tool is set too low and so sprung into the work.
A punch for making indentations or dots in a piece of work, as for suspension between lathe centers, etc.
I did not have to work very hard now, for my business was rather the laying out work for my men, and sometimes a nice job which needed my hand on my lathe at home, or in some other delicate affair that I could bring home with me.
I would work at the lathe or the bench and she would read to me.
Then it is put into a lathe where it is turned on the outside and a hole bored right through the centre.
For all these things need to be turned in lathes and if you have ever watched a metal-turning lathe at work you will have noticed that the tool which actually takes a shaving off the article being turned tends to get hot.
For surely, if he had exchanged the old life and got nothing in return but work at a lathe all day at tenpence an hour, the change was a bad one.
Solitary work is favorable to meditation; therefore, while Harry was shaping things at his lathe undisturbed by no one, his brain was at work.
You can't make much glory out of a mercenary lathe nor out of a dressmaker's shop, can you, Miss Kennedy?
This, Mr. Lord accomplishes by the following mechanism: Instead of driving the lathe from an ordinary countershaft, he introduces a pair of cones which will vary the speed of the latheas shown in Fig.
They are drawn in tight enough to enable them to keep their position while being turned in the lathe when the projecting points are turned down level with the cone of the body.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lathe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
