Turning Techniques Unveiled: Elevate Your Lathe Skills!

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[@mightyOmouse]

@31:46 Continuous pattern pass would delfect the tool from the face as the tool aproaches the OD thus creating not quite straight face. Where alternate pattern pass creates perfect faces since the tool pressure is the same all the way in the cut.

[@mightyOmouse]

Use of these patterns depends on tolerances on the drawing, but yes, if the face for example is some sort of a sealing face, you would use alternate pattern. Or there are two faces that need to be parallel to each other.. and so on