The shape and geometry of the lathe tools depend upon the purpose for which they are employed.

车床刀具的形状和几何参数取决于它们的使用目的。

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Used for installation tool and drive lathe tools for vertical, horizontal or oblique movement.

用于安装车刀并带动车刀作纵向、横向或斜向运动。

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LW—2 bench style universal cutter grinder is used for grinding normal cutter such as various kingds of milling cutters, reamers, lathe tools, planning tools, screw tap and shaving drill ect.

LW-2 台式万能刀具刃磨床主要用于刃磨普通刀具， 如各类型铣刀、铰刀、车刀、刨刀、丝攻、锪钻等。

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The lathe is a tool for making tools--it makes manual crafting tasks easier, allowing for increased production and lower costs.

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It's so useful that five out of our top twenty tools--the chisel, the lathe, the saw, the scythe and the sword--are themselves forms of the knife, specialized for different circumstances.

FORBES: The 20 Most Important Tools Ever

The lathe, which is essential to make many of the more complex tools on the Forbes list, is a mechanism for rotating work to be shaped with a knife.

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