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Machines

Lathes, machining centres, grinders and the parts inside them: spindles, guideways, drives and what makes one machine stiffer than another.

Live: 1
Pages planned: 42
Subsections: 6
Release phase: Phase 2 months 3–9

Live pages

03 Selection and acceptanceThe ballbar test (ISO 230-4)Checking a CNC machine by running it round a circle against a telescoping bar: what the ballbar measures, ISO 230-4 and its terms, how the test is run, how backlash, reversal spikes, squareness, servo mismatch and scale errors show on the plot, and what follows.

Section map

The subsections of this section and the number of pages planned in each. Pages go live in section order, all on the same template.

3.1Lathes0/7
3.2Milling machines and machining centres0/6
3.3Grinding and finishing machines0/6
3.4Other machines0/5
3.5Machine components0/12
3.6Selection and acceptance1/6
- The ballbar test (ISO 230-4)

In production 1 of 42 planned pages are live. The figure on each subsection is pages live / pages planned.