Capstan Lathe.

If you have a semi skilled worker and a lot of project orders to work with for small workpieces. capstan lathe is found to be the best. Capstan Lathe is a semi automatic lathe. in this case a collet chuck is used to hold the workpiece.

The tools for turning, facing, drilling, boring, threading, chamfering etc are fixed on indexable tool head which hold up to six tools.Once the setting of all the tools is over even a small child can operate the machine. you have to pull the lever index and change the tool and then proceed to next step.As such lathe works at very high speed coolant is used to reduce the temperature of the workpiece

Such lathes are used for large scale production of smaller workpieces only.