slide rest

British  

noun

1. engineering a stack of platforms that sits on a lathe saddle and carries a tool post, and is adjustable in rotation and at right angles by a lathe operator

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slide rest

The Americans had no choice but to leave trails in the snow as unambiguous as diagrams in a book on ballroom dancing—step, slide, rest—step, slide, rest.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

This lathe is made with a simple tool rest as shown in the engravings or with a compound slide rest.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

The lathe has an elevating slide rest self-acting feed traverse and self-acting cross feed, both feeds being operative in either direction.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

In Maudslay’s slide rest, the tool clamp shown in Fig.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

If the lathe bed has raised Vs there are usually provided two special Vs for the tailblock to slide on, the slide rest carriage sliding on two separate ones.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

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