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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Example Sentences

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 Literature

Back rest, a guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work, to steady it in turning.-

From Project Gutenberg

The pointer should be soft, and not a cutting tool, unless indeed it be set so high in the slide rest that it cannot cut.

From Project Gutenberg

But the body of the head may show true at the corners while the journals do not run true, and if this is the case we may further test the body of the head as follows: With the lathe slide rest at one end of the head we may set a pointer so that it will just pass on the flat of the cutter seat and make a mark when the slide rest is traversed along the lathe bed.

From Project Gutenberg

We then move the slide rest so as to bring the pointer to the journal end of the head; give the head a half a revolution on the centres and try the pointer on the flat of the cutter seat, and if it makes a mark of equal strength, then two faces of the head are equidistant from the axis of the head.

From Project Gutenberg