Lathe Guards: Enhancing Safety and Efficiency

May 25, 2023 / in Machine Safety Blog
Updated: 2024-05-10 TL; DR Lathes are dangerous!  Add lathe safety guarding such as a chuck shield, chip shield for the cross slide, and covers on the lead screw.  Also, don’t overlook the backsplash, tools falling off the headstock into the chuck, or the tailstock falling on your feet! Like any machine with exposed moving or…
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Lathe Guarding Is Easy With This Kit

August 30, 2022 / in Company News
Ferndale Safety’s lathe guarding kit makes it easy to safeguard your old machine. MONTREAL (August 30, 2022)– Ferndale Safety, a North American leader in machine guarding, has developed an online tool to choose the right safety guarding for lathes quickly and easily.  The kit will instantly convert any old lathe into a modern safeguarded lathe…
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