Although I'm 55, and have played with mechanical stuff all my life, I'm fairly new to the machining world.
My first lathe and mill I got from my 92 year old neighbor when he moved out. He gave me his lathe (South Bend heavy 10) and I bought his mill (and Enco labeled Rong-Fu 30). Once I got...
Essential right angle trig formula:
the Tangent of an angle is = the length of the leg Opposite of the angle measured divided by the length of the leg adjacent to the angle
Tan = Op/Adj
Given:
Tan 41= .8693
adj = .1125
We can re-write it as:
.8693=.1125/Adj
or...
Adj * .8693 = .1125
so...