Friday, July 11, 2008

Aruba beach attractions

Aruba is one of the prime hot locations situated in the Caribbean Sea. It has a picture like beauty and its resorts and amenities are more than excellent. If you are planning a relaxing and enjoyable holidays, come to Aruba. Aruba will prove a fantastic gateway for paradise for you. Forget the world behind you, by enjoying a drink in Aruba. Aruba is the most famous island in the Caribbean Sea. It is mainly famous for its white sandy beaches and marine tropical climate. Through out Aruba, cactus-grown landscape will welcome you.

The Aruba and Islands consists of many exotic beaches. Playa Hadikurari is a fantastic beach among the Aruba which is located on the north-western coast, south to the light house. It is very famous and sought after for its snorkels. Palm Beach is famous for its calm and cozy waters in Aruba and contains so many exotic and luxurious hotels having low heights. Another exotic beach among Aruba islands is Eagle beach. This beach of Aruba in Aruba Island is popular for its local community and this is a public beach. Plenty of parking spaces and Picnic tables below trees make this beach of Aruba islands outstanding. Another marvelous beach among the Aruba islands is Rodgers Beach. It is a very exciting location for people who like adventurous surfing through water. This beach offers complete shade and nice showers. This distinguishes it from the rest of the Aruba. Out of the many beaches in Aruba and islands the baby beach is very calm and filled with thin shallow water. So many children and swimmers would like to enjoy it because it is quite safe for them to swim there.

The southern coasts of Aruba islands are dangerous, with large sea waves. Most of the visitors won’t go there for their vacations and water sports. But it is famous for adventurous sports like surfing, and boogie boarding. The famous waves on which they make their adventures are Do Playa, Waricuri, and Andicuri. There are many places in Aruba one shouldn’t miss to visit. The capital city is Ornajestad, it has a harbor, free of taxes. The archeological museums, and numismatic museums are always a major crowd puller. There are many wonderful luxurious apartments for people holidaying in Aruba. Some of the exotic apartments are coral Reef Studio, Coral Reef beach Villa etc. these two apartments promise ultimate luxuries for you and your family when you enjoy holidays. You can get individual cabins as well. All the cabins are equipped with luxurious amenities.

You can have anything for your personal needs in these villas and apartments. They will offer tea, champagne, milk, coffee, online connection for 24 hours a day and everything to keep you comfortable. In Aruba the beaches are equipped with latest loungers, chairs and pool side tables to enjoy drinks. Some of these items mentioned above will come as a compliment when you stay there.

Friday, July 4, 2008

Uses of Lathe


Lathes have a wide range of uses in the modern era. Let’s see the uses of lathes in various fields one by one.

Diamond turning: The diamond turning is a complex and high precision multistage process carried out using a range of CNC (computer numerical control) lathes. It is equipped with synthetic or natural diamond tipped elements for precision cutting. It is used to make optical elements used in telescopes, instruments for scientific research, TV projectors, and missile guidance systems etc, from crystals, glass, metals, acrylic and other materials.

Metal spinning: Metal spinning is also known as spin forming. It is a process in which a metal tube or disc is rotated in high speed to produce decorative items and commercial items. A series of CNS lathes are used for this. It is used in the crafting of lighting articles, decorative items for house hold and beautiful urns. The industrial applications of this process are crafting of cones of rocket, gas cylinders, cook wares, brass bells etc.

Metal working: Metal working is another important field where lathes are widely used. Metal work creates individual delicate parts to form large structures like ships, bridges and jewellery and oil refineries. It requires skills as well as large number of specified tools. It has a vast application in jewellery design, trade, art and industrial applications.

Milling machines: In most of the Milling machines the lathe used is CNC type and is having wide range of applications. It is usually used to create tool paths which are complex and need high precision and accuracy. Milling machines are used for various tool path operations such as drilling, rebating, routing, planning and slot cutting.

Woodturning: The process of turning wood is used to create many intricate designed products on wood by using various kinds of lathes. Woodturning is different from other woodwork processes. In this the wood piece will rotate, keeping the cutting tool stationary to shape the wood to different shapes. Spindle turning and faceplate turning are the two different methods for turning the wood piece.

Woodworks: Wood works was popular from the ancient times. Egyptians and Chinese are the two civilizations, who used woodwork in drawings, furniture and even on tombs. Lathes are used to shape wood for chairs, beds, chests, stools etc. In wood work the role of lathes is indispensable. There are various types of lathes exclusively developed and used in woodworks industries.

Mandrel: The patent Mandrel was designed by William Denham Verschoyle. It is a set of lathe accessories for cutting and turning of wood using hands. The items can be used to work on metals also. It is very easy to mount wood on it and it requires not much space for its operation. But commercially, the machine was not a success.

Segmented turning: Segmented turning of wood uses lathe to shape many small wood pieces. Later all the pieces are glued together in some pattern to form wonderful objects. It is also known as polychromatic turning. Segmented turning process is used to give wonderful visual effects for a single object. The cutting and reassembling of various pieces need high patience and skills. Examples of objects created by this method are pepper and salt mills, rolling pins, pens and fancy pots and vessels.