The Industrial Precision Lathe (IPL) is an EV tier multiblock for cutting and shaping various materials on a rotating axis. The IPL is a direct upgrade from the singleblock lathe because it runs at 400% speed, only uses 80% of the EU/t normally required, and offers 8 parallels per Item Pipe Casing tier.
Construction
The IPL has one tiered component. The pipe casings determine the number of parallels. The glass can be any tier and has no effect on the operation of the machine. Buses/hatches may replace any solid steel machine casing anywhere on the structure. Multi-amp and laser energy hatches are not supported, but there can be multiple regular energy hatches for overclocking. Use the Multiblock Structure Hologram Projector to visualize/build the structure with subchannels "item_pipe" and "glass" to specify the tier of each of those components.
Structure
Controller: Front bottom center
42-55 Solid Steel Machine Casing
32 Any Tiered Glass
9 Grate Machine Casing
Wallshared IPLs4 Item Pipe Casing (Tiered)
1+ Energy Hatch: Any steel machine casing
1 Maintenance Hatch: Any steel machine casing
1+ Input Bus: Any steel machine casing
1+ Output Bus: Any steel machine casing
Wallsharing
IPLs may wallshare each of their sides to save on casings and buses/hatches. Sharing the middle three layers with another one directly overhead and upside down is the most effective and highly recommended because it shares all the glass, grate machine casings, and item pipe casings. Do not forget to rotate and flip the controller of the top one with a wrench. No recipe uses more than 1A of power so it is possible to share one energy hatch between two machines.
Usage
The IPL is a direct upgrade from the singleblock lathe because it runs at 400% speed, only uses 80% of the EU/t normally required, and offers 8 parallels per Item Pipe Casing tier, as seen in the following table.
