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| bogstandard:
Darren, How did the little lathe cope? Any better than before? Bernd, What is life without a bit of humour now and then. Especially when you can slip it in without being noticed. Bogs |
| Darren:
Hi John, still not done much with it, these parts are very short... :ddb: :ddb: :ddb: But, I have to say it feels very smooth, even the crosslide which I know you didn't do much with. I will be making more use of it as this project goes on and will report back. It is showing me how worn my crosslide screw is on the bigger lathe. I must finish that project sometime. As these parts are 30mm dia SS I did do most of the work on the bigger lathe. Mainly because parting was going to be a pig, and it was. I don't think the little lathe would have coped. But I did face and true the thickness of the discs on the mini, Could have done it on the larger lathe with collets and stops, but I didn't. For this the little un coped just fine. Oh, btw the carrage lock was real handy, that worked a treat :thumbup: I have found a nice piece of slate to bolt it down to as well. That should help.... :ddb: :ddb: :ddb: |
| Darren:
Bogs, I bin readin your book and you linked this place http://www.jjjtrain.com/vms/library.html Now that will keep me out of trouble for days, :lol: I'm trying to read your build but now I'm distracted.... :coffee: |
| Darren:
Bogs, quick Q.. When you use metric threads in small sizes do you use coarse or fine pitches? |
| bogstandard:
Darren, If you read the posts on here you will find I have already made it known http://madmodder.net/index.php?topic=535.0 plus another one, very recently http://madmodder.net/index.php?topic=944.0 You will find that 99.999% of metric threads used are the coarse variety. Metric fine are few and far between. In fact I only own one metric fine tap, 4.5mm, and that is for cutting threads in the bottom of Ronson cigarette lighters for fitting the filling valve. Bogs |
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