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DeanDK:
Hi guys,

I thought I would share my experience in making small handmade screws. The screw is made from water hardening silver steel (drill rod) has a M1.0 thread, Ø2mm head and a total length 3mm.

The lathe I used for turning is a Peerless watchmakers lathe, and the slot was cut with a 0.3mm slitting saw in a Sincere watchmakers lathe.



Sorry I struggled capturing the blueing process this time as my head would get in the way of the camera as I was trying to see what I was actually doing, or I had my blueing pan off camera or out of focus.  :bang:
 
Anyways hopefully this is useful to someone  :proj: 

Have a great day.
 

SwarfnStuff:
Thanks for posting Dean,
       Good to watch you at work with steady hands doing stuff that is small / tiny. I'm sure I would need more than one attempt to get anywhere near the result you have.
Congrats,
           John B

speedibee:
what is  blueing ?

awemawson:
Forming a protective and decorative finish on a steel item, usually by oxidisation but also sometimes using selenium salts

jcs0001:
Dean:

Thanks for posting - very interesting.

John.

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