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| unc1esteve:
I just ordered this. http://www.bookdepository.com/Screw-cutting-Lathe-Martin-Cleeve/9780852428382 |
| Bangkok Mick:
--- Quote from: unc1esteve on July 03, 2013, 11:01:16 AM ---I just ordered this. http://www.bookdepository.com/Screw-cutting-Lathe-Martin-Cleeve/9780852428382 --- End quote --- Thanks for the tip Steve, living in Thailand and with free shipping worldwide I just placed an order for the same with a couple more on mini lathes. Cheers Mick |
| andyf:
Well worth the money. An invaluable reference book, containing just about everything you might ever ask about single point threading. Being written in the UK when Myfords were the standard model engineering lathe, it leans a bit towards those and imperial leadsscrews, but if you want to know how to cut metric threads with those (and vice versa) it will tell you 101 ways of doing it without a 127T gear for an exact conversion. Andy PS Mick, if you want to practise threading, PVC pipe is cheap. |
| Jonny:
Firstly theres no right or wrong way as long as it works. Its pretty much was I was inferring Vtsteam and Stilldrillin. You have books written by model engineers often self taught and then writing books, whos right. One thing for certain any production based practice would need quality work at quickest amount of time. I buy full form replaceable tips with relief already in them, no need to change any change wheels around I just dial it in with four knobs any pitch metric or imperial and would never ever contemplate looking at another lathe that I couldn't do that. |
| vtsteam:
I'm happy that commercial outfits have needs that can be fulfilled for their purposes, and share those techniques, and that self taught hobbyist engineers also share their experiences and methods, even writing books about those. Seems everybody can learn a few new tricks from someone in a different line of experience and equipment. There's nothing wrong with being self taught, nor apprenticing 40 years ago in a production facility. And nothing wrong with a treadle lathe using gravers, nor a CNC 5 axis machine or anything in between. Attitude is the important thing, I get tired of forums with people who start pounding home right and wrong according to their singular experience. |
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