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Merry Christmas everybody and a Happy swarfmaking New Year.

Have you tried 0.6mm pitch?

T nuts are freely available from a few of our usual suppliers

As Noel says silicone rtv just spread a film in the lid, leave to cure and use the plus is its difficult to lose!

Sorry Franco your original posting was for a 1/4 bsf thread not a S7 multi position carriage stop.

+1for Jason you need razor sharp tools

Why do you find it necessary to screwcut a 5 ba thread??

Silver soldering is brazing

Just on the local news, Cambridge guided busway to close as they have safety concerns.

Can someone explain why I would get a personal message from Franco when I am not involved in this posting??

Edited By bernard towers on 23/12/2021 10:05:25

Don’t forget to anneal non ferrous and let down steel ones beforehand, makes life a lot easier!

When I have to do long knurls I get the knurls to get the correct pattern (timed together) which is not necessarily full depth and then traverse the length of the knurl then repeat a bit deeper till full pattern is achieved and use plenty of coolant to wash away debris. Having said that it’s not the easiest of jobs. Out of interest I have the lathe spinning at around 350 to 500 rpm depending on dia.

Try a little we 40 as a cutting lube it should stop cold welding on the tip.

Local libraries are full of them

The second toolpost which Thor mentions in his post is the version that I use on my Peatol on couldn’t live without it. Toolholders are cheap or you could make your own with a strip af Ali, I have 12!, for mine and they ate all loaded. Go for it.

Surely the sailing dingy wire is double wound so the use finer wire that accepts being bent round fittings more readily. The wire in the picture is Bowden pattern.

The club I used to belong to used wood circular saws with tc blades.

A visit to an industrial museum with a tape measure??

DPound to a pinch it’s tapered use a dremel  to clean ends to determine which end is the smaller of the two and bingo

Edited By bernard towers on 12/12/2021 12:32:41

I had my son laser cut my blanks and even then to make good clamps is a lot of work, you can see why they are so expensive to buy.