Salt shaker

Sean, looks good, As a self taught lathe operator, I get a sense of achievement when I get a internal and external thread to fit. I think I would have made the thread on the top bit a little shorter, less twiddling in the kitchen when it comes to refilling, but there's nothing wrong as it is.

Ian S C

Over 500 views and only one other reply! I would suggest the thread is almost entirely disfuncional!

No pics, post meandering, no directions to any pics, no size, no material info. Only a few might know or work out that the pics are in an album and the thread at the start of the thread is the lid thread and not the posting!

Lou

sy design. The removable filler should have been at one of the grooves, so no joint would be seen. One hole is often used for a salt cellar or the holes spell a large 'S' for salt In a bigger hole size than for a pepper pot. It should be stainless - damp salt attacks all sorts of metals and a high chrome and nickel gra

de of stainless is even likely required (even silver salt cellars need to be lined to prevent corrosion)

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C'mon, help us out if you want some hi

nts.

Looks alright for a first attempt. Making the first is a pain. If you were to make ten at a time, the method would soon be refined and, as they say, 'practice makes perfect'. You will get used to the lathe - and the cutters, speeds, depth of cut, feed rate, etc - and as experience increases you will wonder why that first project took so much effort?

Soo, it was the thread which was lousy, not your salt shaker.

Sean, now make the pepper shaker, the exercise is to make the screwed tops interchangable, and the two shakers a pair.

Ian S C

Might attract more comment with a photo (well done Sean):

Sean has 70 photos in his albums so users are probably put off by the thought of a long search... as it happens it was the first.

Neil

Nothing like jumping in at the deep end for me. My first lathe cut thread had to be good enough to withstand 200 Bar air pressure. I think I used Titanium for that one as its what I had in stock. The second one only 60-70 Bar in brass.

Good achievement for someone who has only had the lathe for a short time and much of that was making it work, especially considering the number of people who are nervous to cut threads at all.

I'm sure given his collation Sean is well aware of the problems of damp salt and keeps it as I do on the storage radiator/Aga/woodstove. Actually I have taken to getting extra salt sachets at the canteen to save some of that bother. You can always make the holes bigger and call it a sugar shaker

Odd things are happening... it was reporting 70 photos on Sean's account earlier, now only 20?

Neil

Thanks Sean, I thought it was a website wobbly!

There's nothing wrong with having lots of pictures, but if you want to use them in a thread use the black 'camera' icon in the top row of the 'add post' box.

Neil

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 10/02/2017 14:37:33

Bazyle Dried peas added to the salt absorbs moisture

Roy

Or dried rice, works for me

You need free-running table salt with 1% sodium ferrocyanide in it.

What was the brand with a blue label and boy pouring salt on the tail of a chicken?

Cerebos

And baking soda but these things can only absorb so much water and Devon just ain't that dry in winter. I'm not sure what strange thing put 'collation ' in my earlier post. I did of course mean 'location' which I believe may be even wetter than mine.

No challenge, just a suggestion for presents for next Christmas.

Ian S C

looks bob on to me I hope my first go comes out as good