good morning all,
I'm currently working on an old motorcycle im restoring and have yet to come across an actual answer to any of my questions regarding brass so i thought this would be a good place to go.
1- is there a general rule of thumb on using home made brass nuts on brass rod? This would be for shifter and brake linkage paired with 2 RH M8 hiem joints, the only reason being that a LH die is crazy expensive.
I'm mostly concerned with safety on this one, i can reuse the OG parts, but brass looks so nice with black and polished aluminum.
2- tapping & thread cutting with a die.. the lathe i have access to is older than dirt, and very poorly maintained as it has little use in our shop (I have been given approval by my plant manager for government work as long as im off the clock) that being said, i'm having a terrible time with this. I've always been told stock size should be what ever thread size your shooting for before cutting (M8=.3145 stock and so on) but i found that cutting about .015 off of it prior to a die makes it much easier as im doing this by hand, thoughts on safety of this?
for anyone asking, im using 360 half hard brass
thanks in advance for any clarification on these questions