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I am making a threaded 1"-14 thread for a tool for work. Doing this on my mini lathe is a slow process! I was about 70% through(by the size not time) when I accidentally made my adjustment in with the cross slide too far in. To make matters worse the lathe was going probably a touch too fast. It stripped the top pinion gear on the leadscrew reverse bar. I have two ordered, would like to keep them plastic so I have a failure point thats easy to replace. Now on to the question, the lathe effectively "jumped time". My thoughts about picking up the thread would be to hand center the tool in the through of the thread, then engage the half nuts, then manually place the thread counter on one of the numbers I am supposed to be using? I'm sure I will have to take some air cuts/VERY light cuts to properly pick the thread up since it probably wont be perfectly centered to what it was before?
Last thing, a guy at work has a harbor freight big die kit. He might have the correct die, I'm about .020-.025" away from target I would imagine the die should be able to handle that. I would imagine that would go much faster than .0005-.001" cuts.
Thanks in advance!
Last thing, a guy at work has a harbor freight big die kit. He might have the correct die, I'm about .020-.025" away from target I would imagine the die should be able to handle that. I would imagine that would go much faster than .0005-.001" cuts.
Thanks in advance!