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- Feb 16, 2014
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George,
There must be more to the blinking light scheme than a contact that causes the light to blink with each rotation of the leadscrew. My leadscrew rotates 16 times for each rotation of the thread dial so the blinking light would only work for certain thread pitches.
I do a fair amount of threading in both metric and Imperial so I added a dog clutch to my 7x12. The dog clutch automatically synchronizes for either thread type and does it in one spindle rotation so it's faster than a thread chasing dial.
Video of it in use here:
John
Whether or not the leadscrew dog clutch is useful for threading, it is definitely a useful and interesting accessory! Do you have information available on how you made one?