Thank you. Surprisingly not as much as I thought I would. Final diameter doesn't matter to me much so I would just turn down the mistake & try again. It did take me a bit to figure things out.
When I first got that knurler, I jumped straight to practicing on Ti 6-4. I fact I don't think I've ever knurled alumn with it, only Ti & SS303.... oh and delrin as an experiemet that came up during a discussion here. I probably suck at knurling alumn, haha.
Actually, the very first pic I posted, the top piece was a "mistake". Both pieces were done with tbe same exact pitch wheels but I didn't notice that top one had double tracked. I usually stop to check for that after engagement & before traversing the workpiece.
This is the only case of double tracking I have not scrap. I tried to duplicate it once intentionally & I "failed" more times than not double tracking (the proper tracking was the failure in that case, lol).
Anyways, I liked the way that "mistake" looked. I turned it into a ice pick & gave to Matt @ QMT. But don't tell him it was a mistake! Lol . Well it's not in my book, it's unique, one of a kind, & I will never make another one like it.
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