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Thanks for the replies, I will give 2.25mm pitch a try. Ted

Should be quick and easy, if your leed screw doesnt have a keyway, then a thicker gear is needed. One of my lathes, same size leadscrew as yours,...

Every place is dangerous, one way or another. Isn't Turkey on an active fault line? You pick your risk. I wouldn't be surprised if people in OK...

I have heard about many devastating tornadoes in OK. What I don't understand is, why not declare that area dangerous for urban development and forbid...

Rough visual... Hand wheel on the right would be for fast Ram movement, then the arm could be used when more leverage is needed, need a way to...

Use 2.25mm pitch. The error is only 0.0016" per rev.

I've posted this before, but for this very application I use the Superdrill from Australia. It does require the original hole placement to be...

Not really. Read this post I wrote a while back, it will probably answer your questions without derailing this thread: ...

I thought the hot stuff was pretty exciting, but damn that's an awful lot of cold pipe to dodge!

Will a Budweiser work as well :)

Because they deserve it!

Been there-done that with cold steel, just as exciting, but never again------- http://youtu.be/lkqpEXy0frE

Tornadoes don't happen everywhere. It takes flat land for a funnel to build up. It's cause by horizontal rolling wind that then turns vertical. That...

Huh....Steel mills dangerous?Who knew?;)

Sir John, retired must have a different meaning on your side of the pond.;)

As a reminder of the energies involved in these storms,consider the Truck found near Joplin,Mo after an F5 hit there- IIRC that truck was...

Perhaps the building code there should require a "tornado room". Yes, the rest of the house might get destroyed, but a shelter tied to the...

Or buy some brass hose ends and solder or thread them on to your parts.

Is the bottom of that chart the feed rates available? I think I see an 0.088 feed rate, which is pretty close to 11.5 (0.087).

I just last week made two 5/8" male hose connectors and used 11 TPI. They worked fine. I checked the thread on the store-bought connector, and...

Thanks, it's an Atlas 10F with 1 1/2-8 threads. Just spin it on until it stops, right? :)

Barely knowing the difference between a stepper and servo, could they be viewed as incremental (stepper) and absolute (servo). I have read servos...

I'm about 70 miles north of the Moore tornado today and 35 miles from the Carney tornado yesterday. I had an AT&T tech here this afternoon trying to...

John,why do you hate the French so much? :)

Yea caveBob I would be glad to help ya out, I learned a couple things, this was my first time machining a back plate to mate up with a counter bore....

I used to have to deal with this when I was an ISP. I usually would load one of the recommended cleaners if just a small problem but found that if...

True story, neighbor up the road a little did hit a state lottery. won about 3 million before taxes.Built a pole barn and got all new yard equipment...

Try to keep up with Paul Allen and buy an ICBM as he just acquired a V-2! http://www.kgw.com/news/208064191.html

Tornado damage is pretty much never anything but a big disaster, often with death and hardship. There isn't anything much to be said about it but...