Recent content by KelseyS

(hammer) Hi Folks, I finally had the opportunity to try your suggestions on thread chasing with my Jig. I am impressed with my results. If I can, I will include pix. Fit together like hand and glove. A bit more fine tuning and I will be a happy camper. I am having difficulty in posting...

Kym, Mick. I must be in the right ballpark. My measurement with my method came to 20mm with 10 complete turns divided by 500 gives me .04 mm per mark very close to .05 of Kyms or if i figured correctly .001875 inches. Since my method was pretty crude and the tool was made in Australia i will...

Thank you Mick. Math and I do not have a friendly relationship. I was going to figure it out the hard way. Attach a vertical piece of paper to head stock and a pencil in the jig, set the dial to zero and make a one turn arc on the paper and measure the length and divide by 50. Probably not...

Thank you Kym. I think you have answered some of my questions. I may in fact be cutting too deep. Another of my problems is getting the tenon, spigot and the mortise, recess size accurate. I am using a new double taper cutter from Baxter. I have a ring dial that i set to zero when i get the...

Thanks Mick, i have been turning the cutter around 3k. I will try slower speeds. I have several species of wood avail such as, pecan, persimmon, fig, olive, sepele, several varieties of fruit wood. I will look for sycamore and beech. Kelsey S

Hi Folks, I have acquired Carba tec thread cutting jig and had to modify it to fit my Jet 1642 Lathe. I have had some moderate success in threading but I lack much info to make a satisfactory, to me, decent thread. I have very limited info. I had to replace the four flute cutter with a Baxter...