The Home Machinist!

Bill and Rich-- Ha! You have perfectly illustrated my confusion! :) I've seen pictures and drawings and descriptions of both methods. I could not reconcile them . . . I thought they were the same and I just didn't get it. I suppose nothing has changed. Am I beyond help? --Bill What Rich is showing ...

I have always thought it was just a way to compensate for a possibly not to accurately marked compound. As long as you don't go over 30 degrees you are fine, you could error several degrees in the other direction and cut a perfectly fine thread.
James

I ordered myself a Chinese die off Ebay. It should be here by Groundhog Day. I don't know a whole lot (okay, anything) about thread files. Looking them up. I am going to make a wild guess that it's not much fun fixing ten or fifteen fine threads with a file. Steve, just a square bar with a differen...

Enco used to stock the square thread files in both metric and sae, I have both and they are pretty handy for situations like yours.
James

Hope the recovery goes well.
James

Why not make a new screw and nut if you are going to that much trouble? That way you could get the correct tpi also.
James

If you really want to be frugal, run an old phonebook through the bandsaw, you have a lifetime supply of paper strips to hang up by the lathe and mill.
James

It has always been my understanding that there are some out there with a higher carbon content, but most are just mild steel.
James

As I read through your thread I was going to suggest ballizing, got to the end and Loco had beat me to it.
James

Russ, here is one that I read pretty regularly.
http://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve ... /f/9411043

Another that I used to read but have not been to lately.
http://www.homegunsmith.com/cgi-bin/ib3 ... 3ae731fb60&

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Harold

I was having the same trouble a while back, and that worked for me, have stayed logged in since.
James

I wonder what machine they were using, maybe a shaper or planer? Sure looks like a straight line cut on a flat surface to me.
James