{"id":1778,"date":"2014-03-09T15:09:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T22:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2014-03-09T15:09:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T22:09:25","slug":"learning-to-lathe-threading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=1778","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Lathe – Threading"},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted a little while back about picking up a small lathe, and working with it on various things, but something I hadn’t tried yet was threading something.<\/p>\n

The lathe has interchangeable gears that can connect the chuck with the carriage, so you can have the carriage move at a known rate relative to the chuck turning. With that, you can use the lathe to cut threads.<\/p>\n

I thought I should give that a try, and using a bit of scrap steel bar I picked up from the excellent OnlineMetals.com, I thought I’d try to make a “bolt” to match a random nut I had sitting in a drawer in my work bench. Here are the results!<\/p>\n

\"IMG_0348\"<\/a>Honestly, I ended up cutting the whole thing a little too narrow, so the nut is a *little* loose, but it still threads nicely, it’s not too loose that it will slide over the threads, so I think for a first try, it’s a pretty good result.<\/p>\n

Granted also that this is an externally cut thread, which is much easier than cutting the inside. But I do have a bit more scrap bar stock, so I do plan to try to make a matching pair of an internal cut and an external cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I posted a little while back about picking up a small lathe, and working with it on various things, but something I hadn’t tried yet was threading something. The lathe has interchangeable gears that can connect the chuck with the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}