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Offline Lew Hartswick

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Holding threaded rods
« on: February 23, 2013, 12:14:19 AM »
Here are a few fixtures I've made to hold threaded rods in the lathe and mill vise. The vise one just today.
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Offline Don1966

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Re: Holding threaded rods
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2013, 12:52:19 AM »
Lew your are just adding more items to my to do list, thanks.

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Offline zeeprogrammer

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Re: Holding threaded rods
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2013, 01:36:54 AM »
Nice fixtures.
Wish I'd seen this some time ago.  ;D
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Offline Ian S C

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Re: Holding threaded rods
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2013, 11:00:23 AM »
The way I do it is to take two nuts, and split a side of each of them, thread them on the bit to be turned so that one nut is at the front of the jaws, and the other at the back, tighten the chuck, and as long as sencible cuts are made, all is well.      Ian S C

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Re: Holding threaded rods
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2013, 12:04:37 PM »
The way I do it is to take two nuts, and split a side of each of them, thread them on the bit to be turned so that one nut is at the front of the jaws, and the other at the back, tighten the chuck, and as long as sencible cuts are made, all is well.      Ian S C

That's a good idea! I'll just go and cut some nuts ...  ;)

Offline Lew Hartswick

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Re: Holding threaded rods
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2013, 04:14:54 PM »
The way I do it is to take two nuts, and split a side of each of them, thread them on the bit to be turned so that one nut is at the front of the jaws, and the other at the back, tighten the chuck, and as long as sencible cuts are made, all is well.      Ian S C
May, I say MAY, tend to push off center a bit and will be darn difficult on the smaller sizes. :-)  And when
the nuts get big , BIG,  even with a slit will be pretty resistant to compression.  Otherwise a LOT simpler
to make. :-)
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Re: Holding threaded rods
« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2013, 12:27:50 PM »
One of the joys of having a small lathe like a peatol is that it's very easy to drill, tap and slit some blank collets to make thread holders.
the larger ones are ME 40tpi series. the smaller one is a BA thread


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Re: Holding threaded rods
« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2013, 01:40:26 PM »
If the nuts are a bit stiff to tighten, continue the cut across the diameter, and cut half way into the other side.  I didn't say it was high presision,  the job I use it on mainly is a bit of 24 mm threaded rod, its used in a screw jack for a bit of agricultural machinery that I help to produce, but I have used the method on smaller stuff.  A far as this thread it's a bit tongue in cheek :)
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