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Very nice old style look - looking forward to this build.I'm curious - where did you buy the aluminium ?I'm asking, because buying small amounts of new metal here in Denmark is almost impossible and if you do find any who will sell it in those size - the price will be almost as high as if I bought enough for a rather big production.
Next the 1.0mm pitch thread was cut, as there was not a lot of runout room I decided to use the internal indexable tool at the rear of the work and running the lathe backwards, that way it would move left to right and I could stop the lathe at my leasure and run at a decent speed for the carbide tip. Straight in method rather than bothering to angle the topslide.