Your giving me incentive to give it a try, I'm a bit leery of it.
I bought a thread wire set, and when it came out of the package it was a bunch of Pixel sticks, that came out of the pouch.
I’m confused about 0.003” being an aggressive cut. I haven’t cut threads but my small lathe (G0602 10x22) certainly takes plenty larger cuts turning. Are you advancing the cross slide or the compound? I must be missing something?
I was surprised, too. When I am nearer to the outside of the work, or working on something much smaller than 1" OD, I can easily make a .010" cut; I have a diameter machine, so a .010" cut reduces the OD by .020".I’m confused about 0.003” being an aggressive cut. I haven’t cut threads but my small lathe (G0602 10x22) certainly takes plenty larger cuts turning. Are you advancing the cross slide or the compound? I must be missing something?
in order to reduce the radius by .001"
Maybe a little bit of the confusion comes from this? If you want to reduce your diameter, you dial in half of what you aim for in reduction. If you are reducing the radius, your math looks correct to me.in order to reduce the diameter by 1 thou