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I made a custom form tool to replicate the cross slide nut on my Clausing MK1 13x36.The threads are sharp like a v- thread, and should be blunt like an acme. Lucky for you, you're a resourceful hobby machinist and you have options. You can buy bronze flanged acme threaded nut blanks if you look hard enough, which is what I'd do, and machine to fit. Or you can go full smurftard and turn your own. It might turn out to be less effort to cut the internal acme than to source a suitable acme nut, but I am a wuss about those kind of deep, precise, and heavy inside thread jobs. I know I should smurf up and grow a pair, it would be good growth opportunity, but sometimes getting a project going means farming out a step or two... Anyhoo, I would not be keen on re-using that pre-worn backlash magnifier based on my presumptive assessment of one cell phone pic in an Internet forum. So there's a pile of salt to take it with.
You ever been threading and get into the rhythm only to fudge the next step?
Yeah, I was almost done and very happy with myself when I forgot to back the tool out and grabbed the saddle handwheel and gave it a rip.
That sound is stuck in my head to this day and I thought I destroyed the work and the cutter.
Got lucky and the cutter was undamaged, though my pride had a big hole in it.