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Well, I knew this was going to be embarrassing.

See that spacer to the left of the lower gear in the picture below. The gear and spacer were swapped so it was indeed set up for metric threading. I'm going to go crawl in a hole now.

Ed

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Yea, that's better.

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(10-23-2013, 05:26 PM)EdK Wrote: [ -> ]Well, I knew this was going to be embarrassing.

See that spacer to the left of the lower gear in the picture below. The gear and spacer were swapped so it was indeed set up for metric threading. I'm going to go crawl in a hole now.

Ed



Yea, that's better.

Do you need to borrow a hole
John

Crawl in a hole , schmall in a hole, you found the cause, I applaud you!
(how's that for a suck up guys?)

I knew I smelled metric somewhere Ed. Maybe this will help you out.

(10-23-2013, 05:33 PM)doubleboost Wrote: [ -> ]

(10-23-2013, 05:26 PM)EdK Wrote: [ -> ]Well, I knew this was going to be embarrassing.

See that spacer to the left of the lower gear in the picture below. The gear and spacer were swapped so it was indeed set up for metric threading. I'm going to go crawl in a hole now.

Ed



Yea, that's better.

Do you need to borrow a hole
John

Thanks John

Ed

(10-23-2013, 05:38 PM)stevec Wrote: [ -> ]...
(how's that for a suck up guys?)

(10-23-2013, 05:40 PM)TomG Wrote: [ -> ]I knew I smelled metric somewhere Ed. Maybe this will help you out.

Those who haven't made a mistake haven't done anything !

Great news that you've solved the problem

Bugger - that doesn't solve my problem!

(10-24-2013, 05:30 AM)Mayhem Wrote: [ -> ]Bugger - that doesn't solve my problem!

Darren,

You could always blame me for jinxing your lathe.
But that doesn't solve your problem either.

Ed