Help Threading Troubles
#21
Well, I knew this was going to be embarrassing. Blush

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. Blush Blush

Ed

   

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. Blush

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. Blush Blush

Ed



Yea, that's better.

Do you need to borrow a hole
John
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#23
Crawl in a hole , schmall in a hole, you found the cause, I applaud you! Thumbsup
(how's that for a suck up guys?) Blush
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#24
I knew I smelled metric somewhere Ed. Maybe this will help you out. Big Grin

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(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. Blush

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. Blush Blush

Ed



Yea, that's better.

Do you need to borrow a hole
John

Thanks John Rotfl

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

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

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#28
Those who haven't made a mistake haven't done anything !

Great news that you've solved the problem
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#29
Bugger - that doesn't solve my problem!
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(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. Big Grin
But that doesn't solve your problem either. 17428

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