Lower feed rates helped tremendously! Now I need to find something to improve my patience! I just have to keep myself calm and not rush, remembering that lower feed rates will make a better part.
Last week I make a threading tool, and quickly realized that without a thread dial I have no real chance of catching the same thread. I ordered a dial, and it came a few days ago.
My buddy blew the belt on his four wheeler, and got shreds stuck in the clutches. He didn’t believe me that he wouldn’t get the pieces of rubber out without disasembling the clutch. After putting it back together with a new belt, he realized that there was still rubber inside the clutch. We looked online, and found the specs for the clutch puller. They can be had for $35 online, but I decided that this was a great project for the lathe!!
I’m sorry, I did not take pictures during the process, I really wanted to focus on what I was doing.
This is a fairly simple part, and the pictures speak for themselves as to what it is. The only thing that can not be seen in the picture is that under the hex, is a 5/8-11 thread. The nut stuck up 1/6 proud and I welded the two together, than faced it off.
The HSS threading tool I made works, but I think I may be a little off on my grind despite my best efforts and checking with a gauge very often. I think I will get a set of carbide insert for threading to improve my threads. However, I had a 3/4-16 nut that I tested it with and it works well with little play.
I also made a big rookie mistake, I left the stock the length it was. The part is 7” long, the stock was “15 or so. I should have cut it down 6” or so, I lost a lot of rigidity and got quite a bit of chatter. I had to go very light on the thread cuts, because of the deflection. I will admit that I was also lazy in not cutting it down, I realized the issue after 2-3 roughing passes. I should have cut it down, but live and learn.