T-Nuts

T shaped nuts for securing parts to a slotted table. These were milled on the lathe and are used on the drill table.

Milling in the lathe

Milling in the lathe

As mentioned in previous article about compound tables and cross vices, I’m interesting in milling to get better results than manual filing for my T-nuts. I realised that because of the small side of these nuts it would be possible

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Filing Nuts

Filing Nuts

I was lucky enough to visit the Model Engineer Exhibition at Ascot over the weekend and managed to attend one of the lectures by the chaps in the blue coats from the Society of Model and Experimental Engineers. The talk

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