Two taps
My latest mini-project was supposed to be a simple sawing and screwcutting exercise of some aluminimum rods. It proved to be a little more involved than I realised when I found that the thread was 2BA. I purchased a suitable
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Tags: Die, Screw Cutting, Taps
Thread experts?
A few years back, I went into Clerkenwell Screws, passed the man behind the counter a bolt from a second hand table and asked if he had any nuts for it. Almost immediately he came back with the comment, “oh
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M2 Taps and Dies
As mentioned in a previous blog about the arrival of the mini-lathe, my first project is a cutoff disk mandrel for a dremel like drill. For this I needed an M2 tap and die set which arrived in the post
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Tags: Cutoff Disk, Dremel, Fadmaker, M2, Mandrel, Metal Work, Mini Drill, Screw Cutting, Taps
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
