Acme Threads

[dallen]

I did a little of both with the feeding of the tool bit, by that I mean I fed it straight in with the cross slide and at the 14.5 angle of the compound and didn't really see that the lathe was being over worked, anyway it handled the cut both ways.

I know that it really shouldn't matter if the bit is sharp, a thought that popped up while reading Tony's post was if it would help the cut if guy way to take a rotary tool with a stone and put a radius between the edges of the bit to help relieve the square edge??

I got sidetracked yesterday and didn't do anything with trying to cut the acme thread hopefully today I will be able to get something done with it. One reason I am wanting to do this not because I have a money making part to make, but I am fixing to take a short gunsmithing class at a local Votech and I know some Barrels were put in with Acme and Square threads 1885 Remington Rolling Block for one. And I have plans for a 1895 Winchester High Wall I want to do some day.