Best Yet Knurling Tool

[TomG]

(11-09-2012, 08:14 PM)petertha Wrote: I'm curious how you set this up? I think with the typical scissor style, you clamp down the main nut after establishing pattern tracking, so it puts equal pressure on both knurl wheels. The big $ toolpost kind like attached pic appears to do this same action with opposed threads on a tension knob.

But how do you set both knurl wheels the same depth simultaneously with what looks like independant screws or whatever on either side? Or is it a pre-set adjustment thing, then use the carriage feed in?

All you do is rough center the tool and then run the knurls against the stock, snug up the locks and feed each knurl in an equal amount with a hex key. Normally I can hit the depth in one pass, but it's been a while since I used it and it took two tries this time.

Tom