Thread Cutting on the Lathe, Part Two - Grinding the Tool

[TomG]

(08-04-2013, 03:03 PM)dallen Wrote: why is it that the inserts that I have, have no flat on the point.

DA

Probably so they can cut finer pitched threads. For instance, the tool for a 28 pitch thread would only have a flat about .005" wide, if any.

Tom