Cutting an Internal Thread on the Atlas Lathe

[TomG]

(09-03-2013, 08:18 AM)dallen Wrote: my question is why pull the bit into the trailing face and not into the leading when making cutting depth adjustments??

David,

The reason I did it that way is because the Atlas isn't rigid enough to swing the compound to the left and extend the bar, and you can't swing it to the right and cut the thread on the backside of the bore because the chuck would unscrew, and I don't like trying to read the compound dial with it swung to the right rear. The set-up I used worked fine and produced a perfect thread, but is technically incorrect, so rather than take the grief on YouTube, I elected to re-shoot the video with the compound to the right rear. The first of two additional parts is uploading now and the second will follow shortly.

Tom