custom tap

[kenne]

(05-29-2014, 08:32 PM)chucketn Wrote: If you build something from a drawing, do you change specs to what ever you want, or do you make the part to plan? My friend is making an engine to the designers plan. That's why a 1/4-40.
I'll be the first to admit I'm still at the "that's good enough" stage. I'm getting better, and my setups and tooling is improving. I made the tap as close to spec as I could get. I made a nut with it to use as a gage for the screw thread I need to make. The screw will mate with the tapped hole made by the tap I made... Whooh, I'm getting dizzy...

Chuck

It's hard to decide which is more satisfying , building something from a blueprint (drawing) , or from your head . Either way the most important part of the job is doing it , making something from nothing is always worth doing , even if it doesn't work (it's happens ) . The joy is in the work ............