06-23-2016, 08:00 AM
I may well take you up on the thread file Darren, I only have an imperial one and the 24tpi is not quite close enough. I think I'll have a go at it with a needle file under the magnifier first and see how I get on. I bought a m12x1mm intermediate tap today and cleaned up the internal thread in the chuck, it was only the first turn that was damaged and it cleaned up easily- almost too easlily to justify the $48 the tap cost me 
Hope I get some more use out of it in future. Closest feed rate on my lathe is .048 or something- can't remember exactly now, it's been more than 10 seconds since I looked.
At present I'm trying to get a dividing head crated up for a journey to some strange place on the other side of the continent as well as a mate's Land Rover with the clutch out of it taking up half my shed and a carport dismantled for repair after a tree fell on it, with hail forecast.
The Unimat will have to wait.
Hope I get some more use out of it in future. Closest feed rate on my lathe is .048 or something- can't remember exactly now, it's been more than 10 seconds since I looked.At present I'm trying to get a dividing head crated up for a journey to some strange place on the other side of the continent as well as a mate's Land Rover with the clutch out of it taking up half my shed and a carport dismantled for repair after a tree fell on it, with hail forecast.
The Unimat will have to wait.
Lathe (n); a machine tool used in the production of milling machine components.
Milling Machine (n); a machine tool used in the production of lathe components.
Milling Machine (n); a machine tool used in the production of lathe components.