04-29-2017, 10:49 AM
I know most lathes are capable of cutting more threads than the manufacturers claim. I'd like to figure out every possible thread my lathe can cut. My lathe has kind of a strange gear configuration in that it seems to have more gears than other lathes. I've seen people create spreadsheets that will do the calculations but I haven't been able to figure out how to do that. Anybody ever created such a spreadsheet? Below is an image of the gear train of my lathe. The drawing shows the gears set up for 8TPI.
Lead screw TPI is 8.
Ed
Lead screw TPI is 8.
Ed