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Old 01-30-2020, 7:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Dgr1dman View Post
I had a request from an engineering grad student once to cut an adjustment assembly (+/- 1” dia.) for his project at 156 tpi.

I explained to him that would be a feed rate, not a thread! His response: “No, it’ll be fine, I drew it out on CAD and it’ll be fine!”

After showing him a trial cut, he agreed that 40 tpi would be better!

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