Making Wooden Threads Homemade Tap and Screw Box
My Premier Project Plans: My Free Plans: Ever since making a tap and die a couple of years ago to make 1 threads I ve always wanted to make bigger threads. I made the die for that one from a nut with the cutting edges filed into it, with this new one I make a screw box with a homemade cutter. The nut for the scaffold screw is a very sloppy fit so that wouldn t work as a die because the screw that would be made with it would end up too thick and wouldn t fit the nut made from the tap. Recently when I made my leg vice I used a scaffold levelling screw which I couldn t find locally so I had to order one online, they were cheap at 16 but the shipping was nearly 25 alone, so I ordered two and that came to 60 all up. I thought the other one would come in handy for another project. Then I thought if I could make a wooden thread from that I could use them on all sorts of projects. I
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