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You really is a clever bugga.
I read all this stuff, have no idea what a lot of it is about, but still love reading it!
Could you not have just bought some threaded bar and then drilled the hole in the end, or did you want the bar to have a bit with no thread on it so as to keep it dead straight in whatever will be holding it?
I only used 8mm round bar because I had a little bit there in the "bits-bin" and typically a bolt is minimum 8.8 hardness so too hard to drill out.
a length of M8 studding could also have been used, but that would have been 1/2 the fun ;)
 
Oh yes we did:D.
The biggest items were the motorbike, chesterfield sofa with QA chair and club chair(?) fridge and freezer, washing machine, A bed that came apart so just pieces and a generator. then just clothes and a few small items of electrical nature. Loads of boxes of little bits and some are now in the loft space still to be opened 12yrs on:oops:.

The little box trailer has had the top cut off and is now our log trailer around the house.
The big trailer is now the garden shed:D.

J
Finkin abart it, from the Uk to Bulgarland is a heck of a trek!
We went to from Dorset to the Tarn 4 times a year until I was retired and we took the trailer at least 3/4 of these trips. So at least 24 times. Then just once a year until very recently. (2018). (retired in 2015).
 
...that Lathe-Boy escaped his chains yesterday and donned his best gimp mask safety-squint and made this little beauty (the dull thing, not the shiny things).

What is it? ...I hear you all ask.

It is an alignment tool. It is some 8mm bar stock that has been threaded and then counterbored with a 5mm hole.
Its purpose is to take the place of one of the index pins so that the receiving hole on the inner section of two telescopic tubes is drilled at exactly the right place and the little "pip" of the index pin can locate in the hole.
Without the lathe this would not have been easy at all.

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Did you screw cut it? Money well spent on the lathe my friend :)
 
Did you screw cut it? Money well spent on the lathe my friend :)
I have to confess that I "die-cut" it using a quality tailstock die-holder.
Only because... I could be certain of the result, and I would not have to pull the lathe apart to change the gearing.
Screw-cutting using the lead-screw will come.... in time.
Thanks for the kind thoughts.
 
Evening all....Tis lovely here nice n sunny :cool:
cold shower for me as I was covered in fibreglass dust from chopping out the rest of the flooring off the roofing job, having a hot shower seams to make you itch. Good job as there wasnt
any hot water :rolleyes: the misses used it all before I got home & she's buggered off away oot.
Ahhh nice n quiet in here with no telly on :D:D
 
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