I've played a little with this kind of stuff and would suggest you try using an oven or heat gun instead of a flame.
All the machine work can be done on the Legacy -----Original Message----- From: Harvey Matyas <hmatyas0...@gmail.com> To: legacy-ornamental-mills <legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com> Sent: Fri, Aug 4, 2017 9:26 pm Subject: Re: Make a "Split Nut" I have not tried what they did in this video although someday I hope to try it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVW7Q469RnA On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Tim Krause <artmarb...@comcast.net> wrote: Fire probably gave it a nice case hardening! Hahaha Sent from BlueMail On Aug 4, 2017, at 1:41 AM, Bill Bulkeley <bulke...@mmnet.com.au> wrote: Don’t let them tell you there is no 5/8x 4 tap out there I own one I got it years ago on ebay unfortunately it went through my house fire but I don’t mind it will still cut nice soft delrin ok Bill -----Original Message----- From: 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills [mailto:legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com] Sent: Friday, 4 August 2017 12:28 PM To: Legacy Ornamental Mills Subject: RE: Make a "Split Nut" There might be a chance that a brass split nut wears and compromises the lead screw... then you have a bigger problem... I have sent several emails to suppliers of tooling for the metal industry, and all have said no to a 5/8-4, right hand, acme thread tap... for now I am giving up and will try to make the tap from some left over acme rod I have...I will post the progress... Joe -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
