Hi folks For your information I can confirm that the Legacy Tap that they still use to make the Split Nuts is about 7" long and was a Custom Made Unit according to Andy. Back then they were making a few thousand Split Nuts a year. Cheers Roger
Sent from TouchMail for Windows 10 [http://bit.ly/1PH8eIw] From: 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills Received: 09/08/2017 23:18:06 +01:00 To: Legacy Ornamental Mills ok, just finished making 15 new split nuts for my recently acquired 1500... and as fate would have it, these split nuts also fit my X and Y carriages on my "beast from the east", as Mac likes to refer to it...these also work on both the X and Y carriages on the 1500, so I am set up for a very long time(i.e. forever!...LOL!)...a 2 ft. piece of UHMW from McMaster-carr(about $20.00) was enough to make 15 split nuts with leftover...the tap we just made did it's job very well, with no visible wear at all...and no painting necessary here!...LOL...so this is in the books...happy to answer any questions anyone might have...joe b. -- 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 [mailto:legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com]. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com [mailto:legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills [https://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout [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.
