Threading without the end groove

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Re: Threading without the end groove

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That's a good tip, Ken, and it shouldn't interfere with achieving the proper measurement.

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I can usually just pull out with the machine running at a reasonable speed. Like H said, practice, practice...

We used to make cable spools for cranes and hoists.
These used round nosed tools to match the cable radius.

We had to stop in a drilled hole on some jobs.
The King (brand name) 84 inch vertical boring mill used
was set up to plug the machine in reverse to stop the spindle. The control had a timer to adjust the length of the
reverse jolt to stop on a "dime".

The operator still had to put a line on the table (chuck)
and housing hit the stop button at where the lines intersected.

Newer machines had manual clutches with which could accurately creep the machine up to.

A tracer lathe can be set to retract at 30 degrees instead
of the standard 45.
A template with a shoulder can very satisfactrically retract the tool in a corner.

Who has a tracer lathe anyway?

With each pass you will have to retract the tool a bit
earlier or the chips will pack up and break the tool.

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Re: Threading without the end groove

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No...there is no half but disengagement when you pull the lever..the carriage continues to travel.

Agreed that it is not a perfect solution but very workable in many situations.
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Re: Threading without the end groove

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There are a number of designs for retracting tool holders you can find on the web. I have been wanting to scale up George H Thomas' design to use on a larger lathe.

I believe it was in the 60s Snap Tap made a retracting threading holder that used a trip rod to release the tool. One end of the rod was bracketed to the lathe bed and the other to the trip mechanism. I have tried a few web searches but have never located any info.
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I have seen that elsewhere on production machines.

I am pretty sure GT made it for his own.

Need to ask B&O Bob for sure
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Yep both George Thomas's lever operated tool slide and the same for the complete top slide were designed around his Myford Super 7. I can't remember any of the manufacturers brands, but I recall running across mentions of a few types made in Europe for the more industrial sized lathes as well. Maybe a search on the PM forums might pull something up? A shop built spring loaded tool holder released by adjustable trip dogs would be a handy thing to have. Martin Cleeve made, patented it, and then wrote up his design for a vertical retracting or "swing clear" threading tool holder as he called it in his book Screw Cutting in the Lathe. If and it's a big if, anything at all about single pointing threads was missed in that book it's more than doubtful any hobbyist and probably very few professionals would ever need it.

https://www.model-engineer.co.uk/news/a ... older/5056 for a rather small set of pictures for that swing clear tool holder. Google images has larger and better pictures if you use that swing clear threading tool as the search term. And https://www.gadgetbuilder.com/ToolHolders.html scroll about 2/3rds down for the Thomas designed lever operated tool slide.
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https://www.machinerypartsdepot.com/pro ... gK2YfD_BwE

here is one currently sold by Sharp.
The lever on the compound pulls it back
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Re: Threading without the end groove

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That one is positioned in roughly the same place and must work much like the G.H.T. lever operated cross slide Bill. I sure don't know much about the Hardinge HLV's or the close copy's of it. But if my memory isn't faulty the Hardinge lathes had the same set up for there cross slides either as a standard part of the machine or it may have been an additional accessory. Of course if one's pockets are over flowing Babin Machine offer this for the HLV's. http://www.babinmachine.com/index.php?HLVELECLEAD
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You are correct..the HLVs had that feature along with a few others whose model designations I cannot remember
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