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Club G40 => General Car Chat => Topic started by: hayesey on February 02, 2009, 10:43:26 am

Title: anyone got a lathe - favour needed
Post by: hayesey on February 02, 2009, 10:43:26 am
has any kind person on here got access to a lathe they can do a small job on for me?

I need some long hex nuts turning down.  I have bought some of these:

http://www.a2a4.com/acatalog/STUDDING_CONNECTORS__HEX_NUTS_3D.html

and the end result needs to be:

(http://derby.polog40.co.uk/photos/nuts.png)

I need two of them. 

cheers,
Paul.
Title: Re: anyone got a lathe - favour needed
Post by: juan on February 02, 2009, 10:59:45 am
If there's knobody near to you who can help I could probably get that done for you at work, how urgently do you need them? (i work in a machine shop most wednesdays).
Title: Re: anyone got a lathe - favour needed
Post by: hayesey on February 02, 2009, 11:02:45 am
well, as soon as really.  but beggars can't be choosers  ;D  If you can do it next wednesday and I can't find anything sooner then that'd be much appreciated!  The nuts should arrive tomorrow, so I'm guessing there's not time to get them to you by this wednesday.
Title: Re: anyone got a lathe - favour needed
Post by: juan on February 02, 2009, 11:03:29 am
If its urgent and you know of any local engineers then it would probably be best trying them a its only a 5 minute job :)

Title: Re: anyone got a lathe - favour needed
Post by: giorgio on February 02, 2009, 12:14:25 pm
I can get on a lathe most days mate if you need
Title: Re: anyone got a lathe - favour needed
Post by: Fred on February 02, 2009, 08:09:18 pm
If all else fails Paul!  I have a Lathe.

Fred.
Title: Re: anyone got a lathe - favour needed
Post by: tdh-syorks on February 02, 2009, 09:08:34 pm
its my daily Job, except i work on a much larger scale, tho it wouldn't be a problem for me to knock you a couple up. what pitch is the internal thread?? also what do u want it to measure across the spanner flats??
cheers Tom
Title: Re: anyone got a lathe - favour needed
Post by: hayesey on February 03, 2009, 10:03:05 am
Hi Tom,  it'd be 19mm across the flats and m12x1.75.  I have already ordered some studding connectors though which would just need cutting down and one end turning down to 16mm dia as per my crappy picture above.
Title: Re: anyone got a lathe - favour needed
Post by: hayesey on February 03, 2009, 06:22:38 pm
er thread actually needs to be 1.5mm pitch, maybe I should have measured that before ordering the nuts  :-[
Title: Re: anyone got a lathe - favour needed
Post by: tdh-syorks on February 03, 2009, 07:43:47 pm
no probs, ill make you a couple, ill pm you when their made