TimD
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- Joined
- Jul 14, 2007
- Location
- Janesville, WI
I have a job that requires two pieces of 1-1/2" pipe each with a pipe thread on one end, one long and one short. I have an old Oster pipe threader that I mounted a Ridgid 815A die head on. The 815A is the self releasing style, I thought that would be better for production.
It never seemed like the best setup and recently we've been having some consistence issues with the turns to hand tight (I do have a proper gage). I've only run about 1000 threads thru the head and internally it still looks like new. I replaced the dies and that seemed to help a bit.
Anyone have any suggestions for a more production oriented method? Next run I'll likely put the short stubs on my CNC lathe but the longer one won't fit. I could spend even more time trying to diagnose my current setup but really it's too slow anyways. The manual chuck on the Oster is too slow.
The die head:
Not my threader but same model:
It never seemed like the best setup and recently we've been having some consistence issues with the turns to hand tight (I do have a proper gage). I've only run about 1000 threads thru the head and internally it still looks like new. I replaced the dies and that seemed to help a bit.
Anyone have any suggestions for a more production oriented method? Next run I'll likely put the short stubs on my CNC lathe but the longer one won't fit. I could spend even more time trying to diagnose my current setup but really it's too slow anyways. The manual chuck on the Oster is too slow.
The die head:
Not my threader but same model: