Joe Miranda
Titanium
- Joined
- Oct 19, 2004
- Location
- Elyria Ohio
Usually when I program our lathe to cut pipe threads I go and get a pipe tap and measure it and program the lathe according to those dimensions. Then I try the corresponding male or female part and tweak the "x" offset until the two parts fit together to the Machinery Handbook's "handtight" engagement spec. While this method works - it is not very scientific. I have read and re-read the Machinery Handbooks description of pipe threads and I admit that I am not smarter than a fifth grader. So, if any of you guys understand this formula, would you mind elightening me so that I can make the mathemetacial computation based on an actual formula rather than measuring a tap?
Thanks,
Joe
Thanks,
Joe