kb0thn
Stainless
- Joined
- May 15, 2008
- Location
- Winona, MN, USA
Hi Guys,
So I crashed my faithful BT25 mounted threading tool. Destroyed it badly. My lathe is a weird bugger with a 16 position turret that doesn't take stick tooling. But I made one tooling block that takes 3/4" stick tooling. That block is orientated so the spindle is running in reverse and the insert is facing up. So long story short, I bought a new SECO threading tool ... and I can only seem to cut left hand threads. I've tried setting the "R/L" in *** TOOL DATA *** to both RGT and LFT and it doesn't seem to make a difference.
Does Mazatrol T2 only do left hand threads when the spindle is running in reverse? IE do I need to make another tool block that holds the tool upside down (matching the rest of the tools in the lathe) so I can do right hand threads?
It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out why I couldn't get the ring gauge to start on the threads...
So I crashed my faithful BT25 mounted threading tool. Destroyed it badly. My lathe is a weird bugger with a 16 position turret that doesn't take stick tooling. But I made one tooling block that takes 3/4" stick tooling. That block is orientated so the spindle is running in reverse and the insert is facing up. So long story short, I bought a new SECO threading tool ... and I can only seem to cut left hand threads. I've tried setting the "R/L" in *** TOOL DATA *** to both RGT and LFT and it doesn't seem to make a difference.
Does Mazatrol T2 only do left hand threads when the spindle is running in reverse? IE do I need to make another tool block that holds the tool upside down (matching the rest of the tools in the lathe) so I can do right hand threads?
It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out why I couldn't get the ring gauge to start on the threads...