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Karl Townsend Karl Townsend is offline
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On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:48:52 -0500, tnik wrote:

On 12/28/2010 2:39 PM, Karl Townsend wrote:

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The only tooling we don't have is a 1 3/16 by 16 tap. Its $160 from
MSC, ouch.

Karl


If you have CNC why not just thread mill it?


I'll probably single point thread mill the first part, but i doubt i
can hold specs. this way. A 16 TPI insert thread mill will cost more
than the tap.

Karl