On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 04:25:07 GMT, carl mciver wrote:

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| It would depend on the quality of the die, compared to the accuracy
| of re-aligning the stock for the later cut(s). I'd like to think
| that a good die is going to give you the quality you'd need?

Seems to me that if you used a die you would likely get good threads,
but if you pulled or pushed on the stock while it was passing through the
die you would gain or lose a thread or more over the length of the screw.
Again, it's a tolerance stackup, but over a long item it adds up to be a
whole bunch, especially on a lead screw.

Great information. Question though, is that an SAE "whole bunch", or
a metric "whole bunch"?