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It´s just me or there is a russian bot offering doors in this thread?

I work in a plant where half rings are usual. You turn a ring, cut in halves but taking care to displace the saw before cutting in such way that after cutting you end up with a perfect half ring and, in the other hand, with a not so perfect half ring: it suffered the lack of material...

Nice stuff, thanks!. :-)

Nice!, thanks!.

Thanks for share this lesson painfully learned. Just once in my life I used canned air, for an airbrush, many years ago. I will take in mind your experience for if the case. Hope you´ll be better soon.

I can add this pic from the latin edition of PM. Hope it helps. :-)

I grew up reading magazines like Popular Mechanics and Hobby. From this one I scanned an old set of plans for a naval cannon. I am working in my own one and it is going nice, but my daily work don´t let me go to workshop since months :-/ I know that there are many people looking for this kind of...

Nice idea!, but... you take it out before machining, don´t you?.

Thanks a lot, mate!.

As you said, 3,5 = 3.5 mm. Don´t forget that threads are metric: M2 is metric (60° thread angle), 2 mm. step.

Thank you, sir, ¡nothing like a boatman as journey companion!.

Thanks everyone, gentlemen! :)

Well, the lack of conicity when you use screw instead of tap could result in misalignement of the thread. I think about it as a last option, and always consider better wait for the monday and buy the proper tool!. :-)

Well, it is said that "safety culture is all that we do when our boss is not watching us".

Hi!, I´m glad to have found this site!. I am a 51 years old engineer and I have saved and restored an old (mine) lathe. It is a pretty long tale, the short version is: I am choosing an easy project for fun and to share time with my son. No doubt I will meet some interesting people over here!.