What fun these were to make, I'd forgotten what a joy stainless is to work with.
I had 10 stainless T nuts to make, 6 plain, 4 knurled. Plain ones for fitting inside gromets, knurled ones for securing air filter covers. What fun these were to make, drill the hole, heat the stock up, let it cool, tap the thread and turn to size, heat it up again, let it cool and then knurl.
All but one came up ok, the last one's knurling doesn't have great pyramiding, but, ok - fit for purpose.
All that work for 10 little items you can't even see.
These were to replace aluminium T nuts I made some time ago. Much prefer working with black steel, aluminium, brass, Delrin, bronze and so on. Damn bandsaw wouldn't even cut the stainless, went through two blades before reverting to fibre cut off disks.
KnurLing aluminium, brass, steel is a breeze, sizing isn't that important as they are all pretty forgiving metals, regardless of sizing the pyramiding comes out pretty good. Not stainless though, sizing has to be spot on, otherwise the knurling is pretty muddled, terrible pyramiding and double cutting.
I had 10 stainless T nuts to make, 6 plain, 4 knurled. Plain ones for fitting inside gromets, knurled ones for securing air filter covers. What fun these were to make, drill the hole, heat the stock up, let it cool, tap the thread and turn to size, heat it up again, let it cool and then knurl.
All but one came up ok, the last one's knurling doesn't have great pyramiding, but, ok - fit for purpose.
All that work for 10 little items you can't even see.
These were to replace aluminium T nuts I made some time ago. Much prefer working with black steel, aluminium, brass, Delrin, bronze and so on. Damn bandsaw wouldn't even cut the stainless, went through two blades before reverting to fibre cut off disks.
KnurLing aluminium, brass, steel is a breeze, sizing isn't that important as they are all pretty forgiving metals, regardless of sizing the pyramiding comes out pretty good. Not stainless though, sizing has to be spot on, otherwise the knurling is pretty muddled, terrible pyramiding and double cutting.
