Haven’t done this for a looooong time!

[Charles JarmanParticipant @charlesjarman52751]

Thanks Jason.

chaz

[old martParticipant @oldmart]

Its a shame, I just looked for M12 X 1 nuts on that unmentionable site and had a choice of half nuts, full nuts and stainless steel ones.

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

Welcome Charles.

Already, you see the help and advice available.

Have you now got your 12 x 1 nut?

Whereabouts are you located?

PM me if you are near the Cambridgeshire / Leicestershire / Lincolnshire borders.

At the risk of Chicken and Egg, if the lathe cannot be used to make a Tee nut, you could hacksaw and file up a Tee nut. The stud does not have to have a 12 x1 thread, there should be enough meat in the Tee nut to put in a standard Metric Coarse 12 x 1.75.,

If the nut is a bit too thin for M12, and the lathe is runnable you could turn up a shouldered stud , (Presumably, it is for a Toolpost? ) so the lower end could be M8 or even M6. (You would be surprised just how much load you can produce with a M6 thread! )

With a bit of ingenuity, you can get the lathe useable, and then start making "neat" fittings, and accessories for it, before you start on your model making activities.

Howard

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Howard, tee nuts are threaded M6 into an 8mm wide slot. Spindle pulley is retained by M12x1 nut

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

So if a 12 x1 nut is available, for the spindle, to get started, a bit of M6 studding and an M6 nut, would start the ball rolling, to make a proper stud.and nut combination.

For a "bodge" Tee nut, turn a bit of steel to 12 or 10 mm diameter, to the right thickness for the bottom of the slot.

File a couple of flats to give 8 mm, drill 5 mm, tap M6, et Voila! you are up and running and ready to make whatever "proper" bits you need. Next job, repeat, but with a stem, say 7.5mm dia?

Starting to sound like "There's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, a hole" aren't I!

Possibly, a tee nut would be available commercially, if filing does not appeal.

Howard

Edited By Howard Lewis on 27/09/2019 18:55:18

[FarmboyParticipant @farmboy]

One of my first lathe bodges was filing two parallel flats on the head of a cup square head coach bolt to make a passable tee bolt. It needed a little refining of the square shoulder to fit the tee slot without binding. Often it is irrelevant whether the nut is on top or bottom, although clearly not always the case.

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