Been wringing out the hidden mysteries of the threading dial on scrap pipe.
Just about everything I have heard on YouTube is total BS.
I hate to sound that way but it is true.
They keep saying any line or any number for even numbered threads this isn't so.
It isn't even so on my threading chart.
I just got through cutting the nicest threads I have ever cut running backwards tool upside down and treading out not in at 600 RPM 16, 20 and 40 threads per inch.
Just about as fast as a CNC.
No worries about crashing because you are moving away from the chuck.
Learning to use the dial to cut two and four start threads too.
The lead screw has 8 threads per inch the threading dial has 16 teeth.
You can engage that half nut any place you want from 8 16 32 64 threads per inch on up and not even have to look it will always be on track.
Four TPI will cut a two start thread if you get between the lines on the dial.
Rant over.
What I have been doing is working in the yard I get tired of it go to the lathe mess with it then got back to the garden.
Worth