[modeleng] Re: unknown thread

  • From: "Len Smith" <parnobal2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:18:54 +0100

This 36 tpi thread, and the 208, can be cut directly (obviously with the right 
tool form) on a South Bend gearbox lathe. My single tumbler box ranges from 4 
to 224, and the twin tumbler box is even more versatile. 
Len Smith

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tim Rickard 
  To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 1:03 PM
  Subject: [modeleng] Re: unknown thread


  I should get out more.
  It is the Royal Microscopal Society thread devised in 1866 36 threads per 
  inch of the 55° Whitworth form. The male thread has an outer diameter of 
  0.7965 inch (between 0.7952 inch and 0.7982 inch). The female thread, in the 
  nosepiece, has a top-of-thread diameter between 0.8030 inch and 0.8000 inch.


  >From: "alanjstepney" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  >Reply-To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  >
  >Whilst talking about unusual threads, there was a Whitworth for microscope
  >and telescope eyepieces, and similar optical equipment. It was probably 
  >also
  >used on anything where a very fine thread on a large diameter tube was
  >required.
  >In that respect it is different from the Whitworth Instrument thread which
  >is of small diameter.
  >
  >Has any one any details of this large Whitworth thread?
  >alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  >
  >www.alanstepney.info
  >Model Engineering, Steam Engine, and Railway technical pages.
  >
  >


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