Any one familiar with using a thread chaser?

I cut threads now and then. I use the Beall thread stuff. Both to thread dowel and to make the nut part. Works great.

-- Gary, DeKalb Texas only 4 miles from the mill

The only thread chaser I have used was like a sort of file with teeth cut to fit the size thread I wanted to chase.

The act of chasing threads is, to my understanding of the term, to repair existing threads.

Making new threads would be called cutting threads or simply tapping a hole in the case of internal threads.

I have heard the term used to describe running a tap through a threaded hole to clean up the threads, as in “chase the threads with a tap”.

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A thread chaser is used for cleaning up threads. Not made for cutting new threads.
If you have a metal turning lathe you can cut large diameter threads in most any
material. For anything over an inch you would probably need to look into pre made
thread inserts. If you have a bridgeport mill there maybe some thread forming tools
available.

-- Bob Kenosha Wi.

The Woodwright, Roy Underhill, had an episode a few years ago about making some threading cutting tools.

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I’ve seen this being done. There’s a few you tube videos just google them
The trick – and it’s a trick – is to let the thing catch while you move it from right to left then hang on as it self feeds.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qi9q2BV3ss

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I’ll be …. there is a thread forming tool form the wood lathe….Learn something new every day!!!!

http://youtu.be/c-j16CrwHeM

-- Bob Kenosha Wi.

There’s lots of thread chasers here on LJ. You look at one thread, then down at the Pulse page and… bing, you’re off on another thread. I’ve spent DAYS chasing threads.

Seriously, check out the Thread Master. THAT’s the one I drool over. A similar idea here.

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Thanks for the Link Bob. that answered my question of how to use this tool.

-- Michael Mills, North Carolina, http://www.scicaskets.com

I have some limited experience in using thread chasers on an antique treadle lathe. The best source for instruction I have seen is the DVD by Allan Batty. Available at Craft Supplies USA=.

-- Troy in Melrose, Florida