My first Z part made on my lathe

[240260280]

@Captain Obvious should be a proud dad.

I used my lathe to make a Z part.  It is a longer and thicker push rod to connect my buddy's linkage along the firewall for his SK Racing/TWM carb set up.

It is stainless steel and 8" long from 3/16" stock. For reference the end-socket  threads are M4 0.7mm

 

Edited October 4, 2020 by 240260280

[7tooZ]

Are you going to eat us see it?

[Mark Maras]

Pics or it didn't happen.

[Captain Obvious]

Awesome! I'm so happy!! 

Stainless can be a PITA sometimes depending on the grade and what you're trying to do with it. Run into any issues there?

And I agree with the above. Pics of the little fella!!    

[SteveJ]

1 minute ago, Mark Maras said:

Pics or it didn't happen.

What he said.

[Mark Maras]

An 8" rod is impressive. Perhaps we've discovered the reason for no pics.

[Captain Obvious]

  LOL.

Maybe he's polishing? Or waxing?

[240260280]

One end is threaded longer for a longer ball end. This rod comes with 2 ball ends... one hangs longer  🙂

 

[siteunseen]

13 hours ago, 240260280 said:

@Captain Obvious should be a proud dad.

When it gets older it'll have this to deal with.

[Captain Obvious]

1 hour ago, 240260280 said:

One end is threaded longer for a longer ball end. This rod comes with 2 ball ends... one hangs longer  🙂

Nice. So you turned the rod OD down to accept a die for making the thread? Or did you actually cut (they call it "single point") the threads on the lathe? I'm guessing you used a die. Single pointing threads is not something you typically do on your first piece ever.

[Captain Obvious]

14 minutes ago, siteunseen said:

When it gets older it'll have this to deal with.

  Yup!  And they're often well lubed. And sometimes they even turn blue!

[240260280]

I cheated with the die.... pretty easy job. I had to use the tail stock to align the thread cutter.... starting into SS is tough.

I was able to set the depth of cut and speed so that the SS peeled off in one long twisted chip.... fun to be had!

This is the first step towards making something exciting for triple carb owners 🙂