Just a random little project I had to do as part of overhauling a gearbox.
Basically, on the subaru 5mt, the rear synchro setup is held on with a 35mm nut, but it sits inside a ring that is only about 47mm wide, so most sockets won't fit unless they're expensive thin wall or even more expensive special subaru tools.
Anyway, I bought myself a draper socket for 11 quid off ebay for some PSA hub nut, and tried machining it on my old atlas 10" lathe.
I think my indexable tip has just about had it, but it managed to eventually cut through the socket (about 8 thousands at a time off the rad). The fact that the socket didn't fit through the chuck so I had to hold it on the small section definitely did not help (it came loose once).
Moment of truth:
Boom
All in all quite a successful little mod
First time I've cut anything reasonably hard on the little lathe as well - still some life left in the old girl.
Edit: some random image below, which I seemingly can't delete..
Basically, on the subaru 5mt, the rear synchro setup is held on with a 35mm nut, but it sits inside a ring that is only about 47mm wide, so most sockets won't fit unless they're expensive thin wall or even more expensive special subaru tools.
Anyway, I bought myself a draper socket for 11 quid off ebay for some PSA hub nut, and tried machining it on my old atlas 10" lathe.
I think my indexable tip has just about had it, but it managed to eventually cut through the socket (about 8 thousands at a time off the rad). The fact that the socket didn't fit through the chuck so I had to hold it on the small section definitely did not help (it came loose once).
Moment of truth:
Boom
All in all quite a successful little mod
First time I've cut anything reasonably hard on the little lathe as well - still some life left in the old girl.
Edit: some random image below, which I seemingly can't delete..