So..... let me recap.......... a man that has a large vocabulary shares his procedure for turning shafts that uses something of his own design to insure a straight and true piece.
The people here pick it apart and ridicule him because they have preconceived notions that it will not work. They state their opinions based on their suppositions and not any real experience with this method.
This is why I don't post on this forum very often...............
Kim
Actually you contribute/post quite often Kim, and I will say, you don't use big words that don't make sense when combined with the topic. When you say you did this and then that...I know and believe that's what you did. You give advice based on what you have tried and been successful at. Rick goes out of his way to use the biggest words that he can, with no real clue about their actual meaning, to describe what he does. Sad part is he doesn't seem to realize it comes out a gibberish BS and usually doesn't make sense. He does this to make himself look like a super smart person, IMO. I am surprised that he hasn't thrown around his 4 page resume yet with all his accomplishments, etc. as he has on the other site many times, that so far no one can find even a mention of online when doing searches. Here he doesn't tend to do it so much, and I think it's because he knows he'll get called out on it right away as what has happened in this thread. It's one thing to say what you have tried and found to work for you, but to make s#$t up just to impress is not right.
If someone is broadcasting incorrect info in this section, they should be held accountable for it. I seriously doubt Rick follows the exact method he has described (in which he used contradicting words multiple times in that description) and have had the results he has stated. He may make a great hitting cue, Don't know... no real feedback to look at, but even if he does, no need to BS his methods.
I have tried using a threaded fitting to cut shafts, without inserts, and with them, and ended up with more scrap shafts then I needed. What the other's are stating is truth, if that shaft moves at anytime after the insert or threading is done, that shaft will not be true....and will never come back to the original form. If one does a drawing in Cad and plot it under all the different conditions of a shaft moving between cuts, the centerline from the threaded joint or insert will no longer be on the centerline of the rest of that shaft. It's not opinion, it's fact, backed by science.
I'm Done with this 5-6 page joint issue thread....sad part is the OP got his answer in the first page and the rest was spent dealing with Rick's understanding / misunderstanding of the real world....
Dave