Tennon Material

[Coffeyscueservice]

When I purchased my lathe it came with a bunch of NOS stuff. Mostly about 3 years old. I have been having issues with the replacement tennons twisting off near the cue face. I have both a steel and an aluminum compression die. I use wax and the proper technique. Do most of you use fluted, spiral cut, or straight dowel that you thread yourself?? I'll do a few with good results and then one will twist off

 

[Rodney]

I’ve not had much luck with those tenon threaders either. As a friend of mine suggested, I use a split die with very good results.

 

[Tom1234]

Is this about replacement tenons? I’ve had no problems with 2 part epoxy. Just wait until it has cured completely. The replacement tenon should not twist at this point.

 

[muskyed]

To be honest, I only have done one, but got a very nice result. I had a house cue that I was using as a break shaft and it's regular tenon came loose so I bought some capped threaded tenons and one of those threaders, watched a few videos and did it. I actually got quite good threads for what it was. I didn't use as much wax as I saw used by others with the thinking that I wanted as little wax on the threads as possible when glueing. Then I made sure to use a longer setting, not 5 min , epoxy to glue on the tenon. Let it cure for a few days and has been fine ever since and I use it for breaking.
If I had a machinist lathe, I would only do cut threads, but I don't so just had to make do with the lathe that I had.

 

[Rodney]

I found the tenon threader made the threads a lot smaller than the tapped ferrule leaving a lot of glue filling the gaps. When I switched to the die I could make the threads larger and use wood glue instead of epoxy on some materials.

 

[conetip]

Live thread cutting is the best option if you can set that up. Plenty of video's and posts of how different one do it.

 

[slim123]

When I purchased my lathe it came with a bunch of NOS stuff. Mostly about 3 years old. I have been having issues with the replacement tennons twisting off near the cue face. I have both a steel and an aluminum compression die. I use wax and the proper technique. Do most of you use fluted, spiral cut, or straight dowel that you thread yourself?? I'll do a few with good results and then one will twist off

Cut the tennon down to around .29 then it will thread fine and you will have no issues. I think those premade tenons
come @ ,31 , you might be surprised at the difference a few thousandths makes.
When they are too big the die gets in a bind and makes them twist off, nowhere to get rid of the waste that you cut off. a little looser thread works good, giving you more room for glue

i make my own tenons, maple always seems to be available in the shop,.

 

[JoeyInCali]

When I purchased my lathe it came with a bunch of NOS stuff. Mostly about 3 years old. I have been having issues with the replacement tennons twisting off near the cue face. I have both a steel and an aluminum compression die. I use wax and the proper technique. Do most of you use fluted, spiral cut, or straight dowel that you thread yourself?? I'll do a few with good results and then one will twist off

5/16 18 tenons need to be cut down to .285". NOT .312 IF YOU USE the die .
IF that is a metal lathe, get yourself a router setup.

 

[JoeyInCali]

Live thread cutting is the best option if you can set that up. Plenty of video's and posts of how different one do it.

Yup.

 

[Mcues]

Anything over .290 is troublesome.