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28 Aug 2025 15:21 #334049 by michelko
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Thanks for your reply.
This is the result on the workpiece
 
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28 Aug 2025 15:24 #334051 by michelko
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29 Aug 2025 19:14 #334103 by andypugh
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Maybe the lathe is not touched-off correctly for diameter?

Where was the tool tip when you started?

(for the radius macro it should be possible to make a very good guess of the starting position, but the macro as it stands doesn't try)

5 m/min is a pretty low surface speed (the macros run in CSS mode)

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25 Sep 2025 19:35 #335426 by RotarySMP
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Hi Andy,
Are the macros reread from the drive each time they run, or loaded once at start up? 
The reason I ask, is I need to change the G76 Q value to 4.5° to cut my Schaublin collet draw tube buttress thread, and was wondering if I can just edit it with LinuxCNC active, or whether I should shut down, edit, and then restart?

Have you considered making flank angle a data entry box on the Macro page?
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Mark

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25 Sep 2025 19:55 #335429 by RotarySMP
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I worked it out, by playing around with adding an M5 to the end of Chamfer. It rereads it each time, so I didn't need to restart LCNC.

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28 Sep 2025 16:49 #335510 by andypugh
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I was upbraided earlier by a friend from the Motor Club about this, as he watched your video and thought that I should have defaulted to a 55 degree angle as anything other than Whitworth is an abomination.

Adding the compound angle wouldn't be too hard, but I doubt that cutting buttress threads is that common, and you can always MDI the G76 directly if you need to.
I think that 29.5 is "not terrible" for Whitworth, but I would need to sketch a diagram to be sure. It's probably not ideal for BA threads (47.5 degree) or Panzergewinde (80 degree)

I also suspect that the macro takes many more passes than strictly necessary,

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