Reg Yoke Nut Socket Height?

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I ended up making the socket but while the lathe was running I put the reg in the good vise on the milling machine. that got the yoke off pretty simple and didn't hurt the brass. I marred it with a wrench when I tried that a while back. the vise is much more stable. The socket turned out pretty cool and has proved useful already on another reg project so I'm glad I have it.

took about an hour to do though as I wasn't familiar with the lathe or where anyone kept the tooling and it was an experiment so I would take 10 or 15 thousandths off the diameter and see if it fit and radius the end and see if it fit. I must have removed it from the lathe a dozen times but it fits perfect and it only cost $6 and some time.

And you made it yourself which I always think is special. If I had access to a machine shop I probably would not be wasting so much time on this board (and my tool would not look so crude). BTW, I made a hook spanner from a piece of angled aluminum and a brass machine screw. It might be a little faster to use than what you described on TDS (but that does sound like it would be great if you run into a stubborn ambient chamber).

 

[Jim Lapenta]

I'm getting ready to start making some tools like a slim wrench, hook spanners, etc. I have a waterjet and a nice old bridgeport mill at work. Things are a little slow and the boss is on vacation in a month. I'm not a trained a machinist but I've been working with the mill for over a year now and feel pretty confident I can do what I need to do with it. . Plenty of practice on unimportant stuff like customer orders. I'll start posting pics when I actually get things underway.