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Builds, Repairs, Show Your Machines! => Machine Tools, Machining, and Toolmaking => Topic started by: Stoker on June 26, 2026, 10:50:18 am

Title: The Screws of Precision
Post by: Stoker on June 26, 2026, 10:50:18 am

It boggles the mind, mine at least, how finely and precisely made screw threads can be! This, to the point where they are indeed the controlling factor in most high precision machine tools and many metrology instruments.

Here is a nice video describing the rather amazing history of the supposedly simple screw thread:

https://youtu.be/isVQMHmzHNo?si=8JUcfm7uLv3yKWUf