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Of course I haven't tried any of the above... ;)

Thread to shoulder together with fine feed works well for machining stuff but an automatic return would be nice (I've never owned a lathe that didn't take a shaving off...

If it's any help I've just changed the code to allow custom pitches. These are accessed by using the 'Set' button and selecting the (only) option 'Cust Thd'. You can...

I've created a fork with the custom pitch code in here: https://github.com/kwackers/electronic-leadscrew

The second will work just fine. I use some really oddball numbers to make my feed work (it has multiple bits of gearing compared to the leadscrew). I got them...

> Have you picked the correct branch? (You want the "thread to shoulder" branch and not master). (https://github.com/kwackers/electronic-leadscrew/tree/ThreadToShoulder) Also probably should have made it clearer you have to use the...

> first test,stoped fine, on the way back to start it stoped 1/2 way (around 33mm) and got a error "reset too fast" > > https://photos.app.goo.gl/hua9LtjjX59gnH2H9 > > sounds like...

> electronic-leadscrew-ThreadToShoulder.rar https://www.filemail.com/d/kdenckvabxeyuwv Cheers. I have a repro. Hopefully won't take me too long to work out what's happening.

New version pushed up with fix.

Added multistart threads