Piece of cake, Wolfie. The price of steel is ridiculous though. $10.00 a foot for 1" round stock out of the scrap bin.




Charlie

bore out the center to desired depth and use a reamer. You could take a tap and do your threads inside (female end) and then screw in a male adapter or whatever on the other end. The ends can be tapered by adjusting the cutter angle on the lathe.

Why cut it in half? I'm not following the half part, and if it's cut in half, its done after the lathe work.

Ok I think I'm following you... Lol to me it sounds like you just want a section that easily separates? Could take those two pieces and drill and tap on one end both pieces .. Put in all-thread on one with red lock-tite (that's your male section) and then the other section that's tapped, that's your female section that can screw on and off whenever you need it too. Just an idea. We have "knock-out" rods that we do that with at work. Lol not sure what you are making bud just trying to help with ideas.

Use the the lathe to drill the holes into both pieces at desired depth. If using half in rod I’d go with at minimum a 1/4 20 thread. So you would need a .201 drill or num7. A 1/4 20 tap. 5/16 18 would be better you would need a .257 drill or F drill. And of course a 5/16 18. Seen this thread so figured I’d just do a example piece out of 1/2” I had laying around and some 1/4 20 thread laying around so I used that for the example. If I were to actually make it for a beaver drowning rod I’d drill my holes deeper and use a longer piece of all thread or a grade 8 bolt and just cut the head off. But use a normal starter tap just drill a 1/4 deeper then the desired thread depth your looking for this way you can skip the lock tite put your all thread in a vice with some brass jaw inserts and you can tighten the one rod down tight enough to where it’s starts to cut its on last few threads at the bottom of your thread depth where the starter tap quit threading if that makes sense no animal is going to unthread this. Then just screw your pieces together. Hope I explained that good enough. These photos are just a example I wiped up in a couple minutes on my lathe. Not what I’d actually use like I said longer threads and deeper threaded holes but for example here you go.

Yes, the lathe is the only machine that can reproduce itself