Continuation of working on project #4

So tonight I worked on threading the smaller piece in Project #4. Here is the rod half threaded:

And here is a shot of the rod completed and passed by the Instructor:

Following this piece, I started to thread the longer rod. Everything went well until the machine hicupped:

So tomorrow evening I will be making this piece again from a new 5-1/4" blank!

My dad used to say this a lot to me:

(1) If at first you don't succeed, try again.

So I will try again and succeed!