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Ballscrew rework
I've got an 'Acupath mill' ( Taiwanese import mill vintage 80's) with a
trashed X axis ball screw. The move crew took it apart to get it in the room, the results was the little balls all over the inside of the knee. I think I have a way to fix it. I need to find a stray ball somewhere in the nooks and crannies of the machine so I can order some new balls. McMaster has a huge selection of inch and metric balls, usually run about $.10 each, need perhaps 150 of them so $15 or $20 would cover it. This site shows how a ball screw nut is threaded on a ball screw: http://www.nookindustries.com/ball/B....cfm#BallArbor If the arbor was a chunk of aluminum in the proper size, had a suitable groove cut in one end, one should be able to populate the ball screw nut by holding the grooved end up and dropping them in one by one. Once it's full, transfer to a tube with a sharp edge, screw it on to the screw. Wadda ya think? |
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