On Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:14:41 PM Jon Elson did opine: > dave wrote: > > GOOD GRIEF!! and I thought 0.003 on X and Y was bad. > > Well, that was the original 1938 Acme screw and bronze nuts. The > threads in the center of the X screw are thinner to the extent you can > see it from ten feet > away!
And the guy you bought it from claimed very little wear I'll bet... > Now, I have a "backlash" of about .001 - .0015 on all the axes of > my mill. It is not true backlash but spring in the various mountings of > the ballscrews and nuts. > > Jon That sounds more like it. Thanks Jon. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> Biology grows on you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
