On 13 June 2012 18:47, Przemek Klosowski <[email protected]> wrote:

> You need to 'get a quote' so I called and talked to a rep, and
> felt that they are not a small/hobbyist customer oriented.

You can buy balls crews from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/THK-Steel-Precision-Assembly-BNK-0801/dp/B006P583QW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1339611871&sr=8-3&keywords=8mm+ballscrew
But not cheaply compared with, for example:
http://www.zappautomation.co.uk/r08025rswp0-ballnut-p-142.html?cPath=1_59_66_189

> Another useful information was that there are three manufacturing
> classes, in order of increasing accuracy and price. Standard rolled
> thread is accurate to 0.004in/ft; precision rolled good to 0.001/ft,
> and ground thread better than 0.5mil/ft

And I have argued several times that we are almost always going to be
happy with the inaccurate stuff. Especially over the length of a lathe
cross-slide. (and where you are probably touching off anyway, so only
really care that 50 thou is very nearly exactly 50 thou.


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