As I need every mm of that screw I can salvage, I am thinking of boring a pocket in the inside end of the bearing boss end that fits the OD of the screw, close enough I might have to drive it in. Then turning a "pipe taper" thread on the OD for a suitable nut, then slitting the end into 4 petals, so that when the nut is screwed on, it closes up the petals and gets a death grip on the screw.
Long term workable? I should think so, but has anyone else done it that way? There simply is not room inside an 8mm shaft for one of those dual tpi screws as likely will not have adequate wall thickness for the 6.35mm extension the motor drive coupling will be clamped to. I did do that on the lathes x, but used a 9mm thru shaft, and the motor is on the other end of the screw, so all this rig had to do was take the end thrust, which its done rather nicely so far. Thanks. 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) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
