On Saturday 27 June 2015 10:52:39 Todd Zuercher wrote: > If and when you succeed in removing the nut. I have had some similar > problems re-installing a ball nut. The provided tube just didn't > provide sufficient pressure to get the thing started. What ended up > working in my case was to use a piece of rubber hose slipped over a > wooden dowel (all snug fitting together so nothing slipped) to retain > the balls while starting the nut.
I don't want to remove the ball nut completely. Its confusing as the stuck nut is the lacknut above the thrust bearings. If I can get that off, and the screw to where I can clamp in vertically, I will unscrew it to extract the balls above the recycle guide, then unscrew it enough that I can re-introduce the balls, either into the groove at the end of the screw but below the plasic guide working them around to make room for the next ball, wash rinse & repeat till I am out of balls, at which point I should be able to see balls coming back in the recycle guide. If not, there are balls on the floor I haven't found yet. But first I'll rig a coil to demagnetise them by the time honored method of exciting the coil with good old 60hz, and gradually, slowly withdraw a pill bottle with the balls in it from the core of the coil. Then I will stir in some alky and rinse several times until clean. And do the same demag to the 4" curved nose suture clamps I'll be handling the individual balls with. A glass test tube would be handy for that but I don't hardly have some more of those so I am stuck with the 3oz pill bottle I buy by the grocery sack for mixing wipe on wood finish. Then I can reassemble it into the thrust bearings, and re-install this currently frozen in place nut, with some red thread-locker. And then install it following the youtube movie showing what I should have done in the first place. I went back to the link David gave me and its to an ebay login which has been defunct since sometime in 2011. But when I use the email addy as the key to have them send a passwd reset, I can follow that email link 30 seconds later, and iceweasel says it is an expired link in bright red text and takes me back to the regular login screen. Trying to setup a new account, the instant ebay sees the email addy is an existing one, I get a refusal to create. Chicken V Egg. And actually finding a phone number for a human at ebay cannot be done. So f--k ebay, I just goto paypal & pay it that way. But that account lockout means I can't ask the seller a question or anything else, so it is a PIMA, and now, if I can't fix this, will probably cost me another $150 or so for another screw, this time a 20mm5. If anyone has a phone number for ebay that would get me to a human if I stand on the 0 long enough, I need a copy of it please. Thanks. I haven't been out yet this morning, I don't like swimming up the hill to the shop, where my hot air rework station is ATM. We got around 1.5" of rain in the last 8 hours or so. And likely have some in the basement too. :( My sump pump helps, dry's it up a lot faster, but is not a total stopper. Sigh... Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor 25 network devices or servers for free with OpManager! OpManager is web-based network management software that monitors network devices and physical & virtual servers, alerts via email & sms for fault. Monitor 25 devices for free with no restriction. Download now http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/292181274;119417398;o _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
