Now it appears the Z posts top plate, carrying the motor and screw, is miss-made. Except its not, and I am now convinced its the nut mount bracket.
When the nuts mounting tab is drawn up, the screw is on a really severe bind. On checking measurements, the OEM top plates hole for the thrust bearings and screw is exactly centered on the plate in BOTH directions. However, the new top plate has all this moved nominally 5mm forward, and it appears the nuts mounting bracket will need to be removed, and shaved by about that much in order to place the screw actually running vertically in the post. Remaking the top plate won't do as that will wreck the zerk sticking out of the back of it. I suspect the bolt was move forward in the first place just to make running room for the zerk fitting. With the top bolts loose, and drawn as high as it can go with the nut bracket bolts also loose, the front edge of the plate is sitting solid on the post, the back edge of the top plate is lifted close to 2mm! After the fight with the balls, and 5 did not go back in as I couldn't find room for them as the tracks were full minus perhaps one ball. So I re-assembled that, runs nice by gravity alone. But this is a bummer. So I need to get in touch with David Clements. Anyone have a phone number for ebay? 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
