Greetings all; It was the nut bracket that couples the Z sled with the Z nut. It has a couple cap screws that a 6mm Allen wrench fits, although I am not convinced they are really good, hard screws. It was I thought, plenty tight when I assembled it, but they weren't even finger tight when I could get to them again this evening.
So I will head for Home Depot in the next day or 3, with one of them in hand and see if I can find some decent grade 12 or metric equ versions. These are I assume 6mm cap screws, black finished, and they are threaded about 12 to 15 turns into the base of the alu standoff, the other end of which wraps around the nut. No clue what the alu alloy is, so no clue as to the shear strength of the threads. Must be close to 20mm of screw in the hole when tight. Assuming I can find some Good Cap Screws, how many inch pounds would be equivalent to the proverbial 1/8 turn from stripped? Its about an hour to get it apart to access these puppy's and likely at least 3 or 4 to re-assemble it and tram it, so with the exception of the tramming, I'd druther not have to do it again. Should I also stir up some JBWeld and give the leg and its socket a coat of that for even more permanence? I don't know that I could get it tight before the JB is setup though. That stuff is pretty fast setting. Advice needed & Thanks all. 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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
