Greetings all; I finally got the compound apart, and found that with the cobble job that made the gib, with the end broken off and looking as if it was ground flat ended with a bench grinder and some new screws installed along with some handmade pusher washers that have a finger that projects out to catch the end of the gib so that it can be adjusted by loosening the screw on one end, and tightening the screw on the other end. Adjustment range is about 3/8" with another 3/16 to be gained by interchanging the pusher blocks as one is flat, and the other has a finger pointing at the gib .
But the biggest surprise was that it had a pair of .0055" thick, .401" wide SS shims laid on it, tightening it about .011". Best I can do is about .007" play, so it appears that if I could find some shim stock of that width and .010" thick, I could cut one exactly the length of the gib, and another 1/4" longer, and fold the ends of this one over the ends of the gib, exactly as the .006" thick stock is fitted now. So the question is: Who is likely to be able to supply this stuff 0.010" thick by 0.400 wide? Brass or SS would be a never mind. A foot of it would be enough. Side comment, the carriage extension that reaches back to the taper attachment, looks like its part of the crossfeed, but its not, its attached to the rear of the crossfeed with 3 screws and was likely part of the taper attachment. Can someone who has one of these without the taper attachment confirm that it does have a screw cover on the rear of the crossfeed slider, but both the screw and this cover are considerably shorter? When run in to the center of thing, there's about a foot of this thing hanging out in the breeze which will complicate putting a nema 23 motor back there into a belt drive kludge. 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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports.http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
