Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

On Saturday 25 August 2012 04:15:33 dave did opine: > On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 12:45 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 24 August 2012 12:26:40 dave did opine: > > > On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 08:12 +0200, Jan de Kruyf wrote: > > > > > I have never seen such a material on this side of the pond, Jan.

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 12:45 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 24 August 2012 12:26:40 dave did opine: > > > On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 08:12 +0200, Jan de Kruyf wrote: > > > > I have never seen such a material on this side of the pond, Jan. > > > > Where does one get it? > > > > > > DuPont makes

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On Friday 24 August 2012 12:26:40 dave did opine: > On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 08:12 +0200, Jan de Kruyf wrote: > > > I have never seen such a material on this side of the pond, Jan. > > > Where does one get it? > > > > DuPont makes it if I am not mistaken. It is used to make bearing > > bushes for v

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On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 04:34 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 24 August 2012 03:59:31 Jan de Kruyf did opine: > > > > I have never seen such a material on this side of the pond, Jan. > > > Where does one get it? > > > > DuPont makes it if I am not mistaken. It is used to make bearing bushes

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On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 08:12 +0200, Jan de Kruyf wrote: > > I have never seen such a material on this side of the pond, Jan. Where > > does one get it? > > > > DuPont makes it if I am not mistaken. It is used to make bearing bushes for > valves and the like. > The price is not quite up to Moglice

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On Friday 24 August 2012 09:33:05 Kent A. Reed did opine: > On 8/24/2012 5:43 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Oh no! Last I knew he only had 3 legs left cuz they weren't going to > > eat him all at once.:) > > I thought I was the only one left who knew that joke. People who grow up > in farm country

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On 8/24/2012 8:41 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > On 8/24/2012 5:43 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Oh no! Last I knew he only had 3 legs left cuz they weren't going to eat >> him all at once.:) > I thought I was the only one left who knew that joke. People who grow up > in farm country have a different view

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On 8/24/2012 5:43 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Oh no! Last I knew he only had 3 legs left cuz they weren't going to eat > him all at once.:) I thought I was the only one left who knew that joke. People who grow up in farm country have a different view of animals than the 3-rd generation suburban f

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On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> That Famous Pig was butchered at Famous Daves last week. Pulled pork >> sammiches. Yummy... ;-) >> >> Mark >> > Oh no! Last I knew he only had 3 legs left cuz they weren't going to eat > him all at once. :) > > Cheers, Gene Sorry to s

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On Friday 24 August 2012 05:41:47 Mark Wendt did opine: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> I had to do a bunch of work on the bottom ways on my lathe. The ways > >> varied in thickness the entire length. > >> > >> Mark > > > > I took the serial number bumps off first t

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On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 5:19 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 24 August 2012 11:12, Mark Wendt wrote: > >> In case anybody is interested in making up a set of tapered saddle >> gibs, and really smoothening out the travel, here's Rick Kruger's mod >> to the mini lathe: >> >>

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On 24 August 2012 11:12, Mark Wendt wrote: > In case anybody is interested in making up a set of tapered saddle > gibs, and really smoothening out the travel, here's Rick Kruger's mod > to the mini lathe: > >

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On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> I had to do a bunch of work on the bottom ways on my lathe. The ways >> varied in thickness the entire length. >> >> Mark >> > I took the serial number bumps off first thing, but I think now, since this > puppy has quite a few hours on it in

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On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > > The hands-down favorite resource in Internet discussions seems to be the > 1955 book "Machine Tool Reconditioning and Applications of Hand > Scraping" by Edward Connelly. I see it's offered, presumably as a > reprint, by http://www.machinet

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On Friday 24 August 2012 03:59:31 Jan de Kruyf did opine: > > I have never seen such a material on this side of the pond, Jan. > > Where does one get it? > > DuPont makes it if I am not mistaken. It is used to make bearing bushes > for valves and the like. > The price is not quite up to Moglice

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> The hands-down favorite resource in Internet discussions seems to be the > 1955 book "Machine Tool Reconditioning and Applications of Hand > Scraping" by Edward Connelly. I see it's offered, presumably as a > reprint, by http://www.machinetoolpublications.com/ (see the table > contents at http://

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> I have never seen such a material on this side of the pond, Jan. Where > does one get it? > DuPont makes it if I am not mistaken. It is used to make bearing bushes for valves and the like. The price is not quite up to Moglice standards. But $100 is also quickly paid for that stuff. I forget wh

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

On Thursday 23 August 2012 20:07:17 dave did opine: > On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 19:34 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 23 August 2012 19:23:17 Kent A. Reed did opine: > > > On 8/23/2012 12:02 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Thursday 23 August 2012 11:59:35 Mark Wendt did opine: > > > >> O

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On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 19:34 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 23 August 2012 19:23:17 Kent A. Reed did opine: > > > On 8/23/2012 12:02 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Thursday 23 August 2012 11:59:35 Mark Wendt did opine: > > >> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Gene Heskett > wrote: > >

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On Thursday 23 August 2012 19:38:47 Jan de Kruyf did opine: > Hallo, Gene. > I have on a few occasions glued brass filled teflon I have never seen such a material on this side of the pond, Jan. Where does one get it? > (with an etched > surface, otherwise the glue does not hold) onto the runn

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On Thursday 23 August 2012 19:23:17 Kent A. Reed did opine: > On 8/23/2012 12:02 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 23 August 2012 11:59:35 Mark Wendt did opine: > >> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> Hi all; > >>> > >>> I am still trying to put that ball screw in

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On Thursday 23 August 2012 19:11:54 Mark Wendt did opine: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:20 AM, John Thornton wrote: > > It is very likely your ways are not very precise and fit up properly > > as well as your gib being junk. > > > > Take a look at Nick Muller's videos on cheap chinese ways > > >

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On Thursday 23 August 2012 18:36:57 John Thornton did opine: > It is very likely your ways are not very precise and fit up properly as > well as your gib being junk. > > Take a look at Nick Muller's videos on cheap chinese ways > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1eOQa1gYiU&feature=player_embedd

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Hallo, Gene. I have on a few occasions glued brass filled teflon (with an etched surface, otherwise the glue does not hold) onto the running surface of a taper gib. Like 2mm thick or so. The stuff scrapes readily with the back of a stanley knife, quite quick. Blue, scrape, blue, scrape etc. until y

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

On 8/23/2012 12:02 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 23 August 2012 11:59:35 Mark Wendt did opine: > >> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> Hi all; >>> >>> I am still trying to put that ball screw in the X axis of my >>> mini-lathe, and as I was cleaning things up, getting

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 23 August 2012 11:59:35 Mark Wendt did opine: > >> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > Hi all; >> > >> > I am still trying to put that ball screw in the X axis of my >> > mini-lathe, and as I was cleaning th

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

On Thursday 23 August 2012 11:59:35 Mark Wendt did opine: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Hi all; > > > > I am still trying to put that ball screw in the X axis of my > > mini-lathe, and as I was cleaning things up, getting ready for the > > next step of the assembly,

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On Thursday 23 August 2012 11:18:58 andy pugh did opine: > On 23 August 2012 01:33, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Today as I was reassembling it and attempting to adjust the gib > > screws, I noted that the top face not only wasn't in contact with the > > bottom of the slider, the tip of it at the bott

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On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:44 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 23 August 2012 13:39, Mark Wendt wrote: > >> I had to do a bunch of work on the bottom ways on my lathe. The ways >> varied in thickness the entire length. > > My bottom ways on mine both fitted quite well. > Unfortunately they didn't both f

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On 23 August 2012 13:39, Mark Wendt wrote: > I had to do a bunch of work on the bottom ways on my lathe. The ways > varied in thickness the entire length. My bottom ways on mine both fitted quite well. Unfortunately they didn't both fit at the same time. Took quite a lot of work to sort out. -

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On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:20 AM, John Thornton wrote: > It is very likely your ways are not very precise and fit up properly as > well as your gib being junk. > > Take a look at Nick Muller's videos on cheap chinese ways > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1eOQa1gYiU&feature=player_embedded > > Jo

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It is very likely your ways are not very precise and fit up properly as well as your gib being junk. Take a look at Nick Muller's videos on cheap chinese ways http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1eOQa1gYiU&feature=player_embedded John On 8/22/2012 6:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Hi all; > > I am s

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On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Hi all; > > I am still trying to put that ball screw in the X axis of my mini-lathe, > and as I was cleaning things up, getting ready for the next step of the > assembly, I find that I have not fixed a gib problem this POS has had since > day

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On 23 August 2012 01:33, Gene Heskett wrote: > Today as I was reassembling it and attempting to adjust the gib screws, I > noted that the top face not only wasn't in contact with the bottom of the > slider, the tip of it at the bottom of the carriages v-cut was sharper than > the bottom of the car

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On Wednesday 22 August 2012 22:28:10 Mark Cason did opine: > On 08/22/2012 06:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Hi all; > > > > I am still trying to put that ball screw in the X axis of my > > mini-lathe, and as I was cleaning things up, getting ready for the > > next step of the assembly, I find th

Re: [Emc-users] General question about gibs

On 08/22/2012 06:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Hi all; > > I am still trying to put that ball screw in the X axis of my mini-lathe, > and as I was cleaning things up, getting ready for the next step of the > assembly, I find that I have not fixed a gib problem this POS has had since > day one, and l

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gene andy has a similar project on his gmail profile i think he had some photobucket shots or something, that british chap is pretty swift and this yankee was pretty impressed jeremy youngs -- Live Security Virtual Confere

[Emc-users] General question about gibs

Hi all; I am still trying to put that ball screw in the X axis of my mini-lathe, and as I was cleaning things up, getting ready for the next step of the assembly, I find that I have not fixed a gib problem this POS has had since day one, and likely cannot without a new, more precisely fitting g