On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 6:01 AM, andy pugh <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3 May 2014 04:37, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Because the carriage isn't front weighted enough (the x motor is on the > > rear), it does tend to turn about a thou as it rises off the v-way to > bring > > the front gib in solid restraining contact, and that is best handled > with a > > back out move before the retrace move. Adjusting those gibs is a genuine > > chore as the only way to access the adjustments is to drop the apron > > coupling and run the apron and nut out of the way. > > Here is a set of pictures of how I made some tapered gibs for my 9x > (which is a stretched 7x) > https://picasaweb.google.com/108164504656404380542/Gibbs > > > -- > atp > If you can't fix it, you don't own it. > http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto > Andy, Looks very similar to the ones I made for my 7 x 12 using a design borrowed from Rick Kruger (now a good fly fishing buddy of mine). Gene, if you feel like making tapered gibs fer the leetle guy, I can dig up the like to the drawings for ya. I may be able to talk Rick out of the CAD drawings if he still has them tucked away somewhere. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available. Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
