Greetings, check my math if you have time. The screw, measured from bottom of ball groove to the ball groove half a turn away from it, is about 8.12mm. That .12mm is probably the angle that the caliper is sitting at
Then add 3.175mm for the diameter of the two 1/16th" balls, and get 11.295mm to the OD of the ball grooves in the nut. The nut itself is 19.07mm in diameter. It seems to me I out to be able to take 2mm off each side (top and bottom) of the nut to get it down to 15mm without causing any deterioration in the ability of the nut to do its thing. I'll literally sand it off with a large dremel diamond wheel, which will do it without any heat to speak of at 2500 revs, a job I can start & check on the progress of tomorrow. :) Then write some code to carve this double D flat pocket in another block of steel that will clear the existing screw trench in the bottom of the table. One belly curve will be about a 1.2mm wider to clear the ball return tube. Other than needing to procure some fresh mills for such a deep digging operation, I think I can do it. Can anyone shoot me down? 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> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "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 Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
