On 3 April 2017 at 05:43, Cecil Thomas wrote:
> I succeeded in contriving a "ball nut catcher" which lets me attach
> the ball nut to the apron by simply moving the carriage to the right
> where the nut slides into the "catcher" and moving a lever.
> When I finish with the cnc operation I just mov
The half-nuts on my jet 9 inch lathe finally got so bad that I
decided to replace the Acme lead screw with a ball screw.
I bought the cheapest ebay kit with 12 mm screw, nut, nut block and
two supports.
I really don't like to be required to fire up the computer and the
control box and use the M
