Any one know the original supplier of the ball screws that Stepcraft use?

OOPS!! Typos galore. Thanks Worldhusky for that link - fascinating how some of these oddities arise. Peter

Hi, Sorry - I've been a bit lax in my terminology, I written lead screw on occasions when I should have said ball screw. I think lead screw is pro...

Hi Finch So Stepcraft use a non-standard lead screw - that's a bummer!! It looks just like the Eichenberger ones too. I guess any new screws wo...

Hi, I'd just found Moore myself - looks promising. I'll fire off an email to Moore expressing potential interest and see what they can offer in ...

Hi Wow!! A solution at last perhaps. I wonder if the original Stepcraft ballscrews can be retained or if they would need to be replaced - hopeful...

Hi Per, Thanks for your comments - perfectly sensible. I had checked the MDF spoil board before I started the clock, and amazingly it was flat t...

Hi Per, That's about as close as I managed, though I haven't measured mine directly!! I've been making some gears for a wooden clock recently, a...

Well, we have had continual y axis jams as a result of the bushing system. And attempted, I think 8-9 large 3d prints with around 6 rolls of pla.... n...

What would be ideal would be to replace the nuts on the leadscrew with ball nuts - trouble is that these are really expensive items!! They would not...

Click on one of the little green sided boxes at the left of the "screen" - they let you see your project from different sides or from the top.

Can you release the setscews in the coupling sleeve between stepper motor and leadscrew - you might be able to gain a mm or so there before tightening...

I was only thinking of the double sided as an alternative to the cyanoacrylate. The "Diall" tape I used is fine at room temperature but looses th...

Just to complete the picture, I've done some more tests to find the repeatability and hysteresis of my homemade probe. I used a 10:1 lever arrangem...

The switches have already been proven to operate correctly by patching them into the ESD circuit - so it does point to a board fault rather than a swi...