Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re:Alternative Stepper Motor mountings, etc.

Rab

Tygon is a brand name for a clear plastic tubing. MSC lists it but the
stuff at your local hardware store will probablely work. You need something
with a thick enough wall, fairly stiff and which will grip the shafts.
Experiment, mine is out of my junk box so I can't be sure of its brand. I
used Tygon more as a generic description.

Jeff

At 08:32 AM 02/14/2001 -0000, you wrote:

>Jeff,
>
>Is Tygon some brand name of flexable plastic ?
>Sounds cheap and simple compared with the helical couplers.
>
>Rab
>
>> Even lower tech than a "slitted" coupler is a piece of Tygon or
>similer
>> tubing. A mm or so between shafts compensates for miss-alignment
>and with
>> fine pitch screws any wind up is small and elastic.
>> If you are worried about this check out the price on helical
>couplers :-{
>>
>> Jeff