mill drill gibs was Dan Ms' Mill drill Re: GeckoDrives.. Servo motor

Re: mill/drill gibs

Drill and tap the gib for a plate which "closes the gap". Use
loctite, or similar threadlocker(light duty type) on the adjustment
screw. Cheap, fast, simple, works.

Ballendo

>Did you do anything with your gibb adjustments? On mine the slot in
>the gibb that the adjustment screw head rides in is wider than the
>screw head and the gibb moves back and forth a bit everytime the

axis changes direction. Also there is no way to lock the adjustment
down, so It wanders

> > >around on it's own.
>
> I ended up brazing a bracket on the end of the gib so I could do a

decent adjustment and have it stay put.

>
> Dave