Room for everybody was Re: Threaded Rod WORKS!

Bob,

I applaud John K's minimalist approach... But,

On this list people are "doing" cnc for many different reasons, and
with VERY different needs and expectations.

Some will be very happy just to have a machine that moves somewhat
repeatably. Period. Others are wanting/needing to work to better
than .001 accuracies.

And this distinction IS NOT drawn between "amateur" and "commercial"
users! It depends on the parts needed. AND the material!

One of the things that I find a little frustrating is that the
majority of posts on this list seem to refer to CNC as used for METAL
working. And "tight" tolerances. CNC is applicable FAR beyond "just"
metal. Where are the woodworkwers? Where are the plastic workers? The
engravers? The pc bd makers?

I think Chris Strattons recent post about cyclic variations "ruining"
his tubing mandrel? to be one of the more useful bits of info shared
recently. Something many wouldn't otherwise "think of"...

We have seen the list recently become "re-aimed" at the home shop
user. Okay. I hope that we will ALSO see some of those who work in
that "home shop" with OTHER than metal, at all levels of accuracy
needs, feeling free to speak up...

Hope this helps.

Ballendo

P.S. What I'm saying is that there may be many who just don't speak
up because they may feel that their 100 step/inch machine will
not "measure up"... Or that a question about depositing glazes on
tiles to be fired (with cnc) will find no answers...

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "cncdxf" <cncdxf@a...> wrote:
> Hi Ballendo,
> I suspect the people who had trouble with threaded
> rod used a regular nut also. Tapping a piece of 1/2" Delrin to
> run on the nut works great. I also suspect they used coarse
> threaded rod. John K got me to use <snip>