Re: lead screw pitch

Posted by gittt2000

on 2002-11-23 04:24:04 UTC

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., Jon Elson <elson@p...> wrote:

> Ugh! This is a hard one. 5/16" is .312", but 7 mm is .315" I've

never

> seen a 7 mm ballscrew,
> but maybe they came up with that to use 5 mm balls.

Slip of the calculator there Jon - 7mm is 0.2756". Maybe you meant
8mm which is 0.31496" ?

> EMC will have no problem with odd encoder counts, but some other
> programs that require
> integer numbers for counts/inch might be a problem.

They wouldn't sell very well outside the USA then :)

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