Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO]Screw drive

At 10:56 27/03/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>Folks!
>Yesterday I stumbled upon "Model Engineer's Workshop" magazine.
>Besides other interesting staff there was an article on making your own
>screw drive as a replacement for a ball screw.
>I'm amazed at how easy and inexpensive is to make this kind of drive -
>basically its an arrangment of three short screws, belonging to a nut,
>around the drive screw. One short screw can be tightened to adjust
>the backlash.
>It looks like anyone can make this kind of drive in a matter of hours.
>Cheap too.
>Alex

Yes - that looked like a neat idea. However, the downside is that they take
up *a lot* more space than the equivalent ball screw.


Regards,
Tony