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ACME or Ball?

Posted by ghidera2000
on 2003-09-01 04:48:40 UTC
I'm looking at putting together a small mill/drill for PCBs and
doing cutouts of plastic or sheet metal enclosures and front panels
( <= 1/4" thick). The mill working area would be a maximum of about
18" by 18". Traces would be pretty fine, between 0.0125" and 0.01"
and drilling for all the through-hole parts.

Think an ACME screw setup would do ok at this or are ball a must for
this level of precision?

Also, think the small ballscrews would be good here? In the reid
catalog I was looking at the TBS-17 screw and the precision nuts for
them. Would these be strong enough? I just can't see my application
requiring much in the way of brute strength...

Discussion Thread

ghidera2000 2003-09-01 04:48:40 UTC ACME or Ball? JanRwl@A... 2003-09-01 12:08:05 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] ACME or Ball? Jon Elson 2003-09-01 22:12:18 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] ACME or Ball? ballendo 2003-09-02 04:19:18 UTC Re: ACME or Ball? ghidera2000 2003-09-02 06:48:58 UTC Re: ACME or Ball? Jon Elson 2003-09-02 09:55:08 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: ACME or Ball? JanRwl@A... 2003-09-02 20:08:23 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: ACME or Ball? Dan Sergison 2003-09-03 07:42:43 UTC Re: ACME or Ball? Thomas Fritz 2003-09-03 07:47:35 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: ACME or Ball? Kim Lux 2003-09-03 08:51:33 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: ACME or Ball? Jon Elson 2003-09-03 09:22:03 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: ACME or Ball? ghidera2000 2003-09-03 19:59:57 UTC Re: ACME or Ball? turbulatordude 2003-09-03 20:53:50 UTC Re: ACME or Ball? ghidera2000 2003-09-03 21:36:43 UTC Re: ACME or Ball? ajv2803959 2003-09-04 03:06:17 UTC Re: ACME or Ball? ballendo 2003-09-04 04:16:28 UTC Re: ACME or Ball? JanRwl@A... 2003-09-04 12:33:00 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: ACME or Ball? JanRwl@A... 2003-09-04 12:40:26 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: ACME or Ball? ajv2803959 2003-09-04 23:06:44 UTC Re: ACME or Ball? turbulatordude 2003-09-05 03:53:05 UTC Re: ACME or Ball? - Measuring Backlash JanRwl@A... 2003-09-05 13:08:02 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: ACME or Ball? JanRwl@A... 2003-09-05 13:09:26 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: ACME or Ball? ballendo 2003-09-06 01:49:14 UTC Re: ACME or Ball? Wayne C. Gramlich 2003-09-07 11:48:22 UTC Re: ACME or Ball? Wayne C. Gramlich 2003-09-07 11:58:17 UTC Re: ACME or Ball?