Re: Re: Ballscrew question

> From: "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason@...>
> Subject: Re: Ballscrew question
>
> On Tuesday 24 February 2004 10:07 pm, yodawill2000 wrote:
> > Im about to convert My RF31 clone to ballscrews as the backlash
> > will be intolarable after the cnc hardware is installed ..
> > Heres my question for the Guru's ..
> > Do the singlenut ballscrews have noticable backlash ??
> > Or is the more costly doublenut screws the only way to go ...
> >
> > I realize the doublenuts are superior but Im curious if the
> > singlenuts will be good enough ..
>
> Being relatively on top of a lot of the electronics stuff but not so
> much so in the case of the machine-shop stuff, how do you determine
> what's up with backlash? What's an acceptable amount of it?