Re: Ballscrew with machined ends, were to purchase?????

I posted about this roughly one year ago, with only one real response:
someone told me I just needed to find a 'mom & pop grinding house'
that handled centerless grinding and they could do it for, by his
estimate, about $100. I contacted every machine shop in town that
would handle such a small job and some that wouldn't just to see if
they had any recommendations. In the end, only one shop would do it,
and for grinding 3 ends of 1" ball screw, they wanted $300. I
contacted the guy off list, after he offered to help me out, but
shortly he just stopped responding to my emails.

Numerous people told me I could do it myself with a grinding wheel
attachment and a lathe. After enough delays and endless frustration, I
decided to do it myself, but with an angle grinder, which I had handy.
I guess my whole setup is pretty difficult to explain (my lathe
doesn't have a big enough bore to handle the 1" screw) but it got the
job done. It was actually pretty ugly, but the truth is it didn't matter.

In retrospect, with the amount of time it took, $100 would have been a
great bargain, and $300 isn't really that bad a deal either. It's
certainly well worth the cost to upgrade to ball screws. On the other
hand, I hear a ferrari is "well worth the cost" but I can't afford one
of those either.

I just bought standard ball screws from McMaster; I have no illusions
about what sort of tolerances I actually achieve or need, and the
price difference between ground and rolled screws is pretty sizeable.

Feel free to ask more specific questions. I'll answer if I can.