Re: Linear table actuator

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "Graham Stabler" <eexgs@n...>
wrote:

>
> via google:
>
> http://www.williamsform.com/Threaded_Bars/C-
> 1045_Coil_Threaded_Bar/coil_threaded_bars.html
>
> it is a threaded rod with round bottoms to the grooves, the bars

look

> a little like ballscrews. Nuts are available but are of course just
> like normal nuts. You could probably use a length of the rod to make
> a tap and tap delrin nuts that would be a tight fit as some have done
> with acme bar to avoid the cost of a tap.
>
> Graham
>

Graham, thanks for the link - as you say the thread form does look very
like a ballscrew. What form of nuts did you use yourself?

John.