Bridgeport BOSS drawings

Wayne Weedon wrote:

>Jon Elson wrote:
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>>Hello, all,
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>>Does anyone have drawings of the Bridgeport BOSS table/saddle
>>components? I have been working on a Series-I BOSS saddle and
>>knee for retrofit to my manual round-ram Bridgeport. I had been
>>planning on using the original 9x32" table, but I'm starting to
>>think I'm going to have a problem with getting all these parts
>>to work together. I have a BOSS X-axis ballscrew with the rotating
>>nut assembly. But, I'm having a real problem figuring out how
>>this nut mounted to the saddle. (One reason to not use a BOSS
>>table is I'd like to get at least 20" of X travel, I think the standard
>>BOSS with the small table only moves 18".)
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>Jon
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>If it's anything like a series 1 Interact then the ballnut was not
>mounted but driven by the servo. The screw was stationary!
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Yes, that is the ballnut system I have. The nut is mounted in a tube
between bearings. The bearings mount in a block, but I can't see how the
block mounts to the saddle. Maybe it mounts to the SIDE of the saddle,
and that part is missing.

Jon