Re: Thk slides

When the race gets nearly full, bearings will start to

> push out of the recirculating channel as you push new ones in.

Then you

> should run the traveler back and forth to take up slack space between
> the balls, until there is no more room to insert more balls, and your
> done. Checking from underneath the traveler will indicate whether

there

> are still gaps in the stack of balls. It can be surprisingly

difficult

> to get the empty spaces out from between the balls in the circuit.
>
> HTH,
> Dave

Ball screws may be easer then. I found the recirculating tubing to
be a half tubing that would lift out ever-so-slightly and then open
like a clam.

You had mentioned that balls are available in different places.
McMaster has 1/8" balls in three grades, plain, chromed and ground,
but only in 1/8". I would like to get sizes around that,some
smaller, some larger, to allow me to adjust a ball screw.

Any ideas where to get some that are off-size ?

Dave