Greetings; I decided to remove the saddle & see what I could come up with, with the idea of making the screw in boss the crossfeed handle into the thrust anchor, with room for the nuts etc to get it clamped onto the X drive screw.
I hit paydirt on that in that I now have removed about an oz of cast iron and gained lost of room to make everything work. But the first thing I did was open the garage door to get room to slide the cross slider off the rear of the saddle. And when I had done that, what fell out into my hand but the gib. Well machined yadda yadda. Just one problem, the SOB is made out of aluminum! So, what the heck do I do about that? Cross section wise they look to be pretty much the same size as any other similarly adjusted gibs, but of course 2x the length? Is it possible to buy ready made steel or brass gib strips that (about 18") long, where I could slide them in, bring in the dog screws and mark them & then mill on the mark? Also, is anyone selling way wipers? These are worn off about 20 thou short of sitting on the ways _& actually wiping. Thanks everybody. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
