On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 04:04 AM, drmico60 wrote:
The advantage of moving the nut to the end of the cross slide is that it enable a split delrin nut so if eventually some backlash occurs then it can be adjusted and the back lash eliminated. I have had the delrin nut in place for several years and I have never had to adjust out the backlash!!
I think it should be possible to attach a small shelf to the back of the standard OEM crosslide and then fit the split delrin nut to it.
I didn't move the brass/bronze (?) nut. I 'milled' the slide with my router and left the nut in the original spot. But a split nut sounds like an excellent idea for eliminating/reducing backlash.It seems to me that it doesn't matter how much space is between the two parts of a 'split' nut; the important thing is that the two nuts are 'out of sync' a small amount to tighten the fit of the threaded shaft. So adding a secondary nut at the back of the slide might be a possibility? I haven't thought through the details on this, so it may not be practical or any less work than moving the stock nut.
