I made a new spacer block, a block to hold two bearings, with a
washer between the bearing and the spacer block. This allowed the
bearing outer race to be pinched between the spacer block and the
bearing block.
I made a new leadscrew, easy as I have a metric leadscrew, and turned
the shaft to be 2mm less in diameter than the original. I also made
the threaded portion approx 2" longer to allow more travel for the
Taig milling attachment I have.
This way I used smaller bearings and a sleeve between the handle
washer and the bearings to clamp the leadscrew to the inner race.
the original numbered dial fits over the sleeve and is held in place
with a set screw instead of the spring.
I sortof copied someone else's cross slide bearing mod, but not sure
where it was/is.
Here it is:
Projects/Cross_Slide_Mod/
Bob.
