Thanks for posting those pics.....
I do not understand however your ballnut setup there. It seems to me that if you use a plate attatched to the ballnut return threaded holes and it is obviously a rigid setup then you have not really preloaded the ballnuts, they are just fixed relative to each other. The slight irregularities of the ballscrew do not have anywhere to go but to force the ballnuts apart. Maybe I am missing something but I was under the impression that to properly preload a ballnut assembly you need to have one ballnut fixed to the mount and then spring load the other ballnut either towards or away from the other ballnut yet still allow it to float against that spring pressure. The preload setup I am using allows the floating nut I will call it to do just that, it floats yet is not allowed to unscrew away from the fixed nut allowing for the preload spring pressure to give and take as the screw thread expands and contracts with heat and the subtle irregularities of the threadform. Am I missing something here? I suppose it is working for you tho from the looks of the parts you are making with it.... good work and peace...
Yeah that is what I was saying.....
Even if the collar has spring washers in it, it threads onto the second nut and compresses the washers pushing the two nuts apart. The only way I can see that this would work is if you were to preload the nuts apart measuring the amount of spring deflection to get the necessary preload weight and then measured your hole distance and machined that fixing plate to hold the two at that distance. The thing is that even tho the two are technically preloaded, they are fixed and the only movement available is the backlash in the balls inside the nuts since the nuts cannot move independently of one another. Does that make sense? I have a friend here who has come up with a great idea for a preloaded ballnut setup that uses only one machined part. Country Bubba(don't let the name fool ya) designed a cool threaded collar that houses some spring wavy washers and is pinned to the mount by a shcs. Works real nice and is easy to adjust. If you look at the pictures on my thread" Finally getting started" you will see what I am talking about.... easy simple design and again uses only one custom part that is easily machined in the lathe. Another nice thing about this design is it placed the two ballnuts on either side of the mount to make for less travel restrictions either direction. Peace....