Originally Posted by
X2cnc
I asked CNCFusion as well; he said the balls should be .1250. I'm confident my micrometer is correct; I set it with gage blocks and I used to do a lot of measuring to tenths.
That leads me to believe the missing .0012" is due to the distortion of the ball by the micrometer.
So, (and the reason I brought this up over here instead of just asking CNCFusion) how *do* you measure teeny balls like that?
Perhaps you wound up with Chinese balls?
I wish NC CAMS was still around. He would definitely know.
Toby D.
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