the time has come! clogged! sick of pulling apart ballscrews! the number of times i count to 68! (theres 70 balls in every nut and of course you slip at the last second or two...)

leadscrew covers for the x2 after attaching a cncfusion kit... ive thought long and hard about it...


funky sliding plastic spiral things! nah... the y axis just seemed daunting...

hit me today, leather washers just pulled, cleaned and reassembled the screws...

packed with grease, and a leather washer punched and slit slightly to scrape the thread clean, and it looks like its working well

so.

the y and z are the nasty ones.

the y especially cops it. ive got vinyl shrouds but stuff still gets in there. real nasty when i do steel.

basically...im just going to make two small plates to cover one end of the nut which will be screwed down to the alloy ball mut holders, retaining the washer, and two recessed split clamps to clamp on the large, unthreaded end of the nut, retaining the washer there... nice clean screws from now on

anything else is just deviating from KISS...



hate having to sort things out just when setting up to do something more constructive!