Re: Dry Lube for Ball Screws
Originally Posted by
louieatienza
I wish I remembered the thread, but someone here a long while back took strip brush, rolled it into a circle, and used that as a wiper. Other than that, the only other way is to fabricate or buy bellows (they make round ones to slip over ballscrews) and pump air in them. Doesn't have to be a lot of air either; just enough that it has some light pressure, to keep the dust out...
I am one of the ones that made/uses a brush rolled into a circle for a wiper on my mill/drill. That was somewhere back around 2000 and it still works just fine. The biggest help though is having some sort of shielding (way cover) to keep most of the swarf out of the screw to begin with.
Art
AKA Country Bubba (Older Than Dirt)