Re: Making a New, Elliptical Compound Thrust Plate/Large Dial Upgrade
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What a marvelous?piece of work! Such an upgrade to the original it is a serious temptation.? ?Bll in Boulder
On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 1:18?PM Rick Kruger < krugerr@...> wrote: Operation has been fixed, by installing a thrust bearing and a ball bearing, inboard and outboard of the thrust plate and a sleeve for the graduated dial to ride on.? The sleeve corrects the tendancy of the dial to cant and bind the rotation and provides something for the hex nut to clamp against as preload.? Compound is snug and smooth, the only thing to deal with now is the backlash, some other time.?
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