Hi Bill I had the travers housing and reverse gears printed in metal like I said I planned to do. I am not happy with the quality/finish though; not sure if it was the chinesium manufacturing or the technology that is the culprit as I am getting conflicting?information. I have installed the parts but yet to cut anything since so I am holding off on sharing my CAD and experience until I have a couple of cuts made.? Fo anyone interested; I took Bill's diagram from a couple of years ago and created a CAD model out of it. His was the only model that fit my lathe; many others' did not for some reason. Happy to share with anyone; I printed it in plastic?to gauge fit and it looked good. My aluminium printed version resulted in more backlash on the carriage?hand wheel than expected even though neither the rack or the gear seems to have a lot of wear. What is normal here? I have something like 1/5th of a turn before?it engages...? On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 at 09:14, Bill in OKC too via <wmrmeyers=[email protected]> wrote:
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