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You guys did get me thinking about my Y travel. I inserted a 2.5 inch spacer block behind my Y mounting plate. I'm now getting 10.2 inches of y travel. I'm afraid to use a bigger spacer block or...

Out of curiosity, I just measured my Y travel and it's only 7.7 inches, and that's after extending it with an external ballscrew. I'm guessing my actual y travel was less than 7 inches stock.

I doubt you're interested but using an external ballscrew allowed me to slide my y axis out as farther. If someone would remind me of the stock y travel and I could measure the difference.

Thanks for the tip. I'm going to have to look into those.

Thanks for the comments.

I've been on the lookout for some sort of expanding boot to enclose the ballscrews but I haven't found anything yet. I still have a few other things I would like to work...

I started on this close to a year ago. I came up with an external ballscrew design (I haven't seen external screws used before but maybe somebody can tell me if it's not really new) for the Z and Y...