[turbostang]

Does anyone offer a ball screw/nut and servo mount kit for these machines?

I currently own one of the IH clones (the bigger of the two) and would love to be able to purchase a ready made kit for it - as I don't have another machine to make the parts on.

FWIW, I already have the CNC4PC breakout board, geckos, servos etc.

I'm not totally against buying another smaller mill to do the manual parts on if I have to, but I could be up and running a lot faster if I had a bolt on kit ready to go.

[jetflatline]

Mine look a bit like standard-issue screw/nut kits that were roughly cut to length. I didn't write down the part #s before installing them, but I basically just drilled/tapped holes to match the ball kit.

[turbostang]

Nice, I hoped it would be that easy.

The chinese vendor on ebay looks promising, and seemed to be what a lot of people used with decent results.

Any idea what kind/brand/part number bearings you used on the lead screws?

[skray775]

What are you looking for?

I have drawings of the ball screws, bearing,bearing blocks I used on MTW mill but I had to make the bearing blocks.

I don't think there are any ready made kits.

[ViperTX]

Kelly, post any into you have. I've been thinking of getting a MTW IH Clone.

Thanks,
Paul

[skray775]

My build thread is here:
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