Taig Couplers

[Bob La Londe]

Had a bind up today and twisted off the nylon tubes in the coupler of the z-axis. I know I have seen that tube somewhere before in bulk, but I can't think of it. Anybody? I have a job I need to finish so I'm hoping its something common I can pick up in the morning.

I guess I can turn some delrin in the mini lathe, but I hate to waste my meager stock of delrin on stuff like that.

[rowbare]

Home Depot might have something similar in the plumbing dept. Another option to get you going might be to take a ball point pen apart and use the ink tube.

bob

[digit23]

r/c car antenna tube

[Bob La Londe]

Thanks guys.

[Roger N]

I had a similar problem with my Taig mill and called Micro Proto support. They told me to use the tube from a ball point pen refill.

[Bob La Londe]

I think I remembered what that nylon tube is. Air lines like used on pneumatic shocks between the shrader valve and the shock when it has a remote mounted schrader valve. Harley's use it on many of the ElectraGlide models if I recall. They use black tube I think, but I have seen other applications using clear tube also.

[Bob La Londe]

I stopped by Bingham Autoparts (Carquest) on the way back to the shop from doing a service call, and asked if they had any of that air line. They had it in black, and just gave me a foot of it. Seems like a perfect fit. The little Taig is back up and running.

[Bob La Londe]

Well, I've got about 25 hours run time on the "air line" pins with no problems.