I recently bought a Taig ball screw mill and it has a shorter x travel than the old standard mill. Are there any thing to do about that? Will it be pssible to cut the end stop plate in any ways so it goes a bit longer?
I think you will need a longer ball screw but that will only be practical if the end support bracket (one one end) can be extended to give you a bit more travel.....how much more travel will depend on the design of the machine itself.
The CNC mill I have was fitted with a double ball nut on the X axis and that meant having an extended end support bracket specially made for it.
Ian.
My old standard mill didn´t have any stop plate at all at that side so the end of the screw hang freely in the air at that side and that allowed the x slide to travel 4 - 5 cm more. My thought was that it maybe was possible to cut the stop plate and the plate it run into in a way that allow the stop plate to drive through that area and further inwards towards the nut like the standard x slide did.
Here is a picture of the standard x slide end and as you can see there is no stop plate there.
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Is it possible to increase the x travel?
