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Long time has passed.. .. Meantime i looked up the general tolerances of extruded aluminium profile from manucfactures like ITEM, BOSCH and so on,...
To end this story: This last mounting I described works very well, because the gantry plates are fixed to each other with 4 screws which are...
Hello, new and more flexible approach: Now I managed to get all wheels in contact with the c-bréam profile with approximately the same force on...
Now I found a mounting with which I get a fairly well balanced force on each wheel. First I clamped the 2 gantry plates together including 4...
Hello Jeffmorris, 1 mm shim + 6,2 mm gantry plate + 46 mm to the other gantry plate (including an extra 1 mm shim) + 6,2 mm gantry Plate + 1mm...
Oops, lots of time and pleasure to improve the adjustment of the wheels. It works, all wheels get contact to the c-beam profiles, that was the...
I found the reason for the too small distances between the gantry plates, should have put grease below the excenters and tighten the screws less...
I will try: 6mm spacer + 1mm precision shim + 11mm wheel + 4mm M5-nut = 22 mm for a single sided wheel mounting + the same arrangement on the...
Hello Rick 2.0, Thanks a very very lot! So the wheels contain a metallic spacer in their center along the axis, that is fine. I think I will fix...
1) What is the exact distance between the gantry plates; or more precise: the distance from the inside of the left gantry plate to the inside of...
:DIn a list of a portuguese OB reseller I read that Tronixmaker in Begium, where I bought, is an official Openbuilds reseller. a) Is this...
Hello helping people, many thanks for instant reply! I use drill presses, always. I dismounted all gantry plates and already paired the plates...
Is this normal: when I had mounted all 8 wheels between the 2 gantry plates, and when I had introduced the C-beam Alu profile, I only managed to...
Long time passed, meanwhile I built a drill which is drilling PERPIDICULAR holes into the POM-material (Delrin). I checked my drill it with an...
only 5 words: tropo caro (the only italian very useful words which my parents were tought by a friend before they went to Italy many decades...
Hello Christian, it is nice to correspond to some on the opposite site this planet; also late this day I could reply to a email from you one day...
@Christian: you wrote "they need to maintain alignment with the L/S when tightening the clamp screws" what is L/S, I am from Germany, not a...
@GrayUK: you wrote: "you have replaced the original "Backlash Nut" with a square piece of plastic with a hole drilled through it" No, the "...
Hi everybody, I am from Germany and bought an openbuilds 1010 lead .. kit. When I had mounted the gantry set plate, image 1, and inserted for a...
