Bit of a flood ! And a couple of questions.

[Ollie78]

Hello

I have not been on here much for a while ( largely because my machine has been working very well ).

However I discovered yesterday that i have had a burst pipe in my workshop upstairs which has of course made its way through to the downstairs...

Hence this !


Excuse the general disatrous shape of the workshop I had just abandonned ship and then started moving stuff when I discovered the flood.

Can`t seem to rotate images but you get the idea.

It could have been leaking for a few days, the guy in the next unit called to tell me because it was going into his side otherwise I wouldn`t have noticed till today.

So, of course, there is going to need to be a bit of a rebuild situation to say the least.
The top is bending like a banana, I have no idea if any of the electronics or the PC will work though some bits have escaped full monsoon (drying the PC out in front of the fire right now).

I am thinking now may be the time to sort out a few things I have not had the opportunity to do previously.

Firstly, I have two noisy bearings and so will replace the bk/bf blocks, the ballscrews are 25mm but turned down to 15mm at the fixed end and 15mm ( threaded part ) then 12m by the coupler. So it looks like I need BK15 and BF15 blocks, is this correct ?

While I was looking at it I thought maybe replace the ballnut as I have to take it apart quite a bit anyway but I can see no markings at all on the part and I wonder how to make sure to get the right ones regarding pitch etc.

This is it



I put a ruler on it but not sure exactly where to measure to and from.



Any ideas ?

Secondly, I plan to do drag chains and redo the wiring and add back in the limit switches I removed.
I would like to use some kind of connectors at either end, at the moment everything is chocolate blocks or just wired straight in.
I like the type of thing found in car connections like the deutsch connectors or that kind of thing. I know its not strictly needed but would make it easier for future maintanance is there a go to connector for this.

Thirdly. I would really like to do a better control cabinet, its currently in a pc case and at this time my VFD is separate and not wired to the BOB which I keep meaning to do.
I had a look at this from cnc drive and thought it a pretty neat solution ( I already run UCCNC and there eth 300 controller which I like ).

http://shop.cncdrive.com/index.php?productID=1090

Does it represent good value, (assuming I can actually get one shipped here after the stupidity of brexit )?

I am not particularly good at electronics but think I could probably do a similar setup myself but it would take me ages and I would be worried about cocking it up, unless I had very thorough instructions to follow.
Any alternatives.?

Thanks

Ollie