Hi from Nottingham

[rinderpest]

Im well impressed with the welcome I've had; everyone seems to have a nice, constructive and helpful way about them. This morning I read loads of threads and the signal to noise ratio is great.
I dont post on forums at all - this is about the fourth I've joined and already I've made more posts here than everywhere else combined!

Michael, thats amazing especially with threaded rod. I downloaded the image and shrank it so it looked 30mm and it looks fantastic. And round too, lots less backlash than Id been led to expect from threaded rod.
Did you make your own nut out of plastic or preload two metal ones against each other?
I got some bog standard 8mm threaded rod and some stainless 8mm as well. The stainless is so much better fitting in those long nuts it seems like a different size.

If I get some of this '500mm TR16x4D Trapezoidal Leadscrew Spindle' from Marchant Dice it would be amazing if we could work something out with a bit of turning. I can help you with any electronics or computer stuff, and beer tokens as well of course.
I'll probably get my trapezoidal screw in a week or so but any turning can happen whenever suits you; I'll send you a PM soon.

Out of interest how long a leadscrew could your lathe turn?
In an ideal world I would have between 500 and 750mm for the X, 500mm for Y and 300 on Z.

Im dying to get my machine whizzing about as soon as possible.
I've been lurking and reading cnczone but joining here as well as getting my steppers delivered has made me get a shift on, build thread here I come.
Jim

[Lee Roberts]

I dont post on forums at all - this is about the fourth I've joined and already I've made more posts here than everywhere else combined!

That’s fantastic, a classic example of why I knew this site would be successful, the wealth of knowledge you can get access to is priceless.

RESPECT :dance: !

build thread here I come.

Woohooo ill be keeping an eye out for it Jim, if you use the site gallery to upload your pics, it will give you a line of code for each image that you can then paste into your posts as and when you would like to show the pics.

Any problems getting started send me a PM and ill help you.