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17-04-2017 #1
I have a home made 3 axis wood router (working area 1100mm x 700mm).
It is now basically an extremely competent machine having been upgraded over the months & years.
What I do suffer with is lash (to be expected at speed) on my long (x) axis, this uses Trapezoidal ACME threaded bar (yes I know but it was cheap and has worked up to now).
I'd like to change the x and maybe the y axis to rack and pinion.
I've looked at the commercially available stuff and am not sure that I can easily make the available profiles work with my machine and it is pretty expensive.
Has anyone made their own rack in Acetal? I have machined a fair bit of Acetal on this machine and always had good results.
Any comments or tips?
DaveLast edited by davo453; 17-04-2017 at 05:59 PM.
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