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    So I've mostly gone with an idea Lee suggested, using 4mm pneumatic connectors/tube to supply lubrication to inaccessible parts:
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    On the HGH15's I couldn't find any suitable adaptors so had to turn up some barbed brass push on thingies:
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    Tried the same on the long axis, but then realised they would foul the ballscrew covers:
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    Tried spinning the ballnuts through 180 degrees but then found everything was seizing up - turned out the ballnuts weren't concentric on the screws - thanks Fred - so those are going to have to be a manual lube.
    On the subject of lubrication, does anyone know where I can buy a sensible quantity of synthetic semi-fluid grease please? Looks like to be the DB's for this sort of setup.
    Z-axis ont' gantry:
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    So onto the wiring... Found that the closed-loop steppers have the connectors on the encoder cables of such a length that they would sit in EXACTLY the wrong place - half way down the drag chain
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    ....so had to do some inline splicing......
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    and to finish off added a touch off probe socket into the base
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    So onto the wiring

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    >On the subject of lubrication, does anyone know where I can buy a sensible quantity of synthetic semi-fluid grease please?

    My mini-mill has no practical way to get oil to the ball-nuts or the bearings riding on the supported rails, instead I lift the rubber skirts every once in a while and squirt a load of a TF2 Teflon oil onto the shiny bits:

    https://www.google.com/search?q=tf2+...99006240699812

    No doubt this isn't the done thing, but having done it for five or so years, I'll probably keep doing it. There's logic for ya.

    Nice build BTW.

    Wal.

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