Repacking nut... numbering on diverters?

[Clive S]

Clive - cheers - that's a pretty good video you've linked to - had the wife giggling in the corner listening to men packing their balls.

Next bit of fun... I tried printing a packing tool to help on this job (I do still have one spare ball nut somewhere)....




Isn't that cool!!!

Now, look closely at the thread rotation.

My how I laughed.

Another 3 hours to print this the correct way.


Oh, you might want one of these https://www.sparkfun.com/products/retired/10622

In time you printed that you could have packed 10 ball nuts. Nice find on the kit though

[Lee Roberts]

I don't think the numbers matters, I've never followed any convention resulting in conviction.

I've re-packed quite a few of these so if you get stuck and want to send it to me only the postage cost is involved.

I do the same and load the nut up with enough grease to keep the balls in place but not to much you cant see what your doing, you can use the screw or a nicely sized pipe to keep them in place as you re-load each circuit.

1605 balls are 3.175mm (1/8") size
1610 balls are 2.778mm (7/64") size

1605 has 3 circuits
1610 has 2 circuits

17 balls in each circuit.

[Doddy]

Cheers Lee... the irony is that I had a spare nut - one that you sold me a couple of years ago that's finally found a home in a machine (my original plans for the screw went south). I'll try repacking the other one when I clean the shed up (at the moment the interior is covered in Ali chips & WD40 from the machining of the various brackets for this conversion... not ideal environment for repacking!)