Quote Originally Posted by Jonathan View Post
The cutting force on a CNC router is a few tens of newtons, even when taking 'heavy' cuts in wood or aluminium. There's an additional force when acceleration so lets say 100N. The RM1610 ballscrews are rated for something like 7800N for one million revolutions, so operating at 100N they will last for a very long time. Hence you don't need a bigger screw unless critical speed is an issue, which according to your experiment and the calculation it isn't for this length (1450mm) and RM1610.
Jonathan, your good with this maths stuff.

I have a gantry that weighs approximately 80kg with spindle. With a decent rate of acceleration let's assume its set to 1000 and 160 steps per in mach with dual RM2010 and 4Nm motors. How much kinetic energy is transferred to the motors when doing a direction change at say 1000rpm or 10m/min? You got to decelerate that 80kg in a very short space of time and I'd hate to think how big this number is going to be or if the motors can even handle that.