You wouldn't happen to be a millenium by any chance? Plug and play machine tools? As someone in the machine repair industry coming up 40 years. Your disappointments, are the exact opposite of mine.
First: Its not a Brass Nut, they would be Bronze. How fucked up can you be if you don't know the difference between brass and bearing bronze. And you can kid yourself until next Sunday, the wear on the screw is there. It would be rude to expect a new nut to fit a screw that's already worn out one nut. Your just bull shiting your self to expect that you can buy a new nut to fit an old screw. There are standard's for this. Dr. George Schlinger, would have specified back lash at about 0.02mm, (That would be 8 tenths for you).
Ever heard of this hand scraping / hand fitting capper. Ever heard of adjusting gibs? Surely that move's the saddle over. And moves the centre line from the slide to the screw, alignment due to wear. Yet you want Dowel holes, from the factory. You are aware dowel holes are about the absolute best positioning of any two components.
Wouldn't you produce them, when you have the best possible alignment, according to the position / wear of your slide at the time? I regret to inform you, sounds to me, that's the kind of nut with 3 bolt holes and two dowels and a right angle face that attaches to the cross slide. The height won't be right also. You managed to miss that critical alignment. It will have 1 mm of stock to mill, grind and hand scrape to bring it to centre line, as the height changes with wear.
I buy parts from noble companies such as: Mazak, Okuma, Waldrich, Hegenscheidt. If they ever sent me a gib that's not 6" longer than I need it to hand fit, and chop off what I don't need. I've never seen a nut and screw, that wasn't matched / paired as an assembly. Yet your expecting plug and play. (From Jet).
Seriously BRASS feed screws? Does that not tell us something of your understanding?
I think you have know idea of machine fiting.
You should be proud of yourself. I wouldn't have been bothered, except I'm still on holidays and bored. You got some traction.
Come next Monday, I'd write you off for a Home Shop Harry, that thought his feed nuts where BRASS. I regret to inform you, it's really obvious, how little you know. But that can wait until next Monday, when I get back on deck....Then I'll tell you what I really think.
In the meantime.
#Jet owner with no clue. #Unreal expectations. # I thought my bits would fit. # I'm going to get even when they don't. # Thought my yellow metal was brass # Why cant I plug & play. # I:m so hard done by. # Why aren't those pricks sympathetic to me.
You might be better over at the HAPPY home shop harry site;
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I'm sure they will blow some smoke up your arse.
How'd you go with that Jet Jihad?
Regards Phil.
