Mark Wrathall wrote:

Paul Wrote> >

Yes on the knee mills. I  don't know whether they handle the ball screws
but McMaster Carr sells them at reasonable prices.

Mark wrote:
The cheap ballscrews in the Mcmaster-Carr catalog are rolled, and thus not
of machine quality (I think the error spec is 0.003" per inch. For a machine
you really need precision (ground ball screws). Price is bad.

Mark.

Well then it is cheaper to buy a used Kasuga or Shizouka. Harrison found
a used Kasuga in Tucson AZ for $3000 that was built later than  mine and was 
in better physical shape with Fadal tool changer. He had to do some electronic 
work to get it running however.

Paul Lamar

 
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