Has anyone McGuyvered something together for a broken v wheel before in a pinch? I’m using a laser on the longmill, so tramming correctly isn’t going to be as crucial.
I have my longmill mk1 on a rolling cart that folds up vertically for storage. When I pulled out the machine today, I noticed two of the delrin v wheels were broken - one on each side of the X gantry. I need to run a job tomorrow, but I don’t have any spare wheels.
The top-rear wheel on each side of the X gantry failed. I’m going ti try swapping the broken wheels with the front-left and rear-right wheels so there’s support on top. If that doesn’t work, I could try to turn some wheels on the lathe, but that’s not ideal and I won’t have the time for that, either. Time crunch for a project, so of course this happened.
Shot in the dark, but any ideas aside from ordering replacement wheels and waiting for them to get here?