Broken V Wheels, now what?

Community Discussion 📄 General
1

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?

2

Hi Cerebus,

Not familiar with the MK1 but maybe yoiu can make a slide out of wood to fit the rail the wheel runs on and switch the lower wheels on the y-axis out to use on the x-axis.

The y-axis will move way less then the x so it might just give enough support to slide out your project?

3

Possibly. I’ll try that.

4

Can to that for now but can have parts shipped from the store fairly quick. As them to rush them.