# Broken V Wheels, now what?

**URL:** <https://forum.sienci.com/t/broken-v-wheels-now-what/12466>\
**Category:** 📄 General\
**Created:** [June 7, 2024, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.sienci.com/t/broken-v-wheels-now-what/12466 "2024-06-07T02:23:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![cerberus](https://forum.sienci.com/user_avatar/forum.sienci.com/cerberus/32/8005_2.png) [@cerberus](https://forum.sienci.com/u/cerberus)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.sienci.com/t/broken-v-wheels-now-what/12466/1 "2024-06-07T02:23:21Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![Spamming\_Eddie](https://forum.sienci.com/user_avatar/forum.sienci.com/spamming_eddie/32/7296_2.png) [@Spamming\_Eddie](https://forum.sienci.com/u/Spamming_Eddie)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 8:27am UTC](https://forum.sienci.com/t/broken-v-wheels-now-what/12466/2 "2024-06-07T08:27:38Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![cerberus](https://forum.sienci.com/user_avatar/forum.sienci.com/cerberus/32/8005_2.png) [@cerberus](https://forum.sienci.com/u/cerberus)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 11:15am UTC](https://forum.sienci.com/t/broken-v-wheels-now-what/12466/3 "2024-06-07T11:15:58Z")

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Possibly. I’ll try that.

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**Author:** ![GregsReinventions](https://forum.sienci.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/57b2e6/32.png) [@GregsReinventions](https://forum.sienci.com/u/GregsReinventions)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2024, 12:54am UTC](https://forum.sienci.com/t/broken-v-wheels-now-what/12466/4 "2024-06-08T00:54:32Z")

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