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Unread 30-06-2015, 21:18
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Help replacing broken leadscrew (2015 First Choice item)

In an off season event today we snapped (!) one of four matching leadscrews on our robot's stacker. The screw was an AndyMark First Choice 2015 item (http://firstchoicebyandymark.com/fc15-020) but isn' t available through them now. Does anyone happen to have one lying around they'd be willing to part with for fair market value?

We're not really interested in re-engineering for different or non-matching hardware since this machine has only one more off season event scheduled before being put out to exhibition-only pasture.

We have spoken to the manufacturer (Haydon Kerk), and they don't sell small scale, but directed us to McMaster-Carr. MMC does have matching material, but only in 72 inch lengths (we need 18") at $157, again kind of steep for an about-to-be-retired robot. That will be the fallback plan, though. We can always salt the rest away for possible future use.
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