Replacement connecting rods?

Hello all,

First post here and bit of a newb!
I have access to an ageing Fisher Delta and the acrylic head connecting rod ends are warping quite badly, so much that they are becoming loose on the ball caps.

I was wondering if anyone knew/had tried replacing them with metal rods with ball joints? They will obviously be much more robust, accurate and longer lasting.
Something like this with some M4 threaded rod:
[www.amazon.co.uk]

May need to widen the carriages and head to use the bolts the other way around and have the ball joints pressed against the plastic (with a washer).

Thanks in advance!
Richard

So, after my first post I did some more digging and found Haydn Huntley's idea about using magnetic ball ends with carbon fibre tubular rods.
I'm going to try using the existing ball ends and just replace the rods.
The neodymium magnets are ordered and cap ends designed, I will post my results.



Here's his website:
[www.magballarms.com]

Hmm, the problem I have now is the ball caps are stainless steel so not magnetic. Trying to source some M3 6mm steel ball caps...

If anyone knows where there is a supplier of steel/magnetic threaded balls, preferably in the UK, please let me know. Even the ones on ebay claiming to be kossel 10mm steel magnetic balls also say they are stainless steel, which is not magnetic...

Stainless steel can be either magnetic or non magnetic depending on the alloy used. I use magnetic ones from Haydn Huntley.

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Disclosure: I design Duet electronics and work on RepRapFirmware, [duet3d.com].

Huh, you learn something new every day!

Stainless steels