With so many different ball screws on the market and the attendant flood of data from manufacturers, designers can have a tough time sorting out what truly affects ball-screw performance. Information ...

It’s all About Ball Screws: A compendium of articles from Machine Design. This 19-page eBook is your guide to ball screws and details how they operate, their performance capabilities, different ...

Most inexpensive 3D printers use a type of lead screw to move some part of the printer in the vertical direction. A motor turns a threaded rod and that causes a nut to go up or down. The printer part ...