Subject: Acme thread taps

From: Art or Betty Eberle <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 20:50:39 -0500

Suggest you consider casting in babbit the nut you need directly around
your leadscrew.  Coat the leadscrew with carbon from a candle to keep
it  from sticking to the babbit.  Or you may use graphite.  

Have not done this myself but heard about it from an old machinist.  

Good luck.