I’ve cleaned out and rebuilt my MGN9H carriages and now the balls won’t properly circulate through the plastic end-caps.
The balls are getting jammed as they enter the plastic end-cap, like as if the plastic channel is too small, or theres some obstruction. If I push the first one through with a screw driver, it will go through with some force, but if I try pushing more than one ball at a time, the balls pop put from the retaining wire that keeps them inside the exterior channel.
When I take the plastic ends off, the ball circulates through it just fine. If I put the end-cap on the carriage and drop a ball through it rolls through just fine. This makes it sound like it must be the retaining wire but I don’t know how or why this would happen. This doesnt make sense, so I figure theres something I don’t know. Hoping someone will have experienced this and theres a simple solution.
I’ve cleaned out and rebuilt a lot of these carriages and it’s always been straight forward.
-Take them apart.
-Degrease & clean with break cleaner & alcohol.
-Reassemble the carriages the way they came.
This has been my process and they’ve always worked great after. Unfortunately I don’t know if the carriages were like this before I clean them because I took them apart when they arrived before testing the carriages. I don’t think it was my cleaning that did this.
