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[johansen]

Rather than try and fix the stiction issue, take it all apart and stone any burrs and make sure it slides the whole way with no binding anywhere.
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[johansen]

I used 9/16-18 outside and 11mm-1.5pitch for the thread inserts on a toyota camery known for aluminum blocks fatiguing threads.

I discovered...

[johansen]

If you read my reply in context you could see i was replying to garylucas whobsaid linear suppies are better. Which, imo, would only be thr case if they...

[johansen]

That might be true of old linear supplies that had a fat zener on the output, big enough to blow the fuse in the event of a pass transistor short....

[johansen]

I suspect the rule of thumb regards the extra heat produced by eddy and hysteresis losses. Otherwise you could run the voltage as high as you want. Just...