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Ball Screw RFQ Preparation Guides

List the specifications, drawings, quantity, application, packing, and timing details needed in a first RFQ email.

Before requesting a custom ball screw quote, list the drawing, dimensions, accuracy, quantity, and packing requirements.
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What Information Is Needed for a Custom Ball Screw RFQ

Before requesting a custom ball screw quote, list the drawing, dimensions, accuracy, quantity, and packing requirements.

Open custom RFQ form
In the first RFQ email, state the purchase type, model, length, nut, quantity, packing, and required lead time.
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Standard Ball Screws First RFQ Email: What to Write

In the first RFQ email, state the purchase type, model, length, nut, quantity, packing, and required lead time.

Open standard parts RFQ
With a drawing, confirm revision and tolerances; without one, provide old-part photos, measurements, and application information.
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Ball Screw RFQ: With Drawing vs Without Drawing

With a drawing, confirm revision and tolerances; without one, provide old-part photos, measurements, and application information.

Send drawing or old-part details
Drawing changes after quotation must reconfirm revision, end dimensions, nut style, and tolerance, and may require a requote.
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How to Reconfirm Ball Screw Drawing Changes After Quotation

Drawing changes after quotation must reconfirm revision, end dimensions, nut style, and tolerance, and may require a requote.

Send drawing change confirmation
Sample and batch orders are quoted differently, so the RFQ should state testing plan, first order, and later replenishment rhythm early.
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Ball Screw RFQ Plan: From Sample to Batch Order

Sample and batch orders are quoted differently, so the RFQ should state testing plan, first order, and later replenishment rhythm early.

Send sample-to-batch plan
After receiving a ball screw quotation, buyers should compare more than unit price and confirm specification, machining, packing, and lead time boundaries.
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How to Check Ball Screw Quotation Items Before Ordering

After receiving a ball screw quotation, buyers should compare more than unit price and confirm specification, machining, packing, and lead time boundaries.

Send quotation confirmation details
Ball screw supplier comparison should look beyond unit price because accuracy, machining, packing, inspection, and response affect real purchasing cost.
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Why Ball Screw Supplier Comparison Should Go Beyond Unit Price

Ball screw supplier comparison should look beyond unit price because accuracy, machining, packing, inspection, and response affect real purchasing cost.

Send supplier comparison checklist
Before production, buyers should lock drawing revision, end machining, nut direction, labels, packing, and inspection requirements.
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Ball Screw Pre-Production Check: Drawing, Nut, Packing

Before production, buyers should lock drawing revision, end machining, nut direction, labels, packing, and inspection requirements.

Send pre-production confirmation
Repeat orders still need previous order number, model list, quantity, drawing revision, labels, packing, and a new lead time plan.
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How to Send a Repeat Ball Screw Order RFQ List

Repeat orders still need previous order number, model list, quantity, drawing revision, labels, packing, and a new lead time plan.

Send repeat order list
Urgent repair RFQs need clear lead time, old part information, and acceptable alternatives so the supplier can judge the fastest feasible route.
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How to State Lead Time in an Urgent Repair Ball Screw RFQ

Urgent repair RFQs need clear lead time, old part information, and acceptable alternatives so the supplier can judge the fastest feasible route.

Send urgent repair RFQ

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Send the model, length, quantity, application, or old-part photos. We will review the specification against the actual machine and use case.

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