I am working on consolidating the most helpful post on various subjects in order to make finding solutions to common issues easier. When I was fresh to the machine and it’s problems, I had to figure out how to word the searches in different ways in order to find solutions. I am still finding older post that were worded slightly different that didnt show up in my original searches. For now, it is just links to the post, however, I plan on creating more of a at a glance problem/solution reference with links to the post which will provide more discussion around the subjects. I hope this helps someone. If you know of a post or subject to add to this, please post the links so it may help someone else. Basically, my idea is to have a check list during and after setup in order to get the most out of the machine.
BTW, thanks for doing this. I’ve been trying to set up a bunch of mini-articles to reference as new people come on board for common problems that we’ve all run into, but there never was a place for someone to go to, to find out where to go to.
That is a major thing I saw lacking and to some degree frustrating. When new, you sometimes don’t know what to search for or the questions to ask. Through a lot of forum crawling, I found answers to questions I didn’t know I even had until I found others experiences. Would have helped me a lot to have this kind of thing, so I figured, why not create it and hopefully learn more along the way.
Great point on the dust shoes! I will dig up some links tomorrow morning, about to hit the sack right now. I also need to make myself a dust shoe soon… got the harbor freight dust collector… now just need to get the hoses, make a cyclone bucket, and dust shoe.
Great idea, thanks for jumping on it! If they can find a way to make it be the first stop for new users, that’ll be extremely helpful!
I just added a project that will let a user troubleshoot to figure out lost steps, poor calibration, and lack of perpendicularity between the spindle/router and the wasteboard. It may fit into your list somewhere: https://www.inventables.com/projects/calibration-test-pattern
awesome! I also can’t believe I forgot to add your video thread which helped me a ton when setting up my pots and steppers. Thanks for those! Both are added now.
also added the y shield and changed the dust shoe section into dust collection and protection
stiffened the x axis, I plan on going further with the steel plate, but for now this is working as a quick cheap solution A 30 minute x-axis mod to reduce chatter
Has anyone had any issues with the X-Carve creating a step on its first pass consistently around an object? Ours started doing it today and we cant seem to figure out why because it was cutting fine yesterday.
