I recently purchased an assembled X-Carve from a friend (2016+ model, 1000x1000 with dust shoe). Being new to this environment I ran through the Computer Setup process which runs the homing sequence to check the limit switches. Upon doing so, the dust shoe crashed into the gantry. I immediately hit the EPO and started looking at things, to find that there doesn’t appear to be a way to prevent this from happening short of raising the dust shoe well off of the work surface. I suspect doing so is going to have an impact on dust collection performance.
Below is an image of what my machine looks like when X is up against the limit switch. Note the acrylic part of the dust shoe is contacting the end plate and there is well over an inch of travel to go before the Y limit switch makes contact.
Here’s another photo, this time with the Y axis up against the limit switch. This time the aluminum riser of the dust shoe is making contact with the end plate and there is about a half inch of travel left before the X axis limit switch can make contact.
Is this by design? Am I supposed to raise the dust shoe before homing? If so, this feels like a pretty serious design flaw. Or is this an assembly problem with something installed in the wrong place?
