Nice CAD Skills!!! Consider me Envious. Only wish I had the same skills.
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I really wish you had a screen capture of how you modeled those wires. Iâm a Fusion 360 guy, not Solidworks, but I canât even picture how you did that.
I would reheat (left to right) pins 1,2 and 8. Try to have the soldering iron tip touching both the solder pad and the pin. Wouldnât hurt to add just a little bit more solder on those pins.
Not wrong, but the way the solder doesnât form a pear shape or a cup surrounding the pin indicates that there wasnât enough of something in that joint (either flux, solder, or heat).
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Is there a thread about the eccentric nut mod you spoke about?
Ooh this inspires me⌠next time I do the wiring on my X-Carve I might just use a full-on punch down block instead of a terminal block.
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yep, here it is:
My plates donât have them either, I feel like Iâm missing out on something.
The holes for the drag chain are the two vertically aligned ones below those Angus highlighted.
In operation I donât think it matters much. The ability to keep the x gantry perpendicular with the y axis is important but the y plates will be outside of the homing position. That extra .1875" will be dead space. You wonât go stop to stop when operating.
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Donât know what to tell you. Mine is off further than yours in the front and so far every cut is in great alignment. The closest I can get to the Y Plate is about an inch away because of my homing position stops. I think there is a natural tendency for the X gantry to keep perpendicular if the V wheels are aligned properly. And as long as one side doesnât slip in relationship to the other the cuts should be straight. Just my thought.
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I guess what I was trying to say was it is not as important as you would think. Lets pretend one Y axis was skewed by a whole foot. As long as the Y rails are parallel with each other and the X Axis is riding properly it wonât affect the cut. Yes it would shrink the useable cut area and somewhere the wasteboard frame is out of square, but your cuts are still going to be straight and square. The X gantry has a tendency to move toward squareness. Now that said⌠I donât know why it is off and there is no easy way to adjust it without shims.
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When I initially built my X-Carve, I had a similar problem. This was partially fixed by changing the X axis makerslide whcih wasnât cut at exactly 90 degrees. The main culprit though was the spoil board as Iâd tightened it before making sure that the base was square (corner to corner measurement). Loosened off the spoil board and re adjusted - problem solved.
Having one of the 20mm extrusion slightly under length shouldnât be an issue as long as your X-Carve is securely fastened to your table.
My X axis is already stiffened with steel and one side of the Y can be moved slightly before the other engages. The stiffening did not seem to correct that. But if you notice, when you push on the X axis in the middle, the Y side you have offset will come back into alignment. Thatâs why I said the X Axis bar has a tendency to self correct and run true.
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Sounds about right. I had to shim the X to get it completely straight. I used an 18" square to verify squareness.
I think understand. So you are saying that there is not 39.37" between the entire length of the Y axis rails? Not parallel. Or are you just saying that when you pull the X gantry all the way to the front there is a 0.27 degree non perpendicular?
Then itâs as I thought last night. You are saying that the gantry is on the blue line marked X axis. Yes it might be if you pull it all the way to the hard stops. I am saying that it will naturally find itâs way to the perpendicular (more like the line marked 39.37") once the V wheels are tight. Donât pull it to the hard stops by the ends. Always position it by pulling it at the center and it should naturally find the perpendicular. On my X-Carve the belt clips and shrink tubing are in the way and will not allow you to reach the Y axis hard stop anyway. But go ahead and true it up. Itâs just not all that relevant to the cut.
I cut up a couple of different butter dish type lids to use as shims. Different types of lids are different thicknesses. Play around until you find the best fit.
What I am trying poorly to say is I think he has case âAâ. Not âBâ. He is still assembling the X Carve. If he pulls the gantry by the right side all the way to the front stop then yes the Gantry will not be perpendicular. But the V wheels arenât going to want to track out of line if adjusted properly so it will square up to case A. If the Y rails are parallel and the gantry tracks perpendicular then it doesnât matter if one is longer than the other. Yes his waste board will be skewed but that doesnât affect the cut. But sure, go ahead and make things square.
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The bed is clearly out of square. Not arguing that.
Not what I intended when I said bed. Poor choice of words on my part. But my reasoning is all academic. You understand where I am coming from and I understand your situation. Iâll probably look a little closer at the alignment on mine because of this thread but my gantry is already perpendicular to the parallel Y rails so itâs not affecting my cuts. Let us know how you shim the frame.
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