What Noob Stupid Mistakes Have You Made?
Seriously... some time I think I’ve got cotton wool instead of a brain.
Was trying to figure out why my perfectly prepared and painted stock was ruined when my CNC engraving design went off the top edge. Went back and checked my design... nope, looks fine... the stock was measured and cut exactly... so what was the problem.
Yup, I’d prepared the stock my cutting this one piece in two but not exactly. I needed my stock piece to be 325mm deep and the offcut was only 290mm... and I had picked up and prepared THE WRONG PIECE... so when I ran my job the v-cutting bit almost hit a screw when running out of stock. DOH!
So what’s your noob-stoopid mistake while using your CNC?
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Not exactly a noob error and I've been at this a long time so the list is long but I'm Forever forgetting to Zero Z Dro after finding the material surface. What's worse is I've got touch plate or probe but can't be bothered to use them because I can usually set it quicker manually..:stupid:
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Not installing limit switches or soft limits before starting to play :emptiness:
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Actually think to today's while setting up a machine was a good one.??? . . . Couldn't for life of me understand why Mach3 wouldn't Reset.! . . E-stop was set and I'd pushed the momentary Reset switch for drives.???? . . . took me a good minute to realize I hadn't actually turned on the power to control box..:hysterical: :hysterical:
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JAZZCNC
Actually think to today's while setting up a machine was a good one.??? . . . Couldn't for life of me understand why Mach3 wouldn't Reset.! . . E-stop was set and I'd pushed the momentary Reset switch for drives.???? . . . took me a good minute to realize I hadn't actually turned on the power to control box..:hysterical: :hysterical:
Well you have to turn the power on to your brain first:toot:
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I did something similar. I couldn’t get the touch screen on my CNC monitor to wake up... then I realised I hadn’t booted the computer yet.
Sometimes it’s the little and simple things that cause the most problems.
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Clive S
Well you have to turn the power on to your brain first:toot:
In my defense, I'd only had 1 cup of tea and no Hobnob's so my brain hadn't fired up yet..:whistle:
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JAZZCNC
Actually think to today's while setting up a machine was a good one.??? . . . Couldn't for life of me understand why Mach3 wouldn't Reset.! . . E-stop was set and I'd pushed the momentary Reset switch for drives.???? . . . took me a good minute to realize I hadn't actually turned on the power to control box..:hysterical: :hysterical:
I like to call this kind of fault "Finger Trouble'. Often embarrasing but it's the cheapest and simplest kind of 'fault' to fix.
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Most stupid mistake was to edit the .ini file in LinuxCNC v2.8 to set up auto-racking on my twin motor machine and then some weeks later run 'Stepperconfig' to change the acceleration. Took me all morning to realign the gantry.
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Kitwn
Most stupid mistake was to edit the .ini file in LinuxCNC v2.8 to set up auto-racking on my twin motor machine and then some weeks later run 'Stepperconfig' to change the acceleration. Took me all morning to realign the gantry.
Well for the benefit of others I think you meant pncconf if you used a Mesa. But anyway stepconf and pncconf should never be used after the initial run as it will overwrite the hal and ini files. Ask me how I know?
