Help please. Dip switches and mach 3 settings

[Radu_Andrei]

Rob. I still don.t get why you seem so happy about the Kress router. I assume yoga might be your secret. :))

Hi Neale.
Truth be told, for the y axis I kind of hoped for the best in the setup. I tried some techniques I found online to align the rails, and the ballscrew, but it seemed to not work so well as advertised, so in the end, I just did a feel run, like aligned one end of a rail, than bolted that, that the other one, and used some shims to adjust any issue, and when it felt like it was running smooth, I mounted the ballscrew, in the same manner. One end first in one plane, them attached a pice of rod to the coupler, and turn it with the tips of my fingers, and bit by bit, fixed all nuts until I could turn the ballscrew with the tips of my fingers for the whole 1420mm run.

With other word, beyond the language barrier: I have no clue what I did from a technical perspective. It just felt good enough. So could you please guide me towards a reliable way or alligning the y axis rails and ballscrew. :)

[Clive S]

Rob. I still don.t get why you seem so happy about the Kress router. I assume yoga might be your secret. :))

The secret was in the MD bit. It is a good bit of sarcasm from way back.

[cropwell]

Rob. I still don.t get why you seem so happy about the Kress router. I assume yoga might be your secret. :))

If I told you my secret, it wouldn't be a secret any more. There is nothing wrong with a Kress router, but it is noisier than a spindle and VFD. They are good quality, but my next build will have a water cooled spindle.

[cropwell]

Your carving lack of detail at the bottom edge, looks as though the wood was not set level to the XY plane. So I would check the bed is parallel to the X and Y axises.

[Radu_Andrei]

I just found out about the tramming thing and will do so in the next days. The bed was milled with a 10mm end mill, so I guess it should be somewhat parallel.