Quote Originally Posted by Davek0974 View Post
No, do not over tighten a toothed belt, it does not reduce BL and will overload the motor bearings. A properly tightened belt should have a small amount of give in it - you should not tighten it so you can play music on it :)
Hi Dave,

Cheers for that. Are you running a belt drive? Do you find you need to run backlash compensation on Mach3 with it?

Lloyd