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29-04-2020 #1
Did the installation 'engineer' check all the alignments? - I would bet not!
You need to check is that there is no twist in the gantry rails*, this will cause all sorts of inaccuracies. First rough check is with a large engineers square. Just eyeball the contact with the rails at each end of travel.
If you clamp a decent size engineer's square to the bed and align it with the X or Y axis using a dial guage, does it give a square reading when jogging along the other axis.
Then, when you have sorted that out, does the Z axis run true vertical wrt the bed. Again using a square and dial guage, testing at both ends of the gantry travel and also in the middle.
* this is also true for all rails. If they are not set up in tram and at 90deg to each other then you will never cut true geometry.Last edited by cropwell; 29-04-2020 at 05:44 PM.
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