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General Mach Discussion / Crooked Cuts?
« on: August 01, 2010, 12:44:12 AM »
Hello All,
I recently picked up an old Phoenix GS cnc router. I have no past experience and spent the first week just getting the thing running. I cut the roadrunner first and it looked pretty good. I then wanted to cut out something in 3d and loaded in a file. On this file the X axis cut horribly crooked. The whole picture shifted farther and farther to the right to the point where a 90 degree angle was at nearly 45.
I believe I have a problem with the motor as it's probably really old and it makes a nasty screaching noise. All of the motors make more noise than I think they should, but I have no reference to know if that is normal or not. The X axis motor is easily the loudest though and I figure before I go throwing money at a problem I know nothing about I should at least ask first!
So anybody have any thoughts for me? Thanks!
I recently picked up an old Phoenix GS cnc router. I have no past experience and spent the first week just getting the thing running. I cut the roadrunner first and it looked pretty good. I then wanted to cut out something in 3d and loaded in a file. On this file the X axis cut horribly crooked. The whole picture shifted farther and farther to the right to the point where a 90 degree angle was at nearly 45.
I believe I have a problem with the motor as it's probably really old and it makes a nasty screaching noise. All of the motors make more noise than I think they should, but I have no reference to know if that is normal or not. The X axis motor is easily the loudest though and I figure before I go throwing money at a problem I know nothing about I should at least ask first!
So anybody have any thoughts for me? Thanks!