Bringing a Shapeoko 3 out of mothballs, what things should I check?

If you’ve got any suspicions once you start it up, it might be worth checking you get a consistent belt tension across all three axes to tell you the belts are still in good order. When they age the belts lose their ability to consistently hold tension under their preload extension.

There’s some hints on measuring belt tension here if you need to:

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