Can we get an official guide on ball screw lubricating for the HDM

I went and redownloaded the HDM manual and there is still nothing on how to access and lubricate the ball screws or even an estimated time frame as to when it should be done and whether grease or vactra2 used. I have around 50-60 hours of cut time on my machine and have oiled the blocks because they needed it but I want to make sure the ball nuts stay in prime condition as well.

I hope I don’t have to tear my machine down to do so and perhaps C3d could look at how Axiom has their ball screws easily accessible for such maintenance and change their future designs to allow easy oiling.

I know the HDM is no longer the shinny big seller and the Pro 5 is focus #1 but I hope it gets some design improvements that make maintenance simple so future customers don’t need to tear down, oil, rebuild, and then re-tram when oiling.

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Have you seen:

https://my.carbide3d.com/docs/maintenance/

While it doesn’t note that the HG-15 rails are what’re used in the HDM, that’s what is used per:

https://carbide3d.com/blog/introducing-shapeoko-hdm/

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