Connection issues S3XXL

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

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Grounding your Shapeoko

Why would you want to ground your Shapeoko? This isn’t something everybody should do, but if you have either of the following issues, you should consider it; Dust & chip accumulation (on rails and V wheels causing movement problems) Random disconnects (when cutting plastics or when extraction is on) There’s nothing ‘wrong’ with the way the Shapeoko is delivered and there’s no safety issue WRT grounding on the machines (if you add a VFD spindle that must be properly grounded but that’s not for…

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Plastic chips & static

Good question, I have not done plastics yet but I’ve had to deal with static. Do you have a bare wire inside your vacuum pipe to discharge the static to ground? I purchase a roll of bare stranded wire at Home Despot and installed it on my vacuum tube. You may want to also glue some inside your bucket. I found this document at Lee Valley that provides instructions on how to run the wire to remove the static. 03j6112ie.pdf (129.8 KB)