Tensioning the x and y axes shouldn’t be such a tedious pain. The design team should look into this and come up with something better for such a critical part. The elegant solutions shown on YouTube for Shapeoko2, screw-type tensioners, won’t work for Shapeoko3. I’ve been futzing around this issu…

Foolproof belt tensioners needed

neilferreri (Neil Ferreri Ω) August 21, 2020, 4:11am 6

Untested: (EDIT: I should make it clearer…the image is a link to the part)

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Reviving Old Standard S3 Frame

Shapeoko Belt Tensioner

Measuring belt tension, squaring and calibration

During setup cannot align bitsetter