Hi everyone,
my machine was working fine, as always, and then suddenly today the spindle started turning off a couple inches above the work and then either throwing up a “limit switch” error and stopping everything altogether, or, worse, carrying on with the job and just trying to drag a non-spinning spindle.
The belt on my spindle seemed loose, so I tightened it a bit, and that seems to have made things worse, though it’s possible (even likely) that things were getting worse, and the belt had nothing to do with it. I need my machine, I’m in the middle of making a bunch of stuff to sell. Any thoughts?
I have emailed support as well. Here’s two videos of the misbehavior:
Problem V1, note how here it stops in midair, then starts again and proceeds to cut air for a while:
Problem V2, shuts off, drags the non-spinning cutter around: