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November 24, 2021, 2:45am
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Maintenance is a factor of machine hours, the types of material you cut, and how hard you push your machine. For example, if you cut material like MDF and plywood which creates a lot of fine dust particles you may need to oil the linear rails a bit more often. Did you follow @neilferreri recommendation?
This info might be helpful.
Whilst waiting for our official maintenance guide for linear rail and carriages I thought it might be prudent to post a draft here.
At present we don’t offer oil for our carriages or linear rails, however it can be bought cheaply from Amazon, ebay and in most cases local machinists stores.
We only recommend using Mobile vactra No 2 oil on linear rails, ball screw and carriages. It should not be used on any other parts of the machine. Follow the safety guides provided with the oil. Wear glove…
A post about belt tension, how to measure it, what effect it has and why you need to manage belt tension in order to usefully calibrate and square the machine.
As usual, no criticism of the machine here, in fact some quite clever design choices seem to have been made.
The question of drive belt tension has been bugging me. How much you should have, how to check it and how it affects machine performance. I failed to find any quantitative data to use, so I went and started measuring; and found t…
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