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What not to do with your Phlatprinter

Discussion in 'Troubleshooting and Build Support' started by Flashsolutions, Dec 1, 2010.

  1. Flashsolutions

    Flashsolutions Active Member

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    DO NOT RAISE THE PIVOT ARMS WITHOUT FIRST RAISING THE GANTRY!

    I yanked the bearings right out of the gantry!

    I am so not used to a gantry being in the way with my MK1.5 that I totally forgot and went to load a sheet of foam, nearly destroyed my gantry.
     
    Flashsolutions, Dec 1, 2010
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  2. kram242

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    Larry I was worried I may do this myself and I am trying to make it a routine to raise the gantry back up after my cuts. There is a park position setting for the USBCNC software that I thin may be a big help as well. The answer though may be a limit switch at the top of the run so that the machine knows where top is. This way it could be added to the code to run to the park position no matter what the starting height is.
    Thanks for this tip
    Mark and Trish
     
    kram242, Dec 2, 2010
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    What Mark said is good advice. I wish I had of read this thread.
    You could insert a piece of code at the end of your G-Code that could move your Z gantry
    out of the way. I crashed my Z-Axis gantry knocking out the top bearing.
    This was my fault.:girl_cray2: :twitch: :questions: :nervous:

    After that, I decided to put a piece of code at the end of the file to raise the Z-Axis out of the way when the machine goes back to the starting point. 1-1/2" does the trick for 3mm or 6mm foam.

    Hope this helps.
    George :02cents:
     
    thunder hawk, Mar 13, 2011
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