@MrBeaver wrote:
The mrs is out and I’ve been racking my brains trying to consider more modifications to do my shapeoko… I know I said I was done but no one really believed that…
For me the logical next stage is improve the X/Y axis. The problem I’m facing is that unless I just chuck in the X/Y there isn’t really a way to improve them, I don’t want to build a whole new machine if I can help it. Then I got thinking about where the weak point as I see it is and it’s the belts. It would be great to swap these to ball screw, but if you do that you might as well do the whole machine.
Then I really thought about it, I’ve seen cnc machines use rack-and-pinion style axis. Why not just lob on some of that? It’s essentially a reverse of the belt method.
I can’t think why it wouldn’t work, but it seems too simple…
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