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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Y-Axis is toast :(]]></title>
			<link>https://www.soliforum.com/post/30969/#p30969</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>solidoodlesupport wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>What direction is the slippage? This can help diagnose the exact reason.</p></blockquote></div><p>It slips when moving towards the front, so the prints always end up shifting towards the back of the machine at various points.</p><p>I would dissemble the whole thing but it is technically my company&#039;s and they are frustrated how much time and effort this thing has taken to get to work properly... <img src="https://www.soliforum.com/img/smilies/sad.png" width="15" height="15" alt="sad" /></p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (joshhunsaker)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2013 18:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Y-Axis is toast :(]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Video?</p><p>For my Y axis remount, I pressed down on it with 1 finger to tension the belt as I tightened the mounting bolts.</p><p>I removed my Y motor from the doodle, Held the motor in my hand and pinched the gear collar (what is that thing actually called?) between my fingers and tried to move it with the manual control. </p><p>I had used a fine point Sparpie to mark the shaft/collar. The attached pic is the result. </p><p>If the collar does not slip on the motor shaft, is the shaft itself slipping or is it the belt slipping?</p><p>Have you swapped the motors around?</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 20:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Y-Axis is toast :(]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>joshhunsaker wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>The machine went from occasional (and extremely annoying) slippage on the y-axis to simply being now completely unusable.&nbsp; It&#039;s gotten progressively worse, even as I&#039;ve attempted to fiddle with how tight the horribly small little screw bolts are that anchor the bearings to the rod for the y-axis on my 3rd gen solidoodle.&nbsp; I&#039;ve gotten maybe a couple actual usable prints out of it before it just simply decided it wouldn&#039;t have any more of it.&nbsp; The entire print head assembly (with the x-axis rods) will literally now &quot;bend&quot; and contort as I adjust the y-axis amount.&nbsp; If I tighten the bolt screws any tighter for the y-axis the motor itself will grind.&nbsp; Not tight enough and it just slips.</p><p>The machine isn&#039;t usable at all anymore so I suspect I&#039;ll have to do a complete teardown of the thing in order to fix whatever is happening here.&nbsp; I&#039;m going to try a bunch of white lithium grease on the rods as a throwaway effort but does anyone else have suggestions?</p></blockquote></div><p>What direction is the slippage? This can help diagnose the exact reason.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 19:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Y-Axis is toast :(]]></title>
			<link>https://www.soliforum.com/post/29412/#p29412</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>frozensoda wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>For me, cooling the electronics on the back is a must. I can&#039;t print without a fan on it.</p></blockquote></div><p>Yeah, right now I&#039;ve got the unit directly in front of an ac unit so it&#039;s definitely very cold at the point of the electronics.&nbsp; Cooling shouldn&#039;t be an issue right now, it really does look more to do directly with the y-axis hardware (rods/bearings/grease/belts/etc.)</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (joshhunsaker)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 16:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Y-Axis is toast :(]]></title>
			<link>https://www.soliforum.com/post/29395/#p29395</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>I just had a problem with my stepper motor binding. Take the drive belt off and spin the rotor with your hand back and forth kinda quickly see off it spins freely and doesn&#039;t snag.</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (MolecularConcept)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Y-Axis is toast :(]]></title>
			<link>https://www.soliforum.com/post/29392/#p29392</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>For me, cooling the electronics on the back is a must. I can&#039;t print without a fan on it.</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (frozensoda)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 05:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Y-Axis is toast :(]]></title>
			<link>https://www.soliforum.com/post/29375/#p29375</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>The belts can usually be fairly loose and still not slip, on the other hand if they are too tight( if you can pick an A on them) the stepper motors will not be able to overcome the friction and thus lose steps... I run mine just tight enough so the belts are not drooping. It sounds like your y-axis may have split from too tight of belt, the good news is acetone or abs glue will easily glue the crack together and be stronger than new.</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (ronsii)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 01:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Y-Axis is toast :(]]></title>
			<link>https://www.soliforum.com/post/29369/#p29369</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>The machine went from occasional (and extremely annoying) slippage on the y-axis to simply being now completely unusable.&nbsp; It&#039;s gotten progressively worse, even as I&#039;ve attempted to fiddle with how tight the horribly small little screw bolts are that anchor the bearings to the rod for the y-axis on my 3rd gen solidoodle.&nbsp; I&#039;ve gotten maybe a couple actual usable prints out of it before it just simply decided it wouldn&#039;t have any more of it.&nbsp; The entire print head assembly (with the x-axis rods) will literally now &quot;bend&quot; and contort as I adjust the y-axis amount.&nbsp; If I tighten the bolt screws any tighter for the y-axis the motor itself will grind.&nbsp; Not tight enough and it just slips.</p><p>The machine isn&#039;t usable at all anymore so I suspect I&#039;ll have to do a complete teardown of the thing in order to fix whatever is happening here.&nbsp; I&#039;m going to try a bunch of white lithium grease on the rods as a throwaway effort but does anyone else have suggestions?</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (joshhunsaker)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 00:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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