Tried to use my patio by driving 3/8" rods into the soil surrounding the patio. Unfortunately the rods moved too much to be useful.
Built the 8’ x 10’ wooden frame. Was easy to build, calibration was smooth and easy. Had issues with Maslow quitting mid-job due to position errors unrelated to encoder errors. Was not a big fan of climbing on ladders and chairs to extend and retract belts. With winter in Seattle coming I did not have room for this in my garage for a vertical setup.
13’ x 13’ horizontal setup on my garage floor with recessed concrete anchors (preferred). Was very careful to get everything as square as possible. Top ended up being about 5 mm wider than the bottom. Left and right sides were spot on. Diagonals are good too. However, it will not calibrate beyond the 5’ x 5’ matrix with fitness values in the .4 range. Per another forum I tried cutting without a complete calibration step. It works great!
For your horizontal setup did you secure the waste board to the garage floor? I haven’t read anything on this yet and am worried that it will shift around without some way of securing it.
I’ve had issues with that, and I am now working to secure it more firmly. I use some cheap 5/8" plywood sheeting for my spoilboard. I tried just using some spray-on adhesive to give some extra traction, but the plywood has now started to warp a bit from added moisture in the air and pulled up despite the adhesive. I’ve decided to put some additional drop-in concrete anchors and to countersink hexbolts into the spoil and down to the concrete anchors. I strongly doubt that the spoil will move at all after that. That being said, I could probably get away with using some strong double-sided tape instead, but I decided I’d rather have something that is fixed well in place and that I can have as a reference to re-align to later when I have to replace my spoilboard.
