Yeah I wouldn’t jump right into something expensive
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Have you gone back to the ‘default’ settings? Since it sounds like your magnets weren’t still glued in. I would forget about everything you HAVE tried, and start fresh from the beginning (which is hard).
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Well, crap. Everything was going GREAT, but now it looks like I snapped a Z-axis screw.
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Okay…I did not snap a Z-axis lead screw. The motor seems to be unhappy, though…it buzzes and doesn’t always operate full motion. So still stopped.
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Are you able to rotate them by hand and feel that they are moving freely?
Can.
I ordered a new stepper motor…hoping it won’t take too long. But it is what it is…although I could have sworn I already had plenty of character…
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Update!
I received the replacement servo on Sunday and installed it yesterday. During installation, I discovered a bent pin on the connector (which may have been the actual issue…
), and straightened it. Didn’t have opportunity yesterday to test more than z-axis function, which was fine.
This morning I came in early and updated to v0.77—by the way, is it necessary to add the updated maslow.yaml when updating firmware? I’ve been doing so and then running another calibration, but maybe that’s not necessary—and successfully ran a full calibration.
Set up for a test cut and I have also on a couple of belts during jog. 
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It’s not designed to go above a 70 degree angle for the slope of the work surface.
You can just copy the frame size values to the new yaml file. It won’t force you to calibrate again.
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David Negaard wrote:
is it necessary to add the updated maslow.yaml when updating firmware? I’ve
been doing so and then running another calibration, but maybe that’s not
necessary—and successfully ran a full calibration.
sometimes it’s necessary, sometimes it’s not (better to always do so)
but you don’t need to do a full calibration, save your old version and update
the Maslow_* variables in the new one and you don’t need to run another
calibration.
Set up for a test cut and I have also on a couple of belts during jog.
not sure what you are saying here.
David Lang
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Ah, autocorrect. It was supposed to read “slack,” not “also.”
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David Negaard wrote:
Ah, autocorrect. It was supposed to read “slack,” not “also.”
Slack on belts while cutting is also an indication that the calibration is not
correct.
David Lang
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And now the board is not driving one of the z-axis servos. Pretty sure I cracked a solder joint or something while straightening the pin. Ordered a new board and in the meantime looking for ways to produce patterns from my Fusion designs so we can cut by hand.