I’ve noticed that on some direction changes, the Maslow tilts slightly (which would make the cut at that point not vertical). It also judders/stutters occasionally, could those two be related? What are the possible causes of this?
Should I be adding weights to the sled? I’m on the latest firmware/index.html/yaml
David Williamson wrote:
I’ve noticed that on some direction changes, the Maslow tilts slightly (which would make the cut at that point not vertical). It also judders/stutters occasionally, could those two be related? What are the possible causes of this?
Should I be adding weights to the sled? I’m on the latest firmware/index.html/yaml
if all else fails, yes
is this a vertical or horizontal frame? what was your retraction/calibraion
limit when you did the find anchors? it may be that if you can do it with a
lower tension limit, it will find the anchor locations better with less tension
and therefor have less tension as it is cutting
grafting on a wider sled base (say a piece of wood with the melomine (probably
spelled wrong, the countertop stuff) to make it slippery with a hole cut in it
for the maslow to sit could be done to only cost you a mm or two of bit length
but give it more leverage to keep from tipping and potentially be slipperier
than the sled base
David Lang
Horizontal frame. I’d have to look up the retraction settings, I don’t have that in front of me. I just redid my find anchors because I think I had my spoil board height set wrong and that might have been skewing my results.
what are the default tension or retraction numbers?
David Williamson wrote:
Horizontal frame. I¢d have to look up the retraction settings, I don¢t have that in front of me. I just redid my find anchors because I think I had my spoil board height set wrong and that might have been skewing my results.
what are the default tension or retraction numbers?
either 900 or 1100 IIRC, the lower you can get this and realiably retract and
have the belts pull tight when calibrating, the less tension there is on the
belts, less stretch, and more accurate numbers
but it may require sanding your spools to get them to spin more easily
making the bottom of the sled slipprier (slippery tape or waxing it) can also
help.
David Lang
The spools are the newest ones that have the correct tolerance. I ordered them recently.
As I’ve started to post more and more on this forum, I’ve noticed lots of technical details that were not in any of the ‘quick start’ guides I found (which I had to hunt for). Makes me wonder what else I’m missing? I just did another post with some dimensional issues with newly cut parts after doing ‘find anchors’ here
It would be nice if there was a definitive, detailed set up guide some where that discusses things like anchor and arm heights, retraction values, etc that can get someone the best results possible. My current results are very so-so. I had hoped I could actually use this as a real tool, but so far, not having great luck.
I agree that we need a better quick start guide. I just moved all of the documentation into GitHub to make it easier to update.
Do you have your anchor points lifted up to be off of the work surface or down at the same level as the spoil board? Some folks have reported more tilting when they are lifted up because they aren’t providing any down force
They are in the concrete, I’m on a 50mm pink insulation sheet. I do have the anchors on 37mm spacers, so I’ve got the spoil board set to 13mm
I was able to get a couple cuts in, but just this morning I was trying another but the router was plunging way, way too far down. I thought I had all the settings exactly the same in fusion as the last time, but I could not figure out why it was plunging down so far. I was about to try generate the toolpaths in Freazy, but I’m in Vegas and it got way too hot on the back porch for the Maslow, it just crashed constantly. I can only run it in the early mornings or the evenings around 6pm.
At this point in my making career I’ve already spent my years of tinkering, I’m ready to just get work done. I’m about ready to move on, having had too many roadblocks with Maslow trying to get real work done. Unfortunately, it has not been quite as easy as your promo videos show.