Just getting started with my Maslow4, and after completing the calibration, I’m jogging the sled around and cutting area and noticed a quirk in the bottom left corner (see photo).
Because the spool that connects to the top corner is higher up on the router, it has a bigger lever arm to tilt the sled over, so when this spool takes most of the weight of the sled (when its in the left side of the cutting area) and it moves up, the sled angles up. Just measured my setup, and its 25deg from vertical (so I think within spec), but IDK a solution for this besides angling it further horizontal (taking up more floor space) or decreasing friction on the work piece (not sure this is a good avenue to explore).
I am having the same issue. I just did the calibration and along the left side of the work area the lower side of the sled lifts up and bounces as it moves in an upward direction toward the top of the work area.
I also have a vertical setup.Mine is 30 degrees. I lowered the tension to 750 to try and see if that would resolve the issue(it did not)
I have the same issue at 26degrees. Keeping a finger on the sled straightens the bit so I just stand by and “help” it to stay flat when cutting.
I guess the different heights of the spools is the culprit?
I have the same issue on a horizontal setup. Maslow 2 had a couple of bricks on board to stop this problem. I found a 5 lb hammer placed bottom right on the sled to quite effective at holding it down, but you have to remove it when the sled moves to another location to prevent fouling the belt. I’m wondering about chopping up some old metal screws into epoxy and casting a weight for the sled to be placed near the suction port as a more permanent solution.
I found changing the order of the arms so opposing belts are next to each other worked better. My order from bottom up is BR, TL, BL, TR. I have also raised the Anchors so the belts are parallel when Z is right down.
Both of these requires adjustment of Z values in maslow,yaml.
how do I know what changes to make in the yaml file?
each arm has a Z coordinate, which by default is the height of the anchor when
it’s at the arm to the bottom of the sled.
This assums the standard frame where all the anchors are at the same height as
the spoilboard, we now have a spoilboard and workpiece thinkess setting to let
you adjust if this is not true and they are all at the same height.
if you re-order the arms, change these settings around to match the arms
