The perfect setup?

Does anyone have the perfect setup that can run for hours without any issues?

I would say I have a 50% chance of running for an hour without something tripping for random reasons.

If so what is your setup? How often do you rebuild your Maslow? Do you use all of the screws? I do but disassembly is a pain and I thought how nice it would be to cut 30% of the screws out of the setup.

I recently took mine apart and applied grease to the gears. It seemed to work a lot better in that the over current errors went away and the belts retracted reliably again. I still get an occasional position error. The last time it failed, it just stopped mid cut with no log information.

Configuration:
13’ x 13’ concrete floor.
Stilling using Ethernet cables with hot glue

Not trying to complain, the Maslow is making amazing cuts that I couldn’t do without it. However, it can be frustrating having to create new G code to skip completed sections, retract the belts, extent the belts. If there is a better way to do things I would like to know.

I also don’t trust it to run safely, I never leave the Maslow running unattended.

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I 1000% agree with all of your concerns. Going from “works” to “always works” is the #1 goal right now. There are a lot of cool features that I’d like to add, but none of that is important until we get baseline reliability up.

My machine is feeling really solid right now, but I’m also the only person who has the 4.1 updates already. Almost all of those changes are aimed at improving reliability. I couldn’t agree more that reliability needs to be the main focus.

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And dimensional accucracy!

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