# Weight of chain causing inacuracy **URL:** https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/weight-of-chain-causing-inacuracy/13358 **Category:** Technical Details **Created:** [May 14, 2020, 4:55am UTC](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/weight-of-chain-causing-inacuracy/13358 "2020-05-14T04:55:51Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![kayaker37](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forums.maslowcnc.com/kayaker37/32/12681_2.png) [@kayaker37](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/u/kayaker37) #### Post date: [May 14, 2020, 1:13pm UTC](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/weight-of-chain-causing-inacuracy/13358/3 "2020-05-14T13:13:23Z")
I was looking through these last night, not that I understand much of what they are doing, but just blown away by how much thought and effort that people have put into this. > [@List of sources of error](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/list-of-sources-of-error/7523): > > I was explaining the issues we are fighting with for accuracy to someone and started enumerating all the potential sources of error. I thought it would be good to go through them all and list how they are (or are not) being addressed as of the beginning of Nov 2018. This assumes that the chains, sprockets, chain slack are all kept in the same plane so that there is no error from the chain attempting to skip or the efforts to prevent it from skipping. This is assuming triangular kinematics (usi… > [@The Zipper Tree Challenge... because](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/the-zipper-tree-challenge-because/8455): > > Now let me say I definitely enjoy the creativity and dedication of Maslownians slight_smile In the last 2 years, there were a lot of talks about calibration, searching the set of necessary parameter, finding how to set those parameters in a simple way, yet dealing with everyone having made their own slightly or vastly customised frame. There were posts about getting oval shaped circles, parts slightly distorted depending on where on the work space they were cut, observing wavy “straight” lin… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/weight-of-chain-causing-inacuracy/13358)._