Hi all, I am building the Workbee 1010. I am at this point in the build; following the Ytube vid: The back corners are square; the Y beams carriage plates butt smoothly to the frame. The carriage plate butts smoothly to the frame on the front-left side. The carriage plate is held off on the front-right with a roughly 1/8" gap between edge of plate and backside of frame. I have tried the tricks in the tutorial for squaring the X c-beam but to no avail...anyone have any ideas? I've attached pics. First one is the back (obviously) and the last two are the front of the machine - plates on either side: I was a carpenter fro 26 yrs, I am fairly familiar with squaring things up but, this machine is kicking my...well, you know. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance
Have you checked that your Y C-beams are the same length? Where did you get the machine from by the way? Measure the diagonals of the frame is the best check for square - aim for 1mm difference or less. Alex.
It's an Open Builds bundle. It's square diagonally both ways. Starting to think maybe an issue with the X gantry/C-Beam? ETA: Y beams are same length.
Ok, I loosened X beam and shifted it backwards a little and torqued the screws back down. I believe I've got it to that 1mm you mentioned...
Not the exact problem you have, but I had to shim my x-gantry c beam between the end and one of the inside Y plates.
First off, thanks for the quick replies Gentlemen. I think I may have found the culprit - a few of the eccentric nuts for the rollers weren't properly pre-loaded on the right plate side and a few were OVER- tightened. I started them all back at zero pre-load and re-adjusted. This seems to have corrected that gap on the right front side almost completely. We shall see...
