Different screws code

X-Carve Assembly
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Hello everyone.

First of all I’m really pleased to have finally joined this community.

Today I have received my 1000x1000 full X-Carve bought from RoboSavvy and apart from a very tiny damage to an angle of the wasteboard everything is nice nothing is missing.

Anyway before starting to assemble it I have made a little “inventory” to check nothing was missing. Just when I have finished to check this I noticed that a little package with screws (sadly I have not pinned it on a block-notes) a code on it was totally missing from the Inventables instruction (1st section). I don’t know if that little package was put into the wrong box or is just the code that is wrong.

Later I checked that another little package have more screws than was on the Inventables assembling instruction inventory.

Has anyone noticed this?

I’m really sorry to have not pinned the code on a block-notes but I have just thought about it.

P.s. I just assembled the X-axis and both Y-axis. Have you any tips that I have to follow or be sure to check before to go on? Someone told me to put blue Loctite on every screws. Is that important?

Thanks,
Alex

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The loctite certainly helps in the long run. I didn’t do it and then found my eccentric nuts were loose just a few months later.

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Thanks, I’ll go on with that.

Do you have any advice for the Nema 23 motors? When I attached the plunge seems that one of the 4 motors is really hard ‘rotate’. Is than an issue that I need to report?

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Check that the motors wires are not touching. If they are it will “lock” the motor.

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I’m still assembling it, nothing is wired yet, I just rotate them a bit with my hand, and one seems need a lot more effort to rotate

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Even if you haven’t wired the steppers the loose wires hanging off the motor could be shorted together. That will lock the motor. Confused me until I remembered how steppers work.

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Oh I didn’t know that. So nothing to worry about I assume.

Thanks for your explanation,
Alex