Worked perfectly for a month. I went to probe xyz with the tip setting and a v-bit. The bit goes to the left but when going to the right it jammed against the wall of the zero touch and stopped. Broke the tip off my bit. Tried again.This time it jammed in the back. My Gsender is set to auto touch. Any ideas? Thanks in advance,
Hey Rick,
Sounds suspiciously like you have a bad wire connection. I sometimes have this problem on my magnet. The screw that keeps the amp connector firmy connected to the magnetic gets loose due to handling and then the problems start.
I now keep an eye on that screw, if I remember.
You can however just have a bad wire tnat needs a fixing/replacement.
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Following this one closely. I have the same problem and mine is a new LM MK2 machine. When I use the touch plate it goes through the touch process fine but then jams the bit into the back left side of the plate.
Check how your Auto touch plate is configured. I believe that there is a (somewhat obscure) setting for which corner of your work piece you are trying to zero. If you happen to be set up for zeroing the back left side but you are actually measuring the front left side then this is exactly the scenario you end up with.
I had a quick look at the setup instructions but could not find this detail but have a look at the picture on the bottom right of your gSender screen. It will give you a representation of the touch probe it is configured for. Now look up to the top right corner of the probe screen portion. You see a square with 4 individual corners. This is how you tell gSender where you intend to do the probing. If there is a disconnect between where you are probing and where gSender thinks you are probing then you will have a crash.
I don’t recall seeing explicit instructions for this feature …. I believe you are supposed to check your crystal ball for these details (well I could be wrong here)
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in the 1.5.x series of gSender it’s a tiny arrow ……
@Jens Here is your crystal ball. 
… and a fine crystal ball it is. It looks really shiny, you must have polished it 
My bad, I looked under ‘Setup & layout’ instead of ‘using gSender’
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@Jens Some features, including this one, could certainly benefit from having a label. The little toggle under the coordinates to home individual axes is another.
Nobody reads the manual, and even if we all did, most of us will forget these little details.
@Chucky_ott I guess that I’m the “nobody” who reads the manual.
@gwilki ok ok. Only one person reads the manual…
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After I changed and applied Standard to the touch plate configuration and then changed it back and applied/saved, I’ve had no problems.
Do you have the Autp Zero touch plate or the ‘standard’ touch plate?
From your earlier post, it would suggest you have the auto zero plate. The ‘standard’ plate configuration doesn’t do a lot of the extra steps the Auto Zero plate does. If you are configured for the wrong touch plate, you can be pretty sure that sooner or later you will have a chunk missing out of your rear end …..(ie it will bite you in the rear)
@Jens The title of this thread is “auto zero touch gets jammed.”
… which is why I ask and why I tripped over “applied Standard to the touch plate configuration”