Hey everyone, this happened last weekend but I’ve been so pissed about it I haven’t gone back or come here to try and get it sorted out. Normally If I mess up, it sucks and move on, but when it seems to be hardware or machine related it gets reaaaaaaallllly frustrating (feel free to tell me I’m wrong). A bit of background, I did the worlds worst glue up in that I just took some construction grade 2x6’s, chopped em in half and glued em up to get ready for a practice relief carving that I won’t feel bad if something goes haywire. I started surfacing down the two sides to get it flat using the g sender surfacing tool, finished one side after quite a few passes and a couple dumb hiccups on my end. Flipped it over to the second side and started the cut. About halfway through I paused the cut as it was getting late in the evening and needed to go to bed. The next day I came back, went through and checked everything, started up the router, dust collector, everything looked A-okay in gsender, hit go and!…. Nothing, wait a bit, nothing, hit go again, nothing, wait, nothing, hit go, nothing, nothing nothing nothing. Waited close to a couple minutes, then began to shut down the dust collector and router…. and off it goes! It made it to the end of the current pass due to the curve in the board, but the moment it hit the end it torqued out the x axis and I hit the emergency button due to hitting the material with the router shut off. Major problem #1. Surfacing a piece, not a big deal, but as this project is specifically being surfaced to turn into a pretty sizeable relief carving, being able to pause/pickup reliably is going to be important. Not sure if this is a Gsender issue or a SLB issue or something in between. Major Problem #2, Having to completely reboot the machine to be able to reconnect/Unlock it after the impact and E stop. Why is it that it seems to be that everytime I use the E stop it completely bricks the machine and forces a complete restart to become usable again?!?! Alright, annoying but no big deal…. Get things connected, rehome the project, reset the z axis, went to the surfacing tool, confirmed all the details, hit generate and send to visualizer. I set the machine up to do a .5mm cut, with the overall plan to take an extra .5mm off the already cut portion, and 1-1.5 mm on the unfinished depending on overall height differences. Instead what I got was a 2.2mm cut off of what I had already cut on the previous failed pass. This is notable because A) I did not actually change any details of the surfacing tool, I simply confirmed them, generated fresh G code and resent to machine as due process B)I had done a 2mm pass on the back side prior to the .5mm skim I had attempted to do. Major Problem #3- And excuse me for a moment here but… What the actual #*$&#(!!! I again confirmed all the things in the surfacing tool, .5 mm cut pass, 0’d out at the spot I was intending… just decided to take off 4x what I was asking it to do (I did find a post somewhere on the site here regarding the surfacing tool pulling last used cut pass dimensions somewhere…. Also, why do I find these posts immediately after I encounter that exact problem!?). Then to top off the night as it was rounding the outside far corner of the work piece the dust sweep decided to snap in half for reasons unexplained (already ran this multiple times at this point, it’s not like it hit a clamp or something else), so a nice little $100 touch up to put a cherry on things. Sooooo…… TLDR; I’m probably a raging moron, how do I deal with/fix
- Pausing and resuming long jobs/ Avoid having g sender/SLB completely lockup for multiple minutes at a time on resume
- Avoid G sender disconnects/Desyncs
- Avoid having to go nuclear and power cycle the SLB
- What are you guys using for dust control/Sweeps? I bought a new one from Sienci that just arrived yesterday just to get back up and running but I looked briefly at the pwn dust boot v7 and got me wondering if there’s better options out there for installing or removing, or less interference with clamping bolts or less restrictive or cost or whatever really.
- Vaguely recall hearing about the option to 3d print a new dust boot, and presumably just swap over magnetic hardware/install new bristles. I did find the 3d model, are bristles just a bulk amazon purchase? Don’t have a printer at the moment but I’ve been eyeballing one the last couple months.