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Old Tue 04 November 2008, 10:31
Gerald D
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Cape Town
South Africa
Here is a new sub-forum for "troubleshooting"

Hi All

Quite often we do some troubleshooting in the personal threads, or somewhere else, and go through the pitfalls that more folk are going to experience. I would like to keep copies of all those troubleshooting discussions in one place.

See this example of Fabrica in Sri Lanka:
http://www.mechmate.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1066
The reason for his jerky gantry movement was a simple Mach setting, but we jumped through a lot of hoops before he discovered the root cause. That discussion and solution shouldn't get buried in only a personal thread.

Can everyone tell us here of anymore buried discussions that I should copy to this sub-forum? Thanks
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Old Tue 04 November 2008, 14:05
Marc Shlaes
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GregJ just had the same type of jerky cut when he used a certain method to draw shapes in Rhino. He was so sure it was mechanical he started disassembling motor mounts (if I recall).
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Old Tue 04 November 2008, 18:02
Greg J
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Hagerman, New Mexico
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Marc is correct. I experienced some very strange motion (jerky) and thought it was a loose pinion.

What's the best way to "clip" those thread and post here?

Or how do I make a link for just a few posts ?
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Old Tue 04 November 2008, 21:55
Gerald D
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Cape Town
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Greg, your post above is number 3 of this thread - you can see the #3 at the top right of the post. Right click on the "#3", Copy Shortcut, Paste, gives a link to that post. Eg.
http://www.mechmate.com/forums/showt...45&postcount=3

So, if you see a troubleshooting discussion anywhere, copy the first post of that discussion to here (this thread). I will dig from there on to find all the posts up to the solution and make a thread of them.
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Old Tue 04 November 2008, 21:56
Gerald D
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Cape Town
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Marc, I have already caught that one as an example. I didn't make it clear enough that the sub-forum of threads looks like this for a start.:
http://www.mechmate.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=83
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Old Wed 05 November 2008, 03:53
J.R. Hatcher
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http://www.mechmate.com/forums/showt...&postcount=160
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Old Wed 05 November 2008, 03:53
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Old Wed 05 November 2008, 04:00
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http://www.mechmate.com/forums/showt...&postcount=198
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Old Wed 05 November 2008, 04:27
Gerald D
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Cape Town
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Thanks JR.
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Old Wed 05 November 2008, 18:14
Doug_Ford
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Conway (Arkansas)
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http://www.mechmate.com/forums/showt...9&postcount=12
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Old Wed 05 November 2008, 21:44
Gerald D
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Cape Town
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Thanks Doug.
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Old Thu 06 November 2008, 16:54
Doug_Ford
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http://www.mechmate.com/forums/showt...4&postcount=55
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Old Thu 06 November 2008, 16:55
Doug_Ford
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http://www.mechmate.com/forums/showt...&postcount=100
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Old Thu 06 November 2008, 16:57
Doug_Ford
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Conway (Arkansas)
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http://www.mechmate.com/forums/showt...1&postcount=95
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Old Thu 06 November 2008, 16:59
Doug_Ford
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Conway (Arkansas)
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http://www.mechmate.com/forums/showt...&postcount=116
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Old Thu 06 November 2008, 17:05
Doug_Ford
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Conway (Arkansas)
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http://www.mechmate.com/forums/showt...&postcount=152
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Old Thu 06 November 2008, 17:08
Doug_Ford
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Conway (Arkansas)
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http://www.mechmate.com/forums/showt...31&postcount=1
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Old Thu 06 November 2008, 17:09
Doug_Ford
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Conway (Arkansas)
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Thank YOU Gerald. Besides, I'm expecting to have to use this stuff one day so I'm really helping myself.
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Old Thu 06 November 2008, 17:22
Doug_Ford
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http://www.mechmate.com/forums/showt...21&postcount=1
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Old Thu 06 November 2008, 17:27
Doug_Ford
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Conway (Arkansas)
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http://www.mechmate.com/forums/showt...12&postcount=1
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Old Thu 06 November 2008, 22:15
Gerald D
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Cape Town
South Africa
Good going Doug!

With my memory these days, I remember someone having jumper issues on the PMDX in the last 3 weeks, but I can't remember who it was - anyone help us out?
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Old Fri 07 November 2008, 05:41
Greg J
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Hagerman, New Mexico
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Justin's Jumper Pin

http://www.mechmate.com/forums/showt...7&postcount=41
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Old Fri 07 November 2008, 06:33
Gerald D
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Cape Town
South Africa
That's it, thanks.

Looking over that forum and its topics, it strikes me that the majority are just getting started, teething problems. But I suppose most machines havn't been around long enough for wear and tear issues.
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Old Fri 07 November 2008, 07:25
domino11
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Cornwall, Ontario
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gerald D View Post
But I suppose most machines havn't been around long enough for wear and tear issues.
Or the design is just too darn reliable.
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Old Fri 07 November 2008, 07:52
Gerald D
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Cape Town
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Simplicity = reliability
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