I had a problem with my 'Y' axis your video helped me get straight to the source and solve it I wish I had seen this before I built my machine would have saved me a lot of heartbreak. All your videos are very informative and full of great tips much better than German instructions which are better then most I have used but lacking in critical areas bolt tightening for instance. Keep up the good work.
This was very helpful. After using my 840 for over two years, I know my way around it quite well. I was feeling defeated on aligning the Y axis after months of trouble free machining. I could not figure out how to fix one lead screw that was wobbling and binding. I did every single thing mentioned in this video and just ran my first job since without issue. This all came about when the machine was running unattended, binded and broke the (nearly brand new) timing belt. I tried for two nights without success to fix the binding issue. Very happy to hopefully have it behind me.
I just bought a 600 three weeks ago, and only just got the y axis sorted now - I wish this video had been around 3 weeks ago. The PAIN (mental, not physical)!!!. That said the feeling was that much sweeter when I eventually got it right.
This video is does help. Takes a lot of patience if you are new to CNC like me but after 7 hours of use and having to re-align this twice by now, it gets easier.
Stepcraft is a very good machine but you have to tune it very precisely (almost perfectly) if you wanna have a really working machine. Besides the things you have done, I've also added another two final steps to further refine the tuning. In my case I had an apparently unsolvable misalignment of the threaded bar not going up/down, but going left/right!!! After many trials I noticed the problem was a limit in tolerance caused by the thickness of the internal paint around the circular slots for the bearings! I sanded that part of paint and I managed to get a super perfect alignment, while, before sanding, movement was very very hard, almost impossible. Now my Y axis movement is so fluid in gears rotation that I can move it just puffing on the gears 😁 The second and final step I've noticed being very useful to make things even better, is to carry the XZ block to the starting point and letting itself automatically fix the position of the rear panel (afterwards you just have to set a little up/down tolerance of the panel and screw it). Now, carrying the XZ block to the opposite side, it will automatically fix the position of the front panel (repeating the tolerance part before screwing it). Maybe that's not a very common case, but I hope it can help someone who, as me, despite having done all the things according to the instructions, still can't figure it out and doesn't know why. The possible paint related problems are also somehow mentioned in the manual, and it's exactly said to try with sanding if some problems occurr. In fact, a similar problem may occurr in the parts pertinent with the rollers tension tuning; if there is too much paint, when you unscrew the tuning screw, rollers won't loosen because the related block can't slide.
@@dawnash2031 I'm happy this helped you, when I first assembled my Stepcraft, I was a little frustrated too, but you have to keep calm and think about what may be wrong in your specific case, temporarily leaving the logic of having to follow the manual step by step as if you were a worker who assembles parts in the factory.
I wouldn't throw mine out the window until after I've beaten it into a thousand pieces. I've tried letting end panels float to 'center' the lead screw. Nothing works. I'm just about done. Do they buy back?
@@samj1185 Have you read my first comment? I can't know your specific case, but, in general, you don't have to float too much end panels in order to let them center. The alignment is much likely the inverse way: lead screws should already be near a centered position, and movements to let the alignment be pèrfect should not be so much large. If you don't have a similar situation, I think the possible cases are three: 1) Some defective pieces which make impossible to obtain a perfect result; 2) You have to sand off the orange varnish inside the round holes of the panels, in order to create a little more tolerance; 3) You have to check the horizontality of the brass pieces which contain the lead screws, and check the good balancement of the brass wheels.
@@syntesi_cloud so you don't need to let the panels float much to center but you do need to remove paint in the bearing pockets to allow for more movement? so which is it? Defective parts, maybe, possible. I'm at the point of taking the whole thing apart and starting over. Is there a spec for brass wheel balancement? Their expalnation of lead screw nut alignment makes no sense, at all. I've got $1450 in this machine. You give me 1400 and it's all yours. (500w spindle w/ controller) Brand new, never run under power. Bought it from a guy who lost interest. I could throw a dart in the dark and find a better machine.
A Stepkraft machine was purchased, its work is failing, screws come out of its place, the one who buys it will find what I say leave it to the people to try it better
Shouldn't the nickels be on the flat sections instead of on the angle part of the gantry? (just nit-picking ;-) ) Very good video! I'm going to have to re-do my alignment, but think I will wait until the X and Z videos come out also! My Z axis seems to be the most sensitive and is lousing steps some. My machine it in one of your enclosures and is a real pain to get in and out there to do this type of work on it.
This proves that my words are true. No one from Stevecraft spoke to me knows what the problem is about their failed device. Experience will prove this to everyone.
Thanks a lot for these much needed instructional videos! What is your 100% speed in mm/min? I got my 840 up to 5000mm/min without binding, but I am going to realign (yet again) based on these videos, not for speed but to get more confident the machine does not bind halfway and screws up the job.
anybody know where I can buy back the countless hours I've spend fiddle-fhuking w/ this machine? Regardless of how many times I watch the video and follow it exactly, I'm still binding and have no idea how to fix it. Spend a little more and get an I2R or something similar, unless you don't really want to cut and prefer wasting time and money on a GDPOS.
Hello, would like some videos helping us understanding the 3D printing head, the parameters and software! The settings, we are currently having a problem, at 20% the printing head is not printing anything... we think is all about settings and temperatures. Thanks
the steooen motors are to weake i wish i knew this before i spended 4000 euro on this cnc and then the price of 559 euro for a 3 watt laser sais enough about stepcraft so pleasseeeeee don't buy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
You are a failed company, you have no startup, just an advertising company, nothing more. Your product is a failure. After conducting experiments on operating the machine, for children only
I had a problem with my 'Y' axis your video helped me get straight to the source and solve it I wish I had seen this before I built my machine would have saved me a lot of heartbreak. All your videos are very informative and full of great tips much better than German instructions which are better then most I have used but lacking in critical areas bolt tightening for instance. Keep up the good work.
This was very helpful. After using my 840 for over two years, I know my way around it quite well. I was feeling defeated on aligning the Y axis after months of trouble free machining. I could not figure out how to fix one lead screw that was wobbling and binding. I did every single thing mentioned in this video and just ran my first job since without issue. This all came about when the machine was running unattended, binded and broke the (nearly brand new) timing belt. I tried for two nights without success to fix the binding issue. Very happy to hopefully have it behind me.
I just bought a 600 three weeks ago, and only just got the y axis sorted now - I wish this video had been around 3 weeks ago. The PAIN (mental, not physical)!!!. That said the feeling was that much sweeter when I eventually got it right.
This video would have saved me the headache 2 years ago! I hope this helps for whoever is having problems with theirs.
No good enough. I am getting ball lead screw from Moore international
This video is does help. Takes a lot of patience if you are new to CNC like me but after 7 hours of use and having to re-align this twice by now, it gets easier.
Yess this is what i meean, for newbie like me maybe need 7 day or more to setup, maybe i need to buy other brand
Stepcraft is a very good machine but you have to tune it very precisely (almost perfectly) if you wanna have a really working machine.
Besides the things you have done, I've also added another two final steps to further refine the tuning.
In my case I had an apparently unsolvable misalignment of the threaded bar not going up/down, but going left/right!!!
After many trials I noticed the problem was a limit in tolerance caused by the thickness of the internal paint around the circular slots for the bearings!
I sanded that part of paint and I managed to get a super perfect alignment, while, before sanding, movement was very very hard, almost impossible. Now my Y axis movement is so fluid in gears rotation that I can move it just puffing on the gears 😁
The second and final step I've noticed being very useful to make things even better, is to carry the XZ block to the starting point and letting itself automatically fix the position of the rear panel (afterwards you just have to set a little up/down tolerance of the panel and screw it). Now, carrying the XZ block to the opposite side, it will automatically fix the position of the front panel (repeating the tolerance part before screwing it).
Maybe that's not a very common case, but I hope it can help someone who, as me, despite having done all the things according to the instructions, still can't figure it out and doesn't know why.
The possible paint related problems are also somehow mentioned in the manual, and it's exactly said to try with sanding if some problems occurr. In fact, a similar problem may occurr in the parts pertinent with the rollers tension tuning; if there is too much paint, when you unscrew the tuning screw, rollers won't loosen because the related block can't slide.
Thank you for the extra information, this has helped me, was just about to throw it out of the window, glad I didn't, thank you so much.
@@dawnash2031 I'm happy this helped you, when I first assembled my Stepcraft, I was a little frustrated too, but you have to keep calm and think about what may be wrong in your specific case, temporarily leaving the logic of having to follow the manual step by step as if you were a worker who assembles parts in the factory.
I wouldn't throw mine out the window until after I've beaten it into a thousand pieces. I've tried letting end panels float to 'center' the lead screw. Nothing works. I'm just about done. Do they buy back?
@@samj1185 Have you read my first comment?
I can't know your specific case, but, in general, you don't have to float too much end panels in order to let them center.
The alignment is much likely the inverse way: lead screws should already be near a centered position, and movements to let the alignment be pèrfect should not be so much large.
If you don't have a similar situation, I think the possible cases are three:
1) Some defective pieces which make impossible to obtain a perfect result;
2) You have to sand off the orange varnish inside the round holes of the panels, in order to create a little more tolerance;
3) You have to check the horizontality of the brass pieces which contain the lead screws, and check the good balancement of the brass wheels.
@@syntesi_cloud so you don't need to let the panels float much to center but you do need to remove paint in the bearing pockets to allow for more movement? so which is it? Defective parts, maybe, possible. I'm at the point of taking the whole thing apart and starting over. Is there a spec for brass wheel balancement? Their expalnation of lead screw nut alignment makes no sense, at all. I've got $1450 in this machine. You give me 1400 and it's all yours. (500w spindle w/ controller) Brand new, never run under power. Bought it from a guy who lost interest. I could throw a dart in the dark and find a better machine.
We need a video like this for the M series
We will work on one this week
I second this. Plus a video walking you through homing and a brief explanation of the selection on the uccnc display.
@@StepcraftInc Where is this video? Just purchased and having this problem.
@@StepcraftInc i have that problem with the m500 machine , canot find out how i can fixe the problem without an explanetion
@@user-ll7hl9df9j did you find solution ?
really nice video, i would die to see the same video with a M.1000, i thank you in advance (other dimensions of M series is also welcome)
A Stepkraft machine was purchased, its work is failing, screws come out of its place, the one who buys it will find what I say leave it to the people to try it better
Shouldn't the nickels be on the flat sections instead of on the angle part of the gantry? (just nit-picking ;-) ) Very good video! I'm going to have to re-do my alignment, but think I will wait until the X and Z videos come out also! My Z axis seems to be the most sensitive and is lousing steps some. My machine it in one of your enclosures and is a real pain to get in and out there to do this type of work on it.
This proves that my words are true. No one from Stevecraft spoke to me knows what the problem is about their failed device. Experience will prove this to everyone.
Thanks a lot for these much needed instructional videos!
What is your 100% speed in mm/min?
I got my 840 up to 5000mm/min without binding, but I am going to realign (yet again) based on these videos, not for speed but to get more confident the machine does not bind halfway and screws up the job.
50mm/sec, 3000mm/min is what we cap it at
Excelente vídeo.que velocidad y aceleración me aconsejas para la 420 gracias
You say to align the Z and X axis, check the links below.....there are no links to aligning the X and Z. Where are the videos for those two axis?
please email support@stepcraft.us
When machines got the sound like that, why so much to do, need to remove and resetting all body, i think this machine hard to use 😭😭😭
So great explanation. Thanks
anybody know where I can buy back the countless hours I've spend fiddle-fhuking w/ this machine? Regardless of how many times I watch the video and follow it exactly, I'm still binding and have no idea how to fix it. Spend a little more and get an I2R or something similar, unless you don't really want to cut and prefer wasting time and money on a GDPOS.
The m.1000 also uses belt drive or direct drive?
Hello, would like some videos helping us understanding the 3D printing head, the parameters and software!
The settings, we are currently having a problem, at 20% the printing head is not printing anything... we think is all about settings and temperatures.
Thanks
"we still have no movement" whole thing moves haha
I have a question: how will you make sure that X and Y are square?
Will there be videos like this of the x- and z-axis?
confusing
Why have you stopped making videos?
Do you leave the screws finger tight.
You do until the very end when you tighten the front and back plate screws all the way once you are certain the Y moves from end to end at full speed
Hi, where can i buy this machine? Do you have in amazon?
On their website. stepcraft.us
Connor Burns thank you very much sir
hope you didn't.
the steooen motors are to weake i wish i knew this before i spended 4000 euro on this cnc and then the price of 559 euro for a 3 watt laser sais enough about stepcraft so pleasseeeeee don't buy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
You are a failed company, you have no startup, just an advertising company, nothing more. Your product is a failure. After conducting experiments on operating the machine, for children only