I am just a beginner but have already been able to achieve great results with my Lowrider 4. However, I am now completely down due to recurring problems with routing 22 mm hardwood plywood. I have already tried everything:
So the stepover is concerning to me! Did you observe your machine miss steps? Or this a new build that maybe your grub screws came loose one?
Also the down cut bits have their use but they cause heat from the dust being pushed down, up brings it out and clears your cut. If you have breakout on your ply wood try masking tape on your cuts.
I was constantly working at the extreme end of the machine, and just before the end stop, the gantry snagged against the timing belt holder, with all the resulting consequences. So, the solution was to loosen the timing belt holder and reposition it better.
The snagging in the middle of the element being milled was most likely due to a timing belt that was too loose on one side, and my request to mill the final pass in the opposite direction.
I would like to thank everyone for your response,
many thanks and kind regards.
I’m trying to picture that issue in my head so I can look out for it when helping others in the future.
Do you have a picture to show it?
Do you mean that the Y axis belt idler pulleys were binding up somehow? (The X axis timing belt and idlers are behind the core and inset, I’m not visualizing how that could bind)
I’m going to tag @vicious1 to this topic as we’ve had some recent discussions about how the LR4 could be made even better. This arrangement of parts was a part of that discussion.
You are very welcome.
The community here tries to be very supportive of one another.
It is rewarding to see our community members get their machines running and then to see all the things that the community makes with those machines.
