Shopbot desktop and cold conditions.
Greetings:
Just wondering if anyone else has encountered this : I have a desktop that's 4-5 years old. I use it primarily for making guitar/mandolin/ electric bass parts. It's located in my basement which is usually about 57 ish degree this time of year. I ran a big project about 2 weeks ago gutting out 1/2" ply parts for building forms. Probably 25 pieces and zeero glitches.
So this week I went to set the machine up for another job. When I moved the tool with the keypad, it worked fine... smooth motion...Z travel smooth also.
Then I went to zero the x,y axes using that function on the keypad,and the machine was jerky and refusing to zero. I used the keypad to bring the tool to 0,0 the x,y axes.. then tried to run a part. Once again the tool was jerky and 'stuttery' . As the day wore on, I was able to cut a couple small parts. And wa able to zero out the x,y axes using the keypad. No changes to the machine, computer, or software other than the shop being maybe in the high 40's rather than mid-hi 50's in this cold spell.....
Has anyone had issues with the machine not performing correctly in the cold? As i said, I ran a big job with zero issues a week or so and ten dgrees warmer.....
Thanks for your feedback... and Go Patriots!