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Everything works now, thanks for everyone's help!!

Here's a picture of the most recent Arrow of Light carving:
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It's perfect! All I had to do was re-tighten the y-axis pinion. The...

Alright, thanks!! :)

Thanks for that post! Super helpful :) Good idea on the loctite.

Thanks for all the tips Monty! I used a Profile Toolpath, not a V-Bit Carving. The first test was made using the tools in ArtCAM, simply drawing circles and boxes and such. The Arrow of Light was a...

Didn't know that! I'll try that out! :)

So, I checked the pinions today and the x-axis pinions were perfectly fine, but the y-axis pinion was completely loose! I could spin it around on the shaft...

@bleeth
Thanks, I will check this! :)

@steve_g
I generate the toolpaths in ArtCAM to cut along the line, not inside or outside of it. Thanks for the suggestion!

@Kyle Stapleton
Good...

Hi guys! Back again with another problem with our school ShopBot :) Here is what is happening; nearly every file I cut now is a bit inaccurate. What I mean by this is that lines aren't cut where they...

Thanks for the info Brady :)

So today I tried realigning the pinions, and that didn't do anything. I was pretty surprised, I definitely thought that would fix it. So I did something suggested to me by a couple of you guys and...

Mayo, thanks for the awesome suggestions! I'm not sure of the exact software version, I will get back to you on that.

We did mess with the turnbuckles and pinions. I didn't think too much about...

Thanks for the tips! I'll talk to my teacher about upgrading to a 4G setup. Thanks again.

I inspected all of the wires running to every motor today and there were no breaks in the wires. I inspected the motor connectors plugged into the back of the control box, and one of the x-axis motor...

Great, thanks!

The school hasn't taken very good care of the CNC, and from what I've seen the wires aren't very tidy. Now that I think of it, with the way that the wires have been treated over...

I believe it is the original control box. I have attached a picture I took of it earlier today. (The uploader decided to rotate the image, sorry about that.) The computer is running Windows 7 and...

I'm not sure how to word this better, so forgive me if the issue isn't very clear. I will try to post a video soon. I am a student in a High School, and we have a gantry style ShopBot CNC in our wood...