Is your router frame a parallelogram? Mine was!

Like @woodsnipper said check your squares for squares. I was confused the other day when after I squared up my machine it seemed more out of square. Turns out the large framing square was noticeable out of square.

If you are using a framing square I would check out this video.

Also if your machine is just a little out of square and you are using the coupler nut method to protect your bearings, adding a washer (or two :woozy_face:) can help bring it in. You can do less with a few layers of soda can. It is pain for me to unbolt everything because I essentially have to remove all the cable rails just to do a minor adjustment.

Lastly if you end up having trust issues with your square like I did. You can use this method to bring it into square. Note this only works with the coupler nuts at the rails.

  1. Get it as square as possible with the above methods.
  2. Set 0,0 to the center of your machine.
  3. Have your machine engrave a large rectangle with a V-bit about .30 mm deep.
  4. Mark the corners. (I found putting a push pin half way in at he back and sewing pin at the front helpful.
  5. Measure the distance between cross pins. The delta is approximately is how much one side needs to be shimmed out. I.e. if 3328 and 3330 mm. I would add two .
  6. Rehome y and set your zero to the precision offset
  7. shift your zero by 5 mm or so in the X or y.
  8. Repeat steps 3 thru 6 until you are happy with the result.
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