I just set my Journeyman up for the first time yesterday and followed the guide for aligning the rails and securing them. When homing, the Y will not come forward, but when I jog the Y with the joystick, it hits the gantry block and grinds. I messed around with the soft limits because I added thin wipers, but then I noticed the Y rails appear to be in different positions when homed.
Here is the left Y rail where you can see a noticeable gap between the linear rail and the block:
Alex - they should be at the same location. Try pulling the left side forward when the right side is all the way forward. If that doesn’t work, I think you can remove the ball screw to get things aligned. The @OnefinityCNC guys might have a better suggestion.
With the machine turned off you can rotate the ball screw by hand, when it’s on the power applied to the stepper motors will make it very difficult to turn and should be avoided.
Ask Onefinity Support. I cant find the post but i think the solution was releasing the bolts on one of the y axis mounts, run the xaxis to the end of the yaxis then reapply the bolts/screws.
Thanks for the reply. I followed OF support instructions and took the X off and jogged the Ys to the front until they were flush. I then re-mounted the X and was able to do my first cut. Only problem is I didn’t clamp my piece down enough so my first cut was ruined! Lesson learned though
The closer it gets to foot of the rail, where the stepper motor is, my Y axis gantry block is tougher to move. I did some maintenance on my ball nut so the X axis (gantry) was removed, the machine was off and I was trying to move the Y gantry block by hand for the oil to break in but it gets almost impossible to move when getting closer to the back of the rail. I’m only cutting petg 0.080 sheets with it and no incidents happened with my machine so far. It’s a 2021 X-50 Journeyman. What would be your take on this issue?
