{"id":170,"date":"2017-01-26T18:37:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T18:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thoughtfulconcepts.com\/blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2017-03-03T18:39:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T18:39:14","slug":"x-axis-alignment-fine-tuning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diycncdesign.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/26\/x-axis-alignment-fine-tuning\/","title":{"rendered":"X Axis Alignment Fine Tuning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the gantry mounted and the rails bonded in place, I was able to fine tune the X axis rail alignment.\u00a0 I loosened the linear bearings on one rail and attached a dial indicator to the gantry at that same end, reading to the reference edge of the profile rail.\u00a0 I ran the gantry back and forth to see how far out it was across the whole range of motion.\u00a0 Most of the rail was within +\/- 0.001\u201d parallel to the opposite rail.\u00a0 Toward the end there was a 6 inch section that was out by 8-10 thousandths.\u00a0 I loosened those rail mounting bolts and applied some pressure on the rail by hand to bring it back to zero before re-tightening the rail.\u00a0 After rechecking the whole rail it still needed some minor adjustments.\u00a0 After a few rounds of this I am happy with the straightness.\u00a0 Next up will be mounting the X axis drive assemblies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the gantry mounted and the rails bonded in place, I was able to fine tune the X axis rail alignment.\u00a0 I loosened the linear bearings on one rail and attached a dial indicator to the gantry at that same end, reading to the reference edge of the profile rail.\u00a0 I ran the gantry back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[10,15],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wood-cnc-router-build","tag-diy-cnc-router","tag-x-axis-build"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8t9Fx-2K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diycncdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diycncdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diycncdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diycncdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diycncdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.diycncdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/www.diycncdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diycncdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diycncdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diycncdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}