Good afternoon everyone, Ive been having a lot of issues with this this machine, the last one being the USB board. Langmuir sent me a new one an the machine is moving again, but now I’m having other issues, maybe with the probe or possibly the tool setter and probe. First, I would set the X,Y and Z zeros with the probe, the Z seems to be at zero and level with the part, however the X and Y seem to be off, and yes, the probe is perfectly centered up with the spindle, I even double checked and its only a couple of thenths off. The ruby looks to be inside the perimeter of the part and not splitting the halves of the ruby and the part. I did run a part and its offset, not center. Anyone have any suggestions? I sure would love to use this machine!
If you look at the probe settings in Cut Control do the settings match your probe?
Just double checked the probe and settings and they are correct.
After fiddling with mine for a few hours I jist said to hell with it and went back to a damn .200 wiggler.
Some day may revisit the touch probe and the weird offset nonsense of the tool setter but I do not have the patience at the moment to fiddle fuck with it.
You can always just touch off with the probe manually as well. I’ve had some weirdness in the past with z and just did it manually since I was in a big of a rush to get the parts done. I’ll probably look into it more next weekend
Today It was the first time I opened my probe and the quality is really poor. First I noticed that when I was trying to move by hand the tip, the entire assemble would move around like it was all loose inside.
There was a very rough resistance on some side of the probe versus other and then I decide to take a look inside. WHat I found is that the tip is attached to a base that has 3 hemispheres milled that would couple with 3 spheres connected to the bottom housing. THe hemispheres were machined really rough and I found also uneven machining that was not symmetrical on all 3 side. THis is probably the reason of the rough resistance in some directions.
The other issue is that the internal electronic was supposed to be tightened to the bottom housing with 3 screws, but they were lose and all was moving around.
I tightened the screws, but the probe still was not moving properly and there was some dead move that would not actuate it. I think this one was poorly machined and I am returning it back.
Hope Langmuir can send me a replacement fast and hopefully they can test it before sending.
CHeers.
@Speppino Absolutely submit a support ticket. The probe is very easy to align if there was an assembly error and we have instructions we can provide that can get it working within spec and without lash.
A little update on my probe issue, I decided to take the probe apart and take a peek at what’s going on. My washer by the spring that holds the contact wire was ground down and out of the way of the spring, then I noticed a couple of other things inside. First, I couldn’t believe that the contact wire is just twisted around a screw with a washer, that’s just the wrong way to go about that. Then I noticed where that contact wire had been tightened in place, it was applying a side force on the probe plate in the housing. So I shortened the wire about a 1/4’ and installed a wire connector, now there’s no need for a washer. Second, I noticed that the ball ended screws were not in the center of the circuit board contact points, so I loosened all three, centered one of the balled ended screws and tightened it down, then applied direct downward pressure with the probe plate to center the other three ball screws. While keeping that pressure on the plate I thightened down the nuts that hold the ball ended screws. My probe is now centered in the housing with no canting in it, and the probe is now centered in my zero of the part. Maybe this will help someone in the future, it fixed my issues. Now on to the next issue.