I had a problem with my 'Y' axis your video helped me get straight to the source and solve it I wish I had seen this before I built my machine would have saved me a lot of heartbreak. All your videos are very informative and full of great tips much better than German instructions which are better then most I have used but lacking in critical areas bolt tightening for instance. Keep up the good work.

This was very helpful. After using my 840 for over two years, I know my way around it quite well. I was feeling defeated on aligning the Y axis after months of trouble free machining. I could not figure out how to fix one lead screw that was wobbling and binding. I did every single thing mentioned in this video and just ran my first job since without issue. This all came about when the machine was running unattended, binded and broke the (nearly brand new) timing belt. I tried for two nights without success to fix the binding issue. Very happy to hopefully have it behind me.

I just bought a 600 three weeks ago, and only just got the y axis sorted now - I wish this video had been around 3 weeks ago. The PAIN (mental, not physical)!!!. That said the feeling was that much sweeter when I eventually got it right.

This video is does help. Takes a lot of patience if you are new to CNC like me but after 7 hours of use and having to re-align this twice by now, it gets easier.

So great explanation. Thanks

This video would have saved me the headache 2 years ago! I hope this helps for whoever is having problems with theirs.

"we still have no movement" whole thing moves haha

Hello, would like some videos helping us understanding the 3D printing head, the parameters and software! The settings, we are currently having a problem, at 20% the printing head is not printing anything... we think is all about settings and temperatures. Thanks

Thanks a lot for these much needed instructional videos! What is your 100% speed in mm/min? I got my 840 up to 5000mm/min without binding, but I am going to realign (yet again) based on these videos, not for speed but to get more confident the machine does not bind halfway and screws up the job.

We need a video like this for the M series

I have a question: how will you make sure that X and Y are square?

Will there be videos like this of the x- and z-axis?

really nice video, i would die to see the same video with a M.1000, i thank you in advance (other dimensions of M series is also welcome)

Shouldn't the nickels be on the flat sections instead of on the angle part of the gantry? (just nit-picking ;-) ) Very good video! I'm going to have to re-do my alignment, but think I will wait until the X and Z videos come out also! My Z axis seems to be the most sensitive and is lousing steps some. My machine it in one of your enclosures and is a real pain to get in and out there to do this type of work on it.

Excelente vídeo.que velocidad y aceleración me aconsejas para la 420 gracias

The m.1000 also uses belt drive or direct drive?

Stepcraft is a very good machine but you have to tune it very precisely (almost perfectly) if you wanna have a really working machine. Besides the things you have done, I've also added another two final steps to further refine the tuning. In my case I had an apparently unsolvable misalignment of the threaded bar not going up/down, but going left/right!!! After many trials I noticed the problem was a limit in tolerance caused by the thickness of the internal paint around the circular slots for the bearings! I sanded that part of paint and I managed to get a super perfect alignment, while, before sanding, movement was very very hard, almost impossible. Now my Y axis movement is so fluid in gears rotation that I can move it just puffing on the gears 😁 The second and final step I've noticed being very useful to make things even better, is to carry the XZ block to the starting point and letting itself automatically fix the position of the rear panel (afterwards you just have to set a little up/down tolerance of the panel and screw it). Now, carrying the XZ block to the opposite side, it will automatically fix the position of the front panel (repeating the tolerance part before screwing it). Maybe that's not a very common case, but I hope it can help someone who, as me, despite having done all the things according to the instructions, still can't figure it out and doesn't know why. The possible paint related problems are also somehow mentioned in the manual, and it's exactly said to try with sanding if some problems occurr. In fact, a similar problem may occurr in the parts pertinent with the rollers tension tuning; if there is too much paint, when you unscrew the tuning screw, rollers won't loosen because the related block can't slide.

When machines got the sound like that, why so much to do, need to remove and resetting all body, i think this machine hard to use 😭😭😭

You say to align the Z and X axis, check the links below.....there are no links to aligning the X and Z. Where are the videos for those two axis?

Do you leave the screws finger tight.

Why have you stopped making videos?

anybody know where I can buy back the countless hours I've spend fiddle-fhuking w/ this machine? Regardless of how many times I watch the video and follow it exactly, I'm still binding and have no idea how to fix it. Spend a little more and get an I2R or something similar, unless you don't really want to cut and prefer wasting time and money on a GDPOS.

Hi, where can i buy this machine? Do you have in amazon?

A Stepkraft machine was purchased, its work is failing, screws come out of its place, the one who buys it will find what I say leave it to the people to try it better

confusing

the steooen motors are to weake i wish i knew this before i spended 4000 euro on this cnc and then the price of 559 euro for a 3 watt laser sais enough about stepcraft so pleasseeeeee don't buy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

You are a failed company, you have no startup, just an advertising company, nothing more. Your product is a failure. After conducting experiments on operating the machine, for children only