Bruceshiel
06-11-2012, 01:14 PM
Hello,
I have an old ShopBot that I dug out of the loft and I had it running quite well for a few months, cutting plywood parts and engraving some solid timber, all was going well till a couple of months ago.
Now, from any position on the table when I instruct the router to move in a given direction, it will sometimes do as asked , sometimes it will give a bit of judder in the wrong direction and then go in the right direction (but be off in length of cut due to the judder) and sometimes it will go completely the wrong direction till it thinks it has completed its cut.
It is an old PRT type and any advice on getting it going the right direction 100% of the time would be greatly appreciated, I have searched the forum in the past for a reference to this problem and either my search criteria are wrong/it hasn't come up before/or it's so simple an issue no one ever needed to ask.
Like I say it's an old machine, but all the same I'd like to get it going if I could.
Thank you, Bruce
I have an old ShopBot that I dug out of the loft and I had it running quite well for a few months, cutting plywood parts and engraving some solid timber, all was going well till a couple of months ago.
Now, from any position on the table when I instruct the router to move in a given direction, it will sometimes do as asked , sometimes it will give a bit of judder in the wrong direction and then go in the right direction (but be off in length of cut due to the judder) and sometimes it will go completely the wrong direction till it thinks it has completed its cut.
It is an old PRT type and any advice on getting it going the right direction 100% of the time would be greatly appreciated, I have searched the forum in the past for a reference to this problem and either my search criteria are wrong/it hasn't come up before/or it's so simple an issue no one ever needed to ask.
Like I say it's an old machine, but all the same I'd like to get it going if I could.
Thank you, Bruce