Just getting ready for a long weekend of carving and one of my Y-axis belts breaks. Barely a month into owning it. Fortunately, I found a 5 meter length at Amazon that I can l pick up tomorrow.
Looks like I’ll be ordering the stuff I need for the 9mm upgrade sooner than I expected…
I was a little dirty? Maybe I had it too tight? It was 5lbs at 1” according to the fish scale. Looks like my left side is fraying on the edges also. Grrr…
Hi @AndyF that is not an expected behavior for the belts. Please contact Inventables Customer Success and review this with them. I believe we need to send that belt back to the supplier for analysis. That failure mode is outside the expected range of operation.
I had the exact same thing happen to mine last night. Just got it in January and it very little run time on it. This was the first big project I have done.
Was like 4 hours.
Wow! Second belt break! This time the X-Axis belt. I haven’t even had it together and running for three months. I’m at 4.5lbs @ 1". I wasn’t planning the 9mm upgrade yet, but this is getting frustrating. Was just almost finished with something I’ve been prepping and cutting for two days. Ugh…
Phil recommended 4.65 so I stuck around that. My Y-axis stiffening mod has made it easy to cut at higher speed than stock but I’m not sure the belts can handle it. I may either need to upgrade to 9mm or slow down. That would suck though, because I’m finally running at a speed that I can get chips of MDF instead of sawdust and my cuts are so clean…
If the sign in the background is what was being carved => a lot of back’n’forth movement on a small area of the belts. The wear will be high and a belt upgrade (9mm) will help spread the load.