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I can't get the nozzle calibration to work. I tried different video functions.
The detected circle is usually the middle hole or the edge of the collar.
I was never able to get the software to detect either the inner nor the outer
edge of the nozzle 'working' surface.

Thank you for sending the replacement X rails. Now the X direction movement is much smoother. There may be still a problem though. Movement in X direction when the gantry is in left rear corner of the machine generates noise. The noise is like high frequency vibrations. It’s not coming from the whee...

I used thicker washers to offset the wheels on X movement, most of the gap between X rails is eliminated but there is some twist in the beams, probably because they are of different lengths. The X wheels make noise on one side of the machine while they are quiet on the other side. BTW, what's the ma...

No worries.

Thank you very much for your support.

An update on the gaps between the two parts of the X gantry. The gap is actually needed as the spacing between the wheels of the X-direction moving assembly is bigger than the spacing between the ways of the X-gantry. The wheels were pushing the two parts apart creating the gap. Different lengths of...

It looks like the main culprit is the distortion of the flat washers at the wheel screws where the eccentric spacers are. That's the spacers between the wheels and the mounting plates. If the screw is torqued too much (I thought I didn’t use excessive torque but apparently I did), the washer becomes...

The wheel mounting plates are bent/deflected only when the wheel screws are fully tightened. When the wheel screws are completely loose, the wheel plates are quite flat. The problem may be in the lengths of the front/back beams and the X gantry beam or they way I assembled the machine. I'll do some ...

I checked the bearings, they are installed properly. When the wheel screws are not fully tightened, the v-grooves of the wheels don't make contact to both sides of the slide, just on one side like on the attached picture. When the eccentric spacer is turned, the v-groove falls in place and both side...

I started assembling assembled my LitePlacer and tried to do the wheel alignment but the movement of X gantry and pick up head as well may not be smooth enough. When the eccentric spacers are aligned, the movement is not completely free. There is quite some friction. I’m not sure if that’s correct o...