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Maybe you can find a labyrinth ring seal in the right size, they could take more rpm with less friction.

Uwe

Without special equipment, brake cleaner spray and compressed air.

Will make a funny mess

Uwe

If you mean leaving the bearings on the spindle and in the head, ok. But you must remove the spindle to wash out all old grease.

I doubt it will be the seal, but also NBU15 will lubricate the seal better than cheap grease.

Uwe

5.08 with Acorn Six, no problems with OPCON.

Did you follow the instructions?

Read which Com port, set parameter in CNC12 and it runs.

Uwe

The width of the probe is only for auto measure ZX, so after measuring Z the CNC knows the center of the probes width. Measuring drills in X with the probe is a "bad habit", because if the drill edge is not exactly set in height you get wrong values, set X0 of the toolholder with a dial in...

Depends on the bearing grease, I use Isoflex NBU 15, thats good from -40 to 130C My spindle is reaching 45-50C fast and stays there even if I run jobs with 6000 rpm 16h a day. If your spindle temp keeps rising and will nor equal out at some point, I would stop at 80C, dismantle, clean and fill with ...

Yeah, I have had a really hard time to keep my printed documentation up to date

One reason my CNCs are now dual monitor...

Uwe

phazertwo wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2024 2:43 pm Chief_hacker you are a life saver!

I have been fighting com issues since I updated CNC12 last month... so frustrating!

I agree that this should be added to the COM issues tech bulletin.

PZ

Did you read the current version?

Uwe

Sure, here it is

Uwe

Tomorrow was two days ago

https://centroidcncforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=9808

Uwe