Hello All, I am thinking about changing all/most of the wheels on my Lead 1515 as I have been really pushing them and they look a bit worn to me. My question is, are they easy to change the rubber part only or should I get the entire assembly? Thank you
Hi All, I am contemplating upgrading my stepper motors on my Lead 1515 from the standard NEMA stepper motors to High Torque ones. Is it worth upgrading? In other words will I get higher travel times, IPM and Depth of cut, and hence faster machining times. I do lots of 3D and profile cuts and some of them take way too long currently. Any opinion here?
Its a lot of work to pop out the bearings, plus if the wheels are worn, bearings are far along too. Hard to dislodge the first bearing, by prying through the other bearings race to reach the inside lip. Bad wear is sometimes an indication of having had the eccentrics set too tight, or too much debris (invest in a Dust Shoe for Routers ) causing premature wear
Yes I do agree that dust is perhaps the culprit. I do have a dust shoe but my X Axis is half way up on a High Z system and as such I can't locate a good dust shoe that can work with such a high cut, so my dust shoe seldom touches my material. I have a new shoe on order to see if that makes the difference. My vac is probably not powerful enough as well. That too is being looked at. That all said, I have attached a picture of some of my wheels as I might also be picky about wear and perhaps it is not as bad as I think but I have no reference to go by. As for being too tight, I doubt as I have always had problems with getting all of the wheels to grip, there is usually one or two per gantry which spins too easily. So my plan was to address this at the same time.
