{"id":929,"date":"2010-02-22T14:12:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T19:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thmsblog.tedatum.com\/?p=929"},"modified":"2010-02-22T14:14:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T19:14:19","slug":"broke-my-axe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/?p=929","title":{"rendered":"Broke My Axe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The HB2 broke a coupling on the Y axis again. The couplings have been fine for 6 months. Must be more loads on it than I thought, but it <strong>is<\/strong> the axis with the dual steppers. It should have \u00bd the loads. The X and Z axis have never been a problem.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it was most likely an alignment problem causing the couplings to flex too much. I was very particular in checking the alignment in the last replacement.<\/p>\n<p>This time I am ordering extra heavy couplings from PDJ. They are the same style and exact size as I have been using but are built much stronger. They are a bit less expensive too, probably because Phil buys them in greater volume.<\/p>\n<p>The failure spoiled a project I was cutting. Always happens near the end don\u2019t you just know\u2026 I am glad it was a concept part and not some valuable slab of rare wood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HB2 broke a coupling on the Y axis again. The couplings have been fine for 6 months. Must be more loads on it than I thought, but it is the axis with the dual steppers. It should have \u00bd the loads. The X and Z axis have never been a problem. I thought it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[13,138,19,21,24,33],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-brew-2","tag-carving","tag-cnc","tag-engraving","tag-hobby","tag-machine","tag-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/77778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}