Replacing the Pulley itself isn't hard to do, the question is if they are going to send out a replacement Pen Board or just parts that need to be soldered onto the Pen Board. Graphtec has sent them both ways. When you update the Pulley you will either have to replace or solder parts onto the Pen Board, if you don’t feel comfortable in soldering then you might want to wait for a tech.
I don't see any of the parts in question connecting to any board, but both you and the technician at Reece hinted that a board replacement will be necessary.
Why is this?
The only parts the guy at Graphtec told me the #'s for were:
Y pulley Part Number 792700705
Pin Part Number 772126660
You should be able to replace that pulley.
I though it was a X axis issue rather than a Y axis issue,what kind of testing
they had you do to determine it was a Y pulley issue ?
In my original post, I was wrong about the direction as I was basing my information off of a failed cut and I had the rotation wrong. The skewing is entirely on the horizontal axis.
By the way, I've always thought that a Y-Axis was vertical (forward and back in this case) and an X-Axis was horizontal. Am I just wrong, or is this something that graphtec does?
Even the guy at graphtec called it a Y-Pulley.
Just for clarification, we are talking about the pulley that moves the carriage belt left & right, aren't we?
As for the test, I preformed enough test cuts to clarify the problem apparently, as I described what the problem was and the guy just seemed to know.
After pen-plotting 15 rows of 29 1"x1" squares (which was supposed to make a grid of squares), each row is shifted slightly more to the left of the row that precedes it, with the final row being the most shifted.
For cut-only vinyl this isn't a problem usually. But for contour cutting, it will ruin any job that has more than 2 rows of decals.
