Yes, it's the tube that failed. Cardboard... duh...
I will either add a piece of pipe or more disks as you suggest.
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On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Bill French <william.fre...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I don't know where it failed, but guessing maybe something with the
> cardboard tube, maybe "walking"? What, if instead of the tube, you
> just had a lot more of the disks, like you have in the tube, holding
> the material down?
> Maybe they're not square enough?
> On Dec 6, 10:43 am, Darcy Whyte <da...@siteware.com> wrote:
> > Okay, after about 6h of operation, my cnc roller system failed. Anybody
> > care to hazard a guess at what engineering mistake I made?
> http://mambohead.com/2011/11/look-ma-no-clamps/http://mambohead.com/2...
> > I'll put up the pictures of the fail shortly....
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