Hi all - before I have a service person come down and try and figure out what might be wrong with my engraving machine, let me run by those of you out there that have a Xenetech rotary engraving machine and see if anyone else has run in to this problem, and if so, what the solution was.
My Xenetech is era around 1991 or so. It is a 1624 model (earlier than the 1625).
Problem: intermitantly, when engraving in plastic, the spindle will not go all the way down to the material and engrave. It sky writes. Sometimes it lowers a bit, sometimes no lowering at all. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason for the problem. I can be engraving and the spindle will engrave all letters fine on the plate, but when I move to the cut out phase, the sky writing begins. Or, perhaps it will engrave the first letters, but in the middle of the sign, it begins sky writing. So far, after it does this, if I move on to some engraving jobs on brass, using the other settings, when I return to plastic, it begins engraving again just fine. Last night, it started sky writing towards the end of the day. I turned off everything, blew dust out of the control box, reset, restarted everything and it still was sky writing. Then this morning, everything is fine and it engraved on plastic fine.
Don't know if it is a board glitch problem, where the board is wearing out or? There are no burn marks on any of the boards. Nothing appears or smells like it is overheating.
The problem could be in the toggle switches I guess, or ??
Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. I don't want to get 'stranded' during a big job, so am trying to figure out the problem a head of time and get whatever it is fixed now. But it is like having a problem with you car - it is so random, with no reasoning, that I can't even really describe the problem because no one thing seems to cause it to sky writing, and no one thing seems to fix it.
Ideas??
Cindy M |