Unit comes to shop with reach carriage hitting HARD at extend and retract positions, no slowing down or softly ending travel.
Quickly discovered the screw that holds the reach travel sensor and its little tin house had fallen out and the sensor was flopping around, just along for the ride.
The sensor (I think) reads off like 1 inch square holes in a sensor bar that runs along under the reach cylinder.
Also I notice a "L" shaped bracket that's riveted to the sensor bar at the rear is bent all to ****. It (I think) it is supposed to trigger/match a corresponding square hole in the sensor house and in turn the sensor.
I put it all back together and carriage is still crashing at extend and retract.
I replace the sensor straighten up the "L" shaped bracket and try it again. The carriage now behaves correctly, slowing nicely at both travel extremes, but it keeps running over and destroying the "L" shaped bracket every time I retract the carriage.
It won't stop at the "L" shaped bracket - it keeps retracting and bends the bracket??
Does the reach travel need calibration when you change the sensor??
The stupid thing is it seems to work quite well with the sensor all bent up, so I returned it to service.
Just not happy not understanding this system.
Anybody run into this??