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CMM won't home

Not about beer or guns, sorry.
We moved our CMM up the road. Now it won't home. We can jog it in Z, no problem entire range. Y, just about an inch before erroring out says position error Y axis. Nothing at all in X.
Cleaned scales. Moved by hand away from home, and all over.
Air is plentiful, but new/different location. Machine needs 90psi, we tried at 90 and up to 115. Back to 90 now. Speaking of new air we also added a receiver tank. We are currently looking at bypassing that, but want to get a start on other suggestions from you guys maybe.
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  • We got the Y axis ALMOST full range of movement. Z full range. X, nada. So weird how the symptoms are improving the more we mess with it.

    EDIT: Full range in Y if I move at half speed, at full speed I get a couple inches out of it no matter where I'm at on the table before error "System Error 3043: PERR: Position error![Y Axis]". Z is still full speed, no problems. X wont move at all and give me the same exact error noted above for the Y axis.
    With all the drives turned on I can move the X by hand. I don't remember being able to do that.
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  • We got the Y axis ALMOST full range of movement. Z full range. X, nada. So weird how the symptoms are improving the more we mess with it.

    EDIT: Full range in Y if I move at half speed, at full speed I get a couple inches out of it no matter where I'm at on the table before error "System Error 3043: PERR: Position error![Y Axis]". Z is still full speed, no problems. X wont move at all and give me the same exact error noted above for the Y axis.
    With all the drives turned on I can move the X by hand. I don't remember being able to do that.
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