Yeah, I've moved the axes in fixed distance increments as well, so I know that's all sorted. Good thought though.

I went out in the garage to try some of these suggestions the other day and discovered that my water heater was flooding the garage, so I had to take care of that instead.

I will get back to this on Friday though and report back here. Don't forget about me!


Edit:
Well, I had a little time to look at it last night. I changed my driver to 1/8 step mode and while that sounded cooler, it didn't really help with the problem. Right now I'm kind of checking the alignment of the parts as I suspect there's a lot more resistance than there should be. After taking off the motors I was able to feel a significant difference in the amount of effort it took to wind the X axis as compared to the Y. After I get that issue sorted I'll try the dampening disk as well. More updates to come.