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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Help/Advice

« on: July 08, 2013, 02:52:20 PM »

Thanks for your mail, I have just had a phone call from Brett who has given me a couple of things to check out, but in answer to your questions, I am using a new Ball nose router cutter which is 1/8 inch diameter and using a 10% stepover
Thanks
Alan

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Help/Advice

« on: July 08, 2013, 11:17:01 AM »

Sorry about all the pics but it just shows the problems that I am having.
Alan

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Help/Advice

« on: July 08, 2013, 11:03:36 AM »

Here is a couple of close up of lines
Alan

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Help/Advice

« on: July 08, 2013, 10:34:11 AM »

Hi
I know that this is maybe not the correct place to put this but as there are a lot of people here who are using routers I thought that I might just get a better response.
Anyway I have a problem to which I do not seem to be able to resolve with my router when machining either soft or hard wood and it is now getting very annoying if you look at the picture you will see what I mean I am getting lines which you can clearly see and no matter what I do to try and cure this problem nothing seems to work, I have tried all variations of feeds and speeds but nothing seems to work, I have a solid machine not a small machine that I have built it does not move or vibrate in any way, as you can see by the picture of the machine it is 5 axis and as I say it is all very solid so I am just hoping that someone just might know the answer to my problems  and please do not tell me to just sand these lines, these lines are around 0.5 to 0.75mm deep and I have tried machining at all different angles with the grain against the grain etc.
So please help me out here I have not got much hair left to pull out
Thanks
Alan

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Engraving

« on: June 29, 2013, 05:42:55 AM »

Has anybody tried to engrave the back of an Apple iPhone?  (Glass back cover)  if so what sort of tool do you use? also would it be possible to engrave a picture onto the back?
Blackk8898

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Five Axis

« on: January 16, 2013, 11:33:00 AM »

Hi Ray and Russ
for your responses much appreciated, I just wanted to make sure that I was not doing anything wrong by using what i class as the normal homing position, the machine is using a five axis head X,Y,Z,B,C,
Thanks again
Alan

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General Mach Discussion / Five Axis

« on: January 16, 2013, 07:05:26 AM »

Hi to everyone
Just like a bit of clarification with homing, on vertical and gantry milling/routing machines the home position is normally bottom left hand corner now I have just converted my 3 axis gantry router to a full 5 axis and I have been told that all five axis machines home to the centre of the work table now I personally have not heard that before and was wondering if anyone out there could clarify where the home should be for a 5 axis router??
Thanks
Alan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: edge finding/2.5D probing

« on: December 05, 2012, 04:28:48 PM »

Hi there
I have been trying to find where to download this probing software without having any luck could you tell me if it is still available to download anywhere? Please
Many thanks
Alan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Fifth Axis

« on: November 07, 2012, 02:35:11 PM »

Thanks for that did not really think about that hopefully the picture tells you what configuration the machie is.
Alan

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General Mach Discussion / Fifth Axis

« on: November 07, 2012, 01:50:49 PM »

Hi
Not sure if anyone can help me out, I am in the process of converting my 3 axis router to 5 axis and wondered if anybody out there had a demo program that I could use to make sure that everything works as it should do and help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks
Alan