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    Have you seen that? Its some new contraption. What are your thoughts?

    I have seen similar but actuated by air and bigger, have seen rollers. I wonder how to suck the chips so the bearing balls could roll. May be blow away constantly the dust. I see a possibility that this could be very useful if the dust is evacuated somehow.

    http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-...08.4.11.lCkg65

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    Looks very similar to a very old design for keeping constant torch height for plasma cutting/marking thin plate when the machine did not have thc.

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    Agree. I was thinking more of a usfull for engraving big sheets of thin material, where the material is fixed at extremities but no vacuum table
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    I'm thinking it could probably have uses on thin material where a vacuum bed is not available.
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    Quote Originally Posted by m_c View Post
    I'm thinking it could probably have uses on thin material where a vacuum bed is not available.
    ha ha, thinking the same at the same moment
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    Quote Originally Posted by silyavski View Post
    Agree. I was thinking more of a usfull for engraving big sheets of thin material, where the material is fixed at extremities but no vacuum table
    Exactly, I have more or less thought about the same thing/design in my head for working with thin wood sheets, 4, 6, 9mm ply and so on, this design isnt a bad one, for mine i considered bigger balls though and just LM type bearing units with round rail - manual adjustment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Roberts View Post
    Exactly, I have more or less thought about the same thing/design in my head for working with thin wood sheets, 4, 6, 9mm ply and so on, this design isnt a bad one, for mine i considered bigger balls though and just LM type bearing units with round rail - manual adjustment.

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    The most useful i have seen till now are 2 gantry wide rollers that pneumatically actuate and roll in front and at back of spindle. A bit of overkill for home use though. Otherwise would have implemented them already in my OTT build
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    Quote Originally Posted by silyavski View Post
    The most useful i have seen till now are 2 gantry wide rollers that pneumatically actuate and roll in front and at back of spindle. A bit of overkill for home use though. Otherwise would have implemented them already in my OTT build
    These are the units I was thinking about, didn't get as far as size just "head thoughts" to date but it's not complex design...

    Edit: http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/291159321989

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Roberts View Post
    These are the units I was thinking about, didn't get as far as size just "head thoughts" to date but it's not complex design...

    Edit: http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/291159321989

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    if they are big enough and spring included somehow.


    these were the ones in my mind

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    Well for spring I thought about just putting some on the linear rail that supports those units, adjust the spring as needed...job done
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