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The issue, Kendrick, is that often when you don't have too much knowledge about the subject (but are willing to learn!) then it's easy to ask the wrong question. In your case, you possibly started...

Neil your build is looking great. I bet you can smell the wood chips already :-)

Please take what I’m about to say with a huge pinch of salt as I just fitted my first rails ever on my first build,...

Gezzzz People have too much trust and expectations of epoxy.? You can't beat checking so buy or make a straight edge to confirm if you really think you need that level of accurecy in a router.!!!

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If you have read carefully my build, and implemented the technique i suggested that would not have happened. Epoxy shrinks and that is life.

Read from post #77 on, or jump directly at the...

Wow, that's one heck of a nice job you've done there. I will most certainly be asking for guidance when it's my turn to run the epoxy gauntlet.

Hooray ! it's done, the build will speed up now that hurdle is out of the way, looks good and a plus for Reactive Resins

Neil Looking good as you know I just flashed the surface with the hot air gun and the small bubbles just disappeared like magic. Happy Xmas. ..Clive

Here was my effort flashing the heat gun across gets rid of a small bubbles: ..Clive

Based on:

2 of RM1610-1300mm
55kg actuated mass


Assume:

10m/min feedrate
2m/s^2 acceleration

Hi Neil
Just checked Ken's machine and the DRO reads same as the dials,so you would put half the required amount you want to remove, there will probably be an option in the set up menu, I would...

You should be able to lower the quill and knock a drift through the slot in the spindle to release it?

Not much to add other than Angle plates and Machinst Jacks are handy for odd shaped stuff. Decent fly cutter and/or Boring head.

Various bits of bar stock so that you can make the one off specials that crop up.

You can spend a fortune on tools, and still not have the one needed for a job, so I wouldn't even contemplate trying to cover all eventualities!

Alot will depend on the size of machines you have,...

If it's for work just use the right inserted tooling, time at the grinder fannying around sharpening is fine if you've nothing els e to do though ;-)

I would add a bench grinder if you haven't already got one - nothing worse than a blunt HSS lathe tool when you need it sharp.

I also have a morse taper drill bit chuck (robbed from my pillar...

For the lathe this is the tool I use 90% of the time, love it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0claL_wnJs

For the mill -
A toolmakers vice, a set of solid parallels and a set of wavy parallels.
For the lathe -
Enough quick change holders to allow multiples of the same tools with different inserts...

Click, click, durr :witless:

http://www.homemetalshopclub.org/news/12/presentation_1202.pdf

Neil Sorry about the cock up, it happens, its called a learning curve. I was going to comment on the mixing in your picture but now you are doing it again I will. You appear to have mixed it with...

Im no expert as I haven't even hot the bits yet but I'd be fairly certain a 3d printer does not care about orientation due to the extremely small clearances involved. It's not like inkjet where the...

You can use a 3d printer upside down if you want. ,,Clive

1. Remember to put Vaseline or similar on the draught excluder. Although it easily came off with an old chisel, it did leave a tiny bit of 'fluff' stuck to the epoxy.
2. Leave the epoxy as long as...

I had my frame powder coated with the rail tops covered with 50mm masking tape I thought it would burn off but it didn't. Then a scraper removed it quite ok. ..Clive

I had those thoughts myself but decided to epoxy onto bare metal. I had put metal primer on the box section beam but before putting the moat on I sandpapered it off the top. My intention is to fit...