What Noob Stupid Mistakes Have You Made?

[Neale]

Haven't seen the DAMHIKIJKOK abbreviation for a while now although it applies to quite a few of my posts. Most recent was carefully setting XY on my router to the corner of my last piece of good-quality ply and forgetting to hit the zero axis buttons on Mach3. Ended up with a very nicely cut gear wheel for the clock I was making with a neat half-inch slice missing off one side...

[Kitwn]

Haven't seen the DAMHIKIJKOK abbreviation for a while now although it applies to quite a few of my posts. Most recent was carefully setting XY on my router to the corner of my last piece of good-quality ply and forgetting to hit the zero axis buttons on Mach3. Ended up with a very nicely cut gear wheel for the clock I was making with a neat half-inch slice missing off one side...

Oooooh, tell me more about your clocks and what software you use to design them? Wooden clocks was my main purpose in building a new CNC router, though I haven't made as much progress as I'd like.

[Neale]

Oooooh, tell me more about your clocks and what software you use to design them? Wooden clocks was my main purpose in building a new CNC router, though I haven't made as much progress as I'd like.

Rather than clutter this thread with more random ratholes, here is a new thread where I can showcase the crap that comes out of my workshop. Waits for complaints about pushing useful stuff off the list - popcorn, anyone?

[JAZZCNC]

This thread as bloody Jinxed me.!. . Been at it again today. . . . Same machine this time while setting up tool changing wine Rack was manually jogging tools into holders to get X/Y coords for Macro then MDI to next location and repeat, note the coord's, switch into text editor alter macro and repeat everything went cushty.. . . . . Then for some unknown reason with tool still in the last holder, I go and enter into MDI G0 G53 X0 Y0 . . . Anyone Spot what's missing.?? . . . . Well when you do just imagine what a 125Kg gantry powered by by 2 x 12Nm motors taking off at 30Mtr/min would do to a wine rack .