Ready Steady Eddy

[EddyCurrent]

Eddy spoke to my friend last night about this and it was exactly this reason why it didn't work well for him. It worked fine for panel work and engraving etc but was rubbish for Deep 3D work and he mainly makes casting moulds on his machine so no good.
He's played with various setups and found that the only way to deal with 3D with any decent success is to have a larger vaccum area and with big bore vacuum. The little vacs couldn't get enough volume over the larger area.!! . . . Basicly you need excess vacuum to blitz the area.
He said Small shop vac was fine for everything but deep 3D work.

Thanks, that sounds right because sometimes with deep profiles using a 6mm cutter the vac struggles to lift dust from the bottom of the slot. I have a 4" extractor but it's a lot noisier than the small one, maybe I can make two dust shoes, one for each vac.

[Jonathan]

I have a 4" extractor but it's a lot noisier than the small one, maybe I can make two dust shoes, one for each vac.

6" is much better than 4" ... http://billpentz.com/woodworking/cyc...g_introduction

[GEOFFREY]

6" is much better than 4" ... http://billpentz.com/woodworking/cyc...g_introduction

You are dead right Jon, but you will find it shrinks when you get old!!! G.

[ba99297]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[EddyCurrent]

@ba99297, wrong thread my friend, I've done it myself so no worries.

[ba99297]

Sorry Eddy!!!

[EddyCurrent]

Since using the latest Smooth Stepper plugin for several weeks, months ? I've had no problems with homing the X and slaved A drives, I would say that issue is now sorted.
ESS_v10r2d1d.zip

[Ger21]

And it only took them ~5 years to get it right.

[JAZZCNC]

And it only took them ~5 years to get it right.

Wouldn't go so far to say got it right but it does work.!

[EddyCurrent]

Proposed modifications !
This is to allow joints to be cut in the ends of wood, it provides a 'hole' of roughly 200mm square so the wood can be placed in the X or Y planes.
It's based on using this vice guts; http://www.canadiantools.co.uk/tools...19.html#SID=50, the rest is made from various types of wood (normal for this type of vice )
Made so it's removable with a replaceable insert to put the bed back to normal.

Pictures show how it looks with vice fully open and fully closed.



I can't have the vice sticking out at the front so the only thing to confirm is whether I can hold a piece of wood in the jaws while tightening the vice.
There's more than enough room above for the spindle and tooling.

Edit:

Would this do instead ?