Tom,
> Even though my motor is rated at 1.25 hp, I don't think it has enough > torque to > qualify for wood routing using a bit larger than 1/4" or so assuming direct > drive. So that means for me, this would be a perfect candidate. I do not use bits larger than 1/4 except for prepping the sacraficial base board. My gantry wood router is not rigid enough to achive high cutting speeds (>200 ipm) to cut MDF/wood with the proper chip rates and a higher speed router. The result for me is I generate too much fine dust. I did some tests running at high cutting speeds (160ipm) and the mdf chips were a noticable chip and very little fine dust was created. If I can slow down the spindle to say 8-12,000 then I can get the right ratio of chip load versus lateral speed (90-120 ipm) which my gantry can handle and not generate the super fine dust. Heck, with speed controls, I can probably then use if for cutting plastics and perhaps shallow custs into aluminum. Too bad I don't live closer to Kansas...... Hope you and Kurt continue to pursue this thread further. Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
