I had my first success today with the upgrade. Here is a link to a video of the carve in action! Sorry about the loud volume; I wasn't in the mood to edit the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlQ46e3gwiA Details: I needed some 1 1/2" dowels for my newest table project, so I decided to try my best to use my CNC upgrade. I had problems in two areas: First, my Z-axis stalled when raising. Second, I had to make shallow passes to keep from stalling the A-axis. One thing I did notice was that as the motors warmed up, my z-axis was much better behaved and seemed to work well. I spent just about 8 minutes per dowel once I got the procedure down. I even bumped up the A-axis motor speed and ran it so that I could run some sandpaper over the finished dowel--it's pretty nice to be able to do that. I must say that I absolutely loved the ease of repeatability that the CNC commands provided. My Z axis held it's depth without having to constantly fiddle with locking down the Z axis on every depth change like I used to do. Small changes to depth are really easy to make. I ended up just where I wanted to be with my dowels, a bit undersized at 1.48" to 1.49". Although I spent most of my evening in the shop, I feel like my time was at least equally spent vs. manual milling without the added frustration and effort. It was nice to prepare the next blank while I was waiting. Next up, the big timesaver would be to cut my threads via CNC. I don't know where to start with that one, if anyone has any tips. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills?hl=en.
