CNC Shark Forum

I did contact Next Wave and they sent me some files for tramming X & Y. After being gone for a while, I did those today. I had previously lubed the gantry and "y" bars underneath.I also dropped the spindle down about a 1/4" as I felt it was too high. After running the tramming per their instructions...

I have lubricated and checked everything for tightness. Nothing seemed off. The machine is almost brand new having run about 15 projects and about 7 hrs run time on it. Not quite sure how to post the crv file.... Feed rates for the compression tool are...80 ipm @16,000rpm at a .2 depth in redwood Fo...

Everything seems to be tight. I'm thinking that I need to tram and shim the spindle.

Why are my cuts looking like this? All bits are 1/4" shank. Wood is redwood Pic 1....Outline cut using a 90 deg V carve bit. The oval is not meeting at the exact point from start to finish. Causing to go back and hand sand that area. Pic 2.....Bottom clearing cut is not uniform leaving various ridge...

OK....update...I THINK I FOUND THE PROBLEM Strange.....after loading the USB to the pendant, then ran a zero Z on the touch plate. Thats normal. But then I removed the Z zero plate cable from the pendant and ALL THE PROGRAMS work fine in an air cut trial. Everything seems fine after I removed that c...

I'm a newbie so this might be a dumb question/problem. Have a Shark HD520 w/3hp water cooled spindle. Running VCarve Pro. Problem I'm having is when the cut starts on program I wrote in VCarve, the spindle turns on and spins. Then turns off but the gantry wants to go through the rest of the cut. The...