Router tip does not reach cnc bed or spoil board
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Router tip does not reach cnc bed or spoil board
I have recently installed the HD520 SPOIL BOARD KIT in hopes of solving my flatness issues and providing myself with a grid that is square to the machine rather than the bed.
I discovered that my router doesn't travel low enough to touch the aluminum bed or the newly installed spoil board.
I have a Dewalt router in the machine and am using typical CNC bits.
Until now I have just raised my projects up with scraps, but you can imagine my delight in learning about the spoil boards and grids!
I am new to CNC, and I hope this is a dumb solution. - Thanks
I discovered that my router doesn't travel low enough to touch the aluminum bed or the newly installed spoil board.
I have a Dewalt router in the machine and am using typical CNC bits.
Until now I have just raised my projects up with scraps, but you can imagine my delight in learning about the spoil boards and grids!
I am new to CNC, and I hope this is a dumb solution. - Thanks
Re: Router tip does not reach cnc bed or spoil board
There are many solutions:
1. Try lowering the router in the clamp if possible.
2. There are holes of the sides of the gantry legs that can be used to adjust gantry height. Are there any empty holes beneath the holes being used now?
3. What you are doing now...raise the stock with scraps, or a thicker spoilboard.
4. Is your Z travel hitting the gantry?
What do you think about these?
Bob
1. Try lowering the router in the clamp if possible.
2. There are holes of the sides of the gantry legs that can be used to adjust gantry height. Are there any empty holes beneath the holes being used now?
3. What you are doing now...raise the stock with scraps, or a thicker spoilboard.
4. Is your Z travel hitting the gantry?
What do you think about these?
Bob
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Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek (Developer of the microscope.)
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek (Developer of the microscope.)
Re: Router tip does not reach cnc bed or spoil board
Thank you for replying.
The answer to your suggestions.
1. The Dewalt (approved model) can not go farther down in the mount.
2. I see where the gantry holes are. The setup indicates that I need three holes filled with screws. I am at the lowest setting in the gantry legs without losing screws.
3. Raising stock with scarps is how I have been working for this limited time. However, making things square and flat to the machine has been a problem, and I shouldn't HAVE to do this.
4. My router doesn't reach the spoil board before the limit on the gantry is reached.
I am thinking of trying a collet extension I found on amazon.
I am confused as to why the router is approved if it cant reach.
Still hoping there is a simple solution to this...
The answer to your suggestions.
1. The Dewalt (approved model) can not go farther down in the mount.
2. I see where the gantry holes are. The setup indicates that I need three holes filled with screws. I am at the lowest setting in the gantry legs without losing screws.
3. Raising stock with scarps is how I have been working for this limited time. However, making things square and flat to the machine has been a problem, and I shouldn't HAVE to do this.
4. My router doesn't reach the spoil board before the limit on the gantry is reached.
I am thinking of trying a collet extension I found on amazon.
I am confused as to why the router is approved if it cant reach.
Still hoping there is a simple solution to this...
Re: Router tip does not reach cnc bed or spoil board
Can you post a pictures of the router in the clamp and also the height of the gantry sides.
Thank you,
Tony
Thank you,
Tony
Buffalo,NY
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"What will matter is not what you bought but what you built; not what you got, but what you gave”
Aspire 11.015, photo vcarve, cnc mako shark extended bed with the new upgraded HD 5 gantry with Led pendent.
Re: Router tip does not reach cnc bed or spoil board
Here are a couple images of the router in the machine and the side legs bolted.
Re: Router tip does not reach cnc bed or spoil board
Remove the depth adjusting ring on the router.
If it were removed, the router could be mounted further down in the clamp.
If it were removed, the router could be mounted further down in the clamp.
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Re: Router tip does not reach cnc bed or spoil board
Why have you not posted a Side View photo of the router mounted and moved down to its lowest point(-Z) on the Z-Axis?
It may or may not help in determining the issue but at least the photo may help rule out a suspected issue.
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Re: Router tip does not reach cnc bed or spoil board
Thank you Tony,
This suggestion provided what was needed to determine a solution:
"Can you post a pictures of the router in the clamp and also the height of the gantry sides."
Bob
This suggestion provided what was needed to determine a solution:
"Can you post a pictures of the router in the clamp and also the height of the gantry sides."
Bob
"Focus"
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek (Developer of the microscope.)
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Re: Router tip does not reach cnc bed or spoil board
Well then "What is the solution?"This suggestion provided what was needed to determine a solution:
"Can you post a pictures of the router in the clamp and also the height of the gantry sides."
Sharkcutup
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Re: Router tip does not reach cnc bed or spoil board
"a solution"
We'll wait for "the" solution from jmarsz.
We'll wait for "the" solution from jmarsz.
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Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek (Developer of the microscope.)
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek (Developer of the microscope.)