CNC Shark Forum

Scheffy, I get what you're saying but this was not a fast cut. Took 16 minutes to run the entire 24"x24" spoil board. The machine never bogged down. A 1/16" cut in MDF wasn't much of a challenge. That said, why an hour glass pattern. I would have expected a more square or rectangular pattern for the...

I ran a pocket pattern to flatten my spoil board and it created and odd, non-flat pattern (see attached picture). First time machine has run and the software and machine seemed to work just fine. New 1" diameter spoil board bit with 40% overlap on each pass. MDF 0.0625 cut depth Offset, conventional...

I am very curious to hear what you have learned or come up with for dust control. My shop gets sub zero in the winter months so I have my CNC in a basement shop. Sound could be an issue.

Update for anyone else putting the HD4 shark together. Very tight tolerances, which is what you want. Here is how I solved the issue. As mentioned above, I took out the horizontal bold and slid the bracket on to the spindle. It was difficult to get the spindle bracket to fit back into the gantry bra...

Great answers. Sounds like I'm heading in the right direction. I appreciate the support.

Thanks,

Dave

Spindle bracket.jpg Putting together a new Shark HD4. When I place the spindle bracket on the gantry holder it fits nice and snug. However, I cannot slide the spindle into it and there is no room to expand it open further as it is up against the inside of the spindle bracket holder. The anterior ho...