CNC Shark Forum

Thanks Larry, that is good to hear,
Mike

Just to give feedback for future people's reference, I gathered up my courage and tried the touchplate with my .024 in dia router bit. Joe's research helped steel my resolve. It turned out to be a non event. Worked great, gave me an accurate zero, and appeared to be very gentle to the bit, Mike

Thanks Thom, My bits have the ring at .8 as well. I suppose I could snug the collet down with no bit in it, then raise it .8 and rezero and install the bit. I'll try it with the bits installed based on responses I've gotten, and if I have problems use the rezero trick. Mike I do some PCB and acrylic...

Thanks Joe, that is very helpful! Nothing like real experience to answer a question. Thanks again for taking the time to run the experiment! I'll be willing to try the bits now, Mike And the results are in! Once I knocked the corners off the hex handle of the gauging drill so it would chuck into the...

I have some small orifice gauging bits down to about #68 or so what ever that measures out to, that i would be willing to subject to sacrifice to see if it can withstand the touchplate if you would like me to try it. just let me know. JTGM #68 is .031 inches dia which is one of the sizes I'll be us...

4DThinker wrote:I had a student use the touch plate with a tapered 1/16" ball nose bit and it worked fine. .0625" is still much larger than your .4mm and .6mm bits though.

I know, and they are kind of pricey! Still that is a good data point, thanks 4D!
Mike

I'm about to start an inlay project that uses very small dia bits (.4 and .6 mm). My touch plate is convenient, but I don't know if you can use it with such tiny bits. Any experience out there on this topic?
thanks, Mike

this was a great heads up for me. Using zero on the top of the material was always intuitive for me, but I could see in the future where I might have selected the bottom of the material if I was more concerned about the tolerance there. I need to remember that vectric is not shark specific software!

Tom, I know you already know about the hard limits from your previous posts, so I'm trying to think of something a little less common. Contamination issues can cause lost steps or cables snagging, etc. However, are you saying it is always exactly 1.5 which would imply software or control issues or "...

Thanks for the help Drueth. I think the fro suggestion is a great idea to allow for easy speed optimizing. Now I just need to poke around and find how to set it on Piranha! The machine uses a pendant and cannot yet be controlled by a computer so there is no control panel software, and directions for...