CNC Shark Forum

Dyslexia ??? I guess my tired eyes saw the date and year and mixed up the numbers. I saw 2013 the last time.

I just noticed the original post date. Wow, couple years late.

First off Feed Rates are inches per minute or mm/minute if in metric. These are the F commands that control how fast the machine moves in G01. The value is not a % of anything. Open the program in any basic word processor such as Note Pad or Word Pad. Be sure to include the decimal in the value. So ...

With all of that stuff you could make some really good fishing lures. Especially if the 4th axis ever comes out. Best of luck in your endeavors.

It could be a few things. Couplings, worn screw, worn nut, loose nut, bearing starting to fail, stepper starting to fail. Basically anything that can allow back lash. If you have a dial indicator you can check for back lash pretty easy. Mount the indicator to the table and place the tip on the Y axi...

I had this happen on mine early on. I mistakenly set my part up to far back in the Y axis since I had a lot of table space back there. Then I found out that the gantry did not have enough travel the hard way. Lucky enough no damage occurred. Since then I have taken a sharpie marker and laid out the ...

I use an external hard drive on my computers. Software licenses are stored on the internal hard drive. I can always pick up another external hard drive for more file storage. No need to start over with the vendors each time.

You can edge find with the shark control. The problem is spindle RPMs being to fast for a spring loaded contact tip rated at 1200 RPM. As for the control, run the edge finder against the work piece and zero out that axis. Repeat and see if it kicks out at the same time. Then jog up in Z and move tow...

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The shark is fun plain and simple. If all you want is to speed up the process then rough out the design with a bandsaw and finish cutting it to size on a table router with a pattern bit. I used to make 38-42 each year for a competition we hosted at the university machine shop. I jobbed out the text ...