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Here is one for you gurus!

I have had my "buddy" for several years now... everything on this bot runs along just great.

For the first time yesterday I tried creating and running a texture...

Count me in too... VERY intrested....

Ken Brown
Moonlight Creations
moonlightcreations.net

Thanks Carl and Gary... will look at both.

Grounding was a big issue (or we thought) when the BOT was new... but will go back again and review that.

Interesting thoughts on the background...

I go through a bunch of purple heart and also have not seen it oily... hard... YES, bad splintering YES, painful splinters... YES...

I use Titebond 3 exclusively... never anything else and never...

Hopefully someone has an idea on this...

BT48 Buddy with spindle

I have had my buddy about 4 years and this just started happening ... getting worse and worse but intermittent.

When running...

Robert ... you mentioned an Aspire camp in your first posting... I don't see this mentioned again. Can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks guys... will take a look later today... Sounds like I may need to talk to tech support on this one as my Buddy is barely a year old ....

I am not sure i follow your suggestion Nils...

I did followup on Carls suggestion and I found no movement on X or Y and also found no unusual play with the Z either...

Back to square...

Thanks Carl! You may be on to something...

I tried going the other direction with the cut and that did not change.

I also did a first cut like I always do going .20 on each pass then...

Jack - I failed to mention that I am using PartWorks to create the files.

Gene - Thanks for that suggestion. Actually I did look at the scraps and they look about the same but cutting in the...

I have seen a problem for some time where we notice that along curves the cuts appear to be very slightly rough. Almost what i would call chatter. We are getting tired of sanding so thought it's...

Give me a couple of days to get pictures posted... sorry... really busy here!

I have the buddy with the aluminum table. I cut multipule items at a time and never do anything larger than 18 x...

Courtney... welcome to the community!

I was in your situation exactly a year ago... Air graduating to foam and then (yikes) wood!

Suggestions on free wood... cabinet shops and lumber...

This one has me a bit stumped... I have a project for our business that we want to apply a half round edge to hand mirrors we make.

I am going to use a Whiteside 1432 to do this.

I have...

And here I thought I was the only one that ever did that! I was too embarrased to admit that one!

Thanks Steve!

Again to everyone ... THANKS!

I ordered some V bits from Onsrud.. I have been using the Centurion bits exclusively and this was my firt try with their 1/4" 120...


Thanks Matt for the...

Thanks Scott!

As I was out running errands this afternoon I could not stop thinking about this situation and had concluded that the small bit vs the large letters were likely my issue......

I am a bit of a newbie on this... especially doing something on the size scale of these letters.

As you can see below the scale of this logo is fairly large (by my standards)at 18" in length.
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Sorry guys... being stupid... but what is T9?

Here is info from Brady Watson that I got when I did the "Brady Vac" on my Buddy...

"You will want to get yourself a 1/4" spiral-O flute bit with a 0.500" length of cut (no more than .75" LOC) -...

Russ - Good luck with everything... The bad news on all of my 'fun' is that I lost time being able to make sawdust! The good news? I now know my Buddy from every possible angle... I have had my...

Some great suggestions! These comments and suggestions for this newbie is why I leaned towards ShopBot... you guys are great!

FYI... my spoil board/jig is expanded PVC. So there should not...

Thanks Steve and Scott... I am using a dedicated fixture... but I could open vacuum hole a bit more and get more suction. I had also not thought about the addition of the gasket.

Steve -...

I just got my BT-32 up and running and after some great onsite training here in Dallas by Grant we are now dealing with trying to get the machine and our product to cooperate.

I have the Bt-32...

After several weeks of frustration tech support has resolved my issues with the Comm Error problems I had been dealing with.

The problem was the controller card. But getting there was like a...