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I'm with Rob. I've always isolated the zeroing plate from touching metal.

Could be the left rail (that the car rides on) is out of plane with the other rail. Not sure what vintage machine. Older ones had mild steel rails, that need to be "dressed" periodically, especially...

Brady Watson wrote a great blog on ramping values and how to tune the ShopBot

How do you lower the deck? Manually?

Thanks Bill. Thought I was, but possible I unsubscribed in one of my mad clean out the "in box."

Unable to give you a step by step but you might want to check out this link; https://www.shopbottools.com/support/

Never heard about it. Was it advertised? E-mails sent out?? Sponsored by ShopBot??

Not very familiar with Corel X6, but I believe it will export other vector file formats AI, dxf, svg,... you might try one of them. Or do the entire design in Aspire. ;-)
Personally, I've had...

Amana Tool 51325 Carbide Tipped Stagger Tooth Plunge 1/2 D x 3-1/2 CH x 1/2 Inch SHK Router Bit (toolstoday.com) Do as as coryatjohn suggests OR
Leave the 1/4" pull the piece from the table flip it...

As always, beautiful work Scott.

Looks good! Nice renderings. "I'm not certain if this louver will work; I might need to time the motor activation carefully so that the motors opening the louver start first. What do you think?" I...

Sounds like something is out of square. Check the Gantry hasn't racked, isn't square to the rails. Also be sure the rails are dead parallel to each other. Drop the pinions off the racks, move the...

Thank you Scott,

It's been trying times for sure! We've been playing it safe as well with a 92 , a 93 and a couple 80+ year olds not to mention the youngsters (all the way down to 7). Hopefully...

Lucky Liam! Those look great. I'm kinda partial to the first, the lighter one, not that it matters, ;-)
Hope your Holidays are warm and you and yours are safe.

I like this idea, although if you should happen to accidently send the bit through the spoil board (which I've never done... NOT LOL), there'd be hell to pay.

In 2005 /2006 I put in a 1.25" thick Paperstone bed. (I was cutting a lot of countertops at the time) If you are going to cut a vacuum grid into it (probably any phenolic top) you should keep in...

Looking Good!

https://www.mcmaster.com/oil-separators/ not the only source just a place to start. It's recommended (and good for all air tools) to have one down the line (far enough away form the compressor so...

The bear is very indicative of the north west, captures it wonderfully, I'm sure you will do it justice, even though you're on the other coast ;-) I've done very little carving on the Shop Bot but...

Absolutely Beautiful! Exquisite detail! Looking forward to seeing it in the soap stone. Thank you for sharing!

Don't think you need to remove the gantry but you will need to check for level and square after moving it. It doesn't take too much force to rack a bolted frame.

Vectric V10.5 Tutorials | Thread Milling Toolpath Guide 2D Toolpaths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehb6KKyLdcI

There are a lot of variables that go into Amazons pricing AI and none of it is transparent... or fair. But they are convenient.

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With clear Gorrilla glue... used liquid nails once but decided it was over kill.:rolleyes:

Since I don't have strong enough vacuum (just a diy two motor "black box") I glue the MDF along edges and across the bed every 24". When it gets surfaced down to about 5/16" I glue new MDF on top. ...