What's causing this?

[dhunt]

That mount is junk.

It was OK for a PR back in the day that didn't go over 2 IPS and Z speeds 1 or under.
The machine probably had enough slop in it to mask the flex in the mount. ===> Allegedly accurate to 0.015 in.

Get one of the cast AL ones:

http://www.shopbottools.com/files/SB...mblyBinder.pdf

Page 35 - "Mounting the Router or Spindle"

You'll have to call SB for a price.

Thanks for that link.. Will try to act on that

If we run the old girl at anything over 1.5 ins. a sec. we are in a tearing hurry
so it has suited us just fine, so far
but yes I recognize the inadequacies of ten year old technology

[Brady Watson]

The 10 yr old technology has served me well...but I have upgraded to PRS Alpha drives and a PRT Alpha gantry. I welded my old PRT gantry to beef it up and that worked out well too.

If you maintain, tighten up & gusset these machines where they need it, they can perform like a new tool. Every little bit makes a difference.

-B

[dhunt]

The 10 yr old technology has served me well...
but I have upgraded to PRS Alpha drives and a PRT Alpha gantry.
I welded my old PRT gantry to beef it up and that worked out well too.

If you maintain, tighten up & gusset these machines where they need it,
they can perform like a new tool. Every little bit makes a difference.

I appreciate all of what you say.

Problem here is the 'local' guys who get to run the machine for a spell, between my spells here.
That's when things slide.

Locals simply don't do maintenance.
No grease on the rails for years, muck in the wheels,
this slack, that slack...
They simply don't care. Someone else will fix it. That Someone is Me.

Every now and then I get called to the breech
and we do big rehab's of the machine that make it last another few years.

Life in da tropix!

[Brady Watson]

There's a sayin' down there in them parts: "The beatings will continue, until morale improves!"

Maybe that should be changed to: "The beatings will continue, until maintenance improves!"

-B

[srwtlc]

Hey Dave,

You should go back to Paul's and ask him to let you play with his VCarve Pro software. That is if he's not out fishing in that new boat he built!

Better yet, download the trial version from Vectric's site.

Keep Vector handy for those special ocassions.

Scott

[dhunt]

There's a sayin' down there in them parts: "The beatings will continue, until morale improves!"

Maybe that should be changed to: "The beatings will continue, until maintenance improves!" ===> Hell yes!

Hey, it's either we cry or we laugh, eh? - Better we laugh...

As indicated previously, life is very different in these parts.

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Attached is a picture of our latest technological improvement and possible cure? to the groove problem
although we're busy cutting a gingerbread pattern fascia board order right now
so the groove problem(or its cure) will probably not show up..

Three hose clamps securing the Porter Cable -how hi-tech is that, huh?

Actually they're doing a pretty good job,
but we are considering that cast aluminum mount to do a better job.

[dhunt]

You should go back to Paul's and ask him to let you play with his VCarve Pro software.
That is if he's not out fishing in that new boat he built!

Better yet, download the trial version from Vectric's site. ===> Have done so, but so strangely difrnt from Vector!

Keep Vector handy for those special occasions.

That is a nice boat he built. I saw it in his shop and was admiring it.
It's got nice lines....

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Yes, sooner or later we have to move up from Vector
and a few instructive VCarve Pro lessons from Paul will become necessary.
I can see it in the future.

[jerry_stanek]

I ran the code on my PRS standard and it cut just fine