Originally Posted by
bradywatson
Assuming that you didn't lose steps from pushing too hard or too deep...
It's Winter & dry...static can do some weird things. Make sure your dust collection is grounded using the following EXACT method: Take some .025" MIG welding wire (not flux core) or equivalent BARE copper wire and run it THROUGH your dust hose. Let it poke out of the 4" hose at both ends (just fold it over the end of the hose @ the router end) and connect it to the chassis of your dust collector. This is assuming that you didn't break the grounding lug off of the end of the plug & it is in fact grounded.
-B
Just to clarify Brady. Are you leaving the router end free and not attached to the frame of the Shopbot at all? At the DC end are you connecting to the frame as well as having the DC connected to earth via the mains plug?
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