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by Dave Poulin
Sat, Jun 05 2010, 10:37PM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: Cutting Solid Core Bamboo sheet
Replies: 4
Views: 5675

Re: Cutting Solid Core Bamboo sheet

Thanks Jerry, Will have to play again with the full pass. I got one tool supplier telling me to use a a downcut spiral rougher and another supplier is telling me that is cuctomer had great sucess with the compression bit. do realize that we need a fresh cutter, even on my sliding saw I always used a...
by Dave Poulin
Sat, Jun 05 2010, 10:16PM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: Errors on tool measure
Replies: 5
Views: 5333

Re: Errors on tool measure

Thanks Will. CNC Automation is the direct thermwood authority in Canada, and don't get me wrong their service has been great, we just discovered the problem late on friday just before end of shift, so just bad timming, sure problem will get taking care of on monday fairly quickly. Did play with the ...
by Dave Poulin
Sat, Jun 05 2010, 5:21AM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: Errors on tool measure
Replies: 5
Views: 5333

Re: Errors on tool measure

Thank you for your reply Ryan, I guess it's a service call, machine is 2 months old, will start emailing CNC Automation right away. Little disapointed that I got a reply faster from the forum, than from cnc automation, but can't argue, it was 2:00 when I called on a friday! Thanks again for the swif...
by Dave Poulin
Fri, Jun 04 2010, 1:33PM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: Errors on tool measure
Replies: 5
Views: 5333

Errors on tool measure

Was getting ready to put a new spacer board on, when I went to measure my tools after changing some tooling, i got a few suprise error message. Firts one was " Z Axis is out of Bounds". NC reset the machine and tried again, this time the error message was "Machine is out of table work...
by Dave Poulin
Thu, Jun 03 2010, 9:00AM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: Cutting Solid Core Bamboo sheet
Replies: 4
Views: 5675

Cutting Solid Core Bamboo sheet

As anybody have any experience with cutting solid core bamboo sheet. Done a few jobs now cutting Bamboo slab doors, figured out that a convetional cut did a better job than a climb cut. But I'm still getting blowout on one corner. Tried only with the compression bit, taking 1/4" deep cutting, a...