DanEpps wrote:
For sure don't trust Damon
Sorry Damon but I couldn't resist that one.
"Man, I can feel the twisting of the knife!"
We had just gotten through cutting the spoilboard and had measured off on the waistboard to surface it also. ( Just got through with a few days of constant rain and wasn't sure if the boards had swollen.)
A customer had come in and I stopped what I was doing and met with the customer and left the shop for an hour and came back and forgot where I was and looked at the wrong Z Axis numbers and typed in the wrong number and when it took off, it tried to take off a 1/4" at 75% speed rate and bent the tool over. The only thing that got damaged other than my tooling was my pride.
Mastercard:
Bent Flycutter = $400.00
Damaged spoil Board = $29.99
Lesson learned = Priceless
but I did talk to a guy the other day (no names mentioned) that I went to training class with and told him about a couple of the horrer stories and he was relieved that it wasn't just him that did things like that.
The learning curve on the router is a little steep, but as long as we are just cutting parts and not doing anything out of the ordinary, we are doing great with it. I am starting to learn that I need to flycut and program at the end of the day or early in the morning with no distractions like people, phones, etc.......