Plus, the vibration on the head at 10000+ rpm with it hanging out like that would have shaken the place apart, not to mention beat the snot out of the table or whatever it was into. It would have put huge side stress on the cutters as it started to bend and maybe even ripped all the cutters off the tool once it started to swing into the table. 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.ĭamon, I agree with Dave and it looks a lot like the flycutter wasn't spinning when it bent it 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. The only thing that got damaged other than my tooling was my pride.īut 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. ( Just got through with a few days of constant rain and wasn't sure if the boards had swollen.)Ī 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. We had just gotten through cutting the spoilboard and had measured off on the waistboard to surface it also. "Man, I can feel the twisting of the knife!" Sorry Damon but I couldn't resist that one. You'll get over the hump, I gurantee you we have all had a crash or two even if we dont admit it You got to watch any fat fingering at that keyboard as it can cost you some money in a blink of the eye as your discovering. I have ate up about 30 or so waist boards and used it for some planing, and I am stll on the one that came with the machine, think I have only rotated the cutters once.I have 4 different guys that can cut parts, but I am still the only one I trust to flycut, change tooling, measure tools or do any programming at the machine, and I dont really trust myself as I am very careful and cautious with that. I would have thought that the shaft would have been hardened and snapped before it bent. I would consider myself lucky if you did not get some serious machine or spindle damage with the force it had to take to bend that flycutter. 140 off a 5x10 of mdf in one pass and it cut like butter, did slow down the fpm a little. I cant imagine the force it took to bend that 1/2 steel.
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