Great vid. Love you doing the one hand squeeze. I use it all the time. I started when one of my previous CNCs had poor torque on XY steppers and it would shift using 2 opposing hands to lock/, unlock the collet nut
For some CNCs you don't have an easy way to rotate the router back and forth, like you did with the beam. In that case you loosen the motor mount and put shims in between to tilt the whole mount. That's what I had to do no mine and it wasn't very difficult.
Well, IMHO tramming is crucial to surface the waste board because you cannot get a perfectly flat waste board with a tilted bit. Of course you must have a reference surface to "measure" the tilt from, but you'll have to surface the waste board first to get a better surface, but you can't use it as a reference for the reasons told above. So you need a flat surface (aluminium plate or so) so measure from. Then do your tramming with the traming tool and Hinkle's method, then resurface the waste board. Another way to get a (close to) correct reference surface) is to surface the board with a very small bit, ideally a ball nose bit, so the initial tilt won't be a factor.
Using this method makes the assumption that your bed is flat. Which it probably isnt. So you'll likely want to do it twice. Surface, tram, surface, tram once more.
Thank you for sharing this one Vernon! Excellent Info!
Your welcome
This video almost wasn’t LOL!!!
had to complete on separate days due to my own fussing 😆
Great vid. Love you doing the one hand squeeze. I use it all the time. I started when one of my previous CNCs had poor torque on XY steppers and it would shift using 2 opposing hands to lock/, unlock the collet nut
Thanks John I was over tightening in the beginning now I don’t with one hand
Your like Quick Draw McDraw with that tape measure. It just comes out of nowhere.
For some CNCs you don't have an easy way to rotate the router back and forth, like you did with the beam. In that case you loosen the motor mount and put shims in between to tilt the whole mount. That's what I had to do no mine and it wasn't very difficult.
Thank you
Good to know thanks for adding that information in your comment
Well, IMHO tramming is crucial to surface the waste board because you cannot get a perfectly flat waste board with a tilted bit. Of course you must have a reference surface to "measure" the tilt from, but you'll have to surface the waste board first to get a better surface, but you can't use it as a reference for the reasons told above. So you need a flat surface (aluminium plate or so) so measure from. Then do your tramming with the traming tool and Hinkle's method, then resurface the waste board. Another way to get a (close to) correct reference surface) is to surface the board with a very small bit, ideally a ball nose bit, so the initial tilt won't be a factor.
Thank you for watching
Using this method makes the assumption that your bed is flat. Which it probably isnt. So you'll likely want to do it twice.
Surface, tram, surface, tram once more.