Evening All,
I’m looking for recommendations on Feeds etc for the above tool. It’s a 1-1/8" surfacing 1/4" shank 3 flute bit.
Speed, depth of cut and plunge I believe is all I need.
I’ll be using to level my MDF waste boards and also some white oak boards I have.
Thanks in advance!!!
So few things with these kind of tools
Thanks for your comment.
Would you recommend the speeds above for both MDF and oak? Being 2 completely different density I thought I better ask!
I’ll stick with 40% of tool diagrams for stepover and will have a look on Amana tool’s website for recommended RPM for the bit with MDF and hardwood and go off that.
for oak I’d reduce depth of cut most of all
Okay now I’m confused. The Amana tool table is saying, for MDF, 200 IPM 0.25 depth per pass? Why is that so high compared to what you said?
On a super big machine you can go faster for sure…
but on a smaller machine, if you go that fast you might get deflection, and while with small bits that;s ok, with such large bits you can see lines show up a little bit on deflection.
(and at 25ipm… you can use the + button in carbide motion to go all the way up to 50 ipm if thing seem to go really well)
Not on a belt driven shapeoko…
It might make it on the Y movement, but I would guess it would miss steps on the plunges and X moves.
Thanks for the info, will go with what you say and see how I get on with it in the morning!
punched in the details. 31" x 31" MDF 18mm thick with a 0.04" depth per pass (1.016mm) and ill remove 1mm first to see if it cuts on the entirety of the board so hopefully should only need 1 pass with a 40% stepover so long as I don’t get ridges ill be happy 
Ive set it up in a Pocket function for the entire surface, will see how I get on!
You might bump that up a “bit” Some bits need to plunge enough to “Bite” into the wood.
I think your setting will be near that limit.
Have you trammed your spoilboard?
Do you mean for the X and Y of the Router? I haven’t spent a whole lot of time on it I suppose. since the issue is only at the back of the machine I thought it would have more to do with the X rails? I have tried to lift them at the front slightly but it didn’t change the difference prior to surfacing the waste board.
I’ll give what Winston advises in this video a go tomorrow. Is there anything else I should look out for?
If this was a one time occurance, I would guess there was something under your material raising the front a slight amount.
If it is a repeating occurrence it would look like the waste board would need resurfaced to match the machine.
Jog the spindle to a front position over the waste board and set your Z zero to the spoil board. Raise the spindle enough to clear and jog to the rear of the spoil board. Jog the bit down to touch the waste board and read your Z position. Is it 0.000 ? If not, re-surface the spoil board.
That’s what I did so i surfaced the board with a 1mm cut off the 18mm board. it doesn’t seem to have rectified my issue.
Do you set your Z zero at the material surface? or spoil board?
I have been setting it at the top of the material and for flat endmills I have been using the speeds on Carbide Create. I thought zeroing on the waste board might make the first pass too deep for the bit if there was a zeroing issue across the waste board. I checked mydf that I cut and it was 18.2mm thick across the entire length
Good evening gentlemen! Thank you for your time however it was wasted, I am amazing!..
Nope. In all honesty I hadn’t tightened up a few of the bolts between the MDF and the steel stretchers!
I suck! Looking good now! Will surface in the morning then back to cutting! No more movement hopefully!!!
