Sorry to post so often, but I have read through the manual a few times and I’m not seeing a section on the Spindle Carrier and Router mounting.
It looks like there’s multiple height options, so which holes do I use for the 65mm Spindle Carrier?
See:
I ran into the same issue. I got the spindle instead of the router. the video and the instructions state to place it where the router was. which is not helpful when you did not have the router. also you should review the instructions because it seems to be geared toward engineers. is there a dummies version. there are some steps that are skipped so the video that states " It took 90 mins to put it together is very miss leading. Others are taking over 12 hours. It took me a couple of days.
@Eddybehr exactly!
That is my experience as well with the assembly manual. I don’t think they need a dummies version - they can just read some Lego manuals - those are honestly excellent assembly manuals.
I hope they will consider investing into improving there guides - these are not inexpensive machines.
I will be back at my machine tomorrow afternoon. If I remember correctly is used a measurement outer ot the manual the did the router to spindle install and there was about 2”2-2.5” of the spindle housing below the bottom side of the spindle mount. If you remade the documentation it state there is no specific position. It needs to be adjusted to be able to have the reach needed to get down to the table Zero with the applicable bit installed. The measurement above got me to reach the spoil board + a couple of tenths with the shortest length bit I had at the time. You can always adjust this as need per the instructions of other user feedback on this forum.
Go to:
click on “How to VFD Spindle”
Go to:
https://carbide3d.com/hub/docs/65mm-vfd-spindle/
Open the manual:
scroll down to pg. 10:
and interpret the photo to indicate that the tip of the collet nut should be ~3" from the bottom of the spindle mount.
Alternately, a common-sense approach which is a bit more flexible is to load the shortest tool you plan on using, choked up as much as is reasonable, then positioning the carriage so that the tool tip is over the opening of a T-track, lower the spindle until the tool just barely reaches the top of the aluminum surface (which ought to be as deep as one would want to cut).
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