A friend got the wife and I a much needed weekend at a hotel, so I didn’t get to making progress on getting my Pro fully ready for service until this afternoon. I got the M6 threaded inserts in the Hybrid Bed, making it a double Hybrid Bed. I like options and using M6 inserts means they match the thread pitch of the workholding kit that came with the machine. They go in from the bottom and sit below where the bolt heads and extrusions sit, so they don’t get hit during surfacing.
I also got a surface on the wasteboard. Took 0.020" to get it all level. I have some ideas to level the areas where the endmill can’t reach in the slats that I’ll test tomorrow. I’ll go in depth on the bed leveling strategy I’ll use for the Pro soon.
It was actually fairly well trammed as assembled. The Y was off about 0.010" over the 7" of my tramming tool with the X being around 0.005" off. That’s pretty good and only really made for almost imperceptible lines with my 1" surfacing bit. I’ll do a write up on my process soon as well.
So not only does the Pro save you time in assembly, I found it to save time on tramming.
Nice detail. I set that height as my zero, raised it 0.100" and just jogged manually while cutting. I then did return passes at zero. Not the fastest way, but it worked well. I machined up to the ridge left by the initial surfacing. I just scooted the rear slats back, But now that I’ve done it, I recommend removing the 8 center slats, and putting the outside two side by side and finish removing the rear area on them.
eventual XL Pro onto the XXL to do this exterior trimming. Then back to the XL for surfacing only.
