Hey Kurt-
I don’t think machines have started shipping with the new Z plate. As Craig mentioned, it is much shorter than the original plate. Below is a picture of the new plate and also installed. For my newbie work, the depth limitation is much more the end mills and router bits than the ShapeOko’s Z travel. Most of my mills have cutting lengths that are 3/4" or 1" at most. I recently tried to carve a sign using the 1/32" ball end mill that Carbide sells, but it could only cut about 1/10" deep because past that the cutter widened to 1/8" (the shaft diameter). I assume a much longer one would just snap in my fingers the way so many of the tiny carbide PCB drill bits do.
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