Jtcolby
December 14, 2021, 8:30pm
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Hi guys. Just wondering if anyone had any tips. I’ve been cutting wooden names, and almost all the time, in the same curved spots it creates a super rough patch. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!
WillAdams
December 14, 2021, 8:38pm
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Tearout from the grain changing.
It may help to leave a roughing clearance and to take a full depth finishing pass — where possible avoid slotting and add geometry and cut as a pocket
While cutting up vacuum extension wands for this is expedient, it’s a bit problematic given that Shop Vac recently filed for bankruptcy, was bought at the last minute, and production hasn’t caught up.
I need a receptacle for the Sweepy 2.0 dust fitting — one option would be to purchase one from Woodcraft, but Carbide 3D sells blocks of HDPE:
which looks to be just barely big enough for things to fit.
Measuring the hose fitting I get a diameter of ~63.5mm — offsetting that twice we arrive at…
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One technique which is often suggested to avoid slotting is to add geometry around a part which one wishes to cut out and cut as a pocket down to tab depth — here’s one technique for that.
In this case, the project is a bevel gauge which will be cut out of 0.0625" (~1.5mm) thick aluminum:
[bevelgauge]
Due to the narrowness of the angles, an 0.03125" endmill has to be used, so after importing and scaling the file (we will be cutting out one which is 3") we select the perimeter and offset it tw…
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system
January 13, 2022, 8:31pm
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