I’d. recmend offering a Beaver CNC designed and built CNC memachine that matches the perfection of the MDZ.
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Anyone have their settings for a touch plate in here in imperial? Tried changing the settings but having issues now with it.
I do all of my machine setup in the Software/G Code Sender in metric. The PP of most design packages will convert inch to metric.
The settings for the offset and how far the z moves when checking on a touch plate. Using inches mine would check the first time and then go way too high for it to come back down without catching an error. I just switched it back to MM and it works fine 
Just being stubborn
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Morning guys
I’ve been talking with a couple of makers who mill aluminium and wanted to keep chips out of their axis as best possible. Usually when milling aluminium you won’t be using dust boots.
I’m looking into bellows, but in the mean time designed some adhesive chip guards. These mount to the bottom of the axis using a bit of double sided tape.
67mm file for the Makita
72mm file for the Dewalt
82mm file for an 80mm water cooled spindle
downloaded stl file for v carve and cut out of 2 mm perspex… fitted with double sided tap… works great
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Is that the start of a dust shoe or something else altogether?
chip guard… downloaded from beaver cnc
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It’s a chip guard I put together for those milling materials not suitable for dust shoes I.e oily aluminium
Stari, you probably already have your answer. I discovered that when your entry reverts back to 100, it is because you did not hit RETURN or ENTER on your computer. Before hitting SAVE, HIT RETURN or ENTER, and your change will catch hold.
Yep! Spoke with Luke about this and yea kind of felt stupid but that was the issue.
I am having another issue however that I’ve just been dealing with in ugcs.
I run a project, once it’s done it goes back to the tool x/y. If I hit any of my macros like front left / center / right. It shoves the axis into the front of the machine. I have to hit the macro and then the *stop button before it hits the front.
Once I hit stop, I hit one of the macros or tool zero it works fine and goes back to where it needs to go.
Can you share a macro?
Front left: G53 X -870 Y -850 z -5 F2000
It could be, but even if I post the “center” one G53 X -430 Y -425 z -5 F2000, it will move straight forward instead of back to the center.
Are you in incremental mode (G91) by chance?
Put a G90 in front of the G53 just to be safe.
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Ill try it out when I get to the house, thanks!
Hey guys.
Have any of you with the HDZ that ordered the new dustboot for it received it yet?
Yes. Received it yesterday. Somehow, it will be installed today.
I haven’t heard anything from them yet.
Ordered July 27.
Sigh… I haven’t even gotten a notification. I have alot of stuff to do with MDF and I’m not touching it until this thing comes in. I ordered on the day the announced pre-order.
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