Vectric Customer

Thank you vectric, two days short of cutting again and this will make a good start. Much appreciated.

Roly from Batlow

I just want to agree, thank you so much for your generosity

I have used a body filler such as plastibond tinted with acrylic paint, filled the void adl lightly sanded back the excess.

Roly form Batlow

Is the basket weave only for aspire. I've had major computer problems and havn't been keeping up,

Roly
From Batlow

Also make sure that the machine is tuned to the optimum in Mach 3. I had similar problems when I fisrst started and found it to be that.

Roly from Batlow

Been there done that. Luckily made a full recovery and can barely see where it chewed on the finger.

Roly from Batlow

I have found that if you paint the letters and then try to paint the foreground with a foam roller there is a certain amount of bleeding into the cavity which I then have to touch up with a brush. Hope this helps.

Roly from BATLOW

I would go with Danish teak oil or tung oil or something similar because it is easy to renew the wipe on finish.

Roly
from Batlow

Sorry, I cannot find the toolpath I used and the item I made was a one off football club badge of a team I don't follow. I used a bit of trial and eroor and did not change the feeds and speeds from what came up after I made the toolpath.Thr feedrate I set on my tool defaults was 100inch pm. Hope thi...

I used a 90 degree diamond drag with quite a bit of success and also carbide tipped bits for shallow cuts just to get past the high gloss surface. Only went down about .5 mm.

Roly
from Batlow

I have been struggling for ages trying to cut cogs and came across "Brian Law Clocks". He has several models for downloading and they are different sizes. The beauty of his are that they all mesh and have different number of teeth. Hope it helps.

Roly
from BATLOW

Hi, Every time I try to cut letters into aluminium I get these little raised edges around the letter where the bit has cut. I almost seems as if the bit is not cutting but just digging in and raising the centre like a can opener. I can sand them down but this spoils the appearance of the surface I a...

I don't have a shark pro but I was having very similar problems only to find the machine was not tuned properly velocity and acceleration etc. Once I went into Mach and set all the parameters it worked fine and haven't had a problem since, touch wood.

Roly
from Batlow

Hi gents,

I have been out of action for a couple of days so havn't been able to reply.

Thank you all for your input, I will now go and try all suggestions and hopefully will come up trumps.

Thanks again,
Roly,
From Batlow

Viktor, I have attached the G code but I do not hold much hope that this is a software problem. I thought that the Z axis may have been binding a bit and just gave it a fine coat of powdered graphite grease. May make some difference. Fleming, Before making my last cut I leveled my spoil board with a...