I'd say you've manage to find a decent feed & speed for that particular type of wood, so all good I guess.
Terrible stuff wood, just so inconsistent. Should be banned, I think I'll write to my local member and demand they sort it out.
Tony
(From what I hear you can't buy any wood in the US anyways, so job done!)
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Sent: Thursday, 13 May 2021 12:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [MachCNC] is this possible
i had "finish" cuts and got rid of them. this helped.
On 5/12/2021 6:55 PM, Tony Smith wrote:
You can't really do light cuts in wood (like a 'spring cut' in metal) because it'll
splinter etc, maybe that's what was happening so the deeper cut from the
higher feed rate helps with that.
You could always put the feed rate back to what it was and crank up the
cutter speed and see what it does, if only for your own amusement.
Tony
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spencer@...
Sent: Thursday, 13 May 2021 5:36 AM
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Subject: [MachCNC] is this possible
I am getting really tired of making the same parts i have been making
for 7 years. the only fun is making improvements. So I decided to
work on my gcode and clean it up and optimize tool motion. gets a
little scary when i get close to a fixture but i managed with no crashes.
I was previously (last many years) using various feed speeds and then
using feed override to get the speeds i really wanted. it has taken
years to fine tune the speeds to deal with varying grain etc etc.
BTW, running mach4 with ESS
So i changed every F command to double what it was and ran the
program.
I think i notice a significant improvement in finish. Specifically i
was getting long wood fiber threads on the top surfaces (upcutter but
ordered a bunch of other bits to try including expensive ones by Vortex.
This makes no sense to me but i have only cut 10 parts. Usually 5 are
OK and then one has some strange grain pattern in it and it comes out
stringy but after doubling the speeds (still that same speed in the
end because i use FRO of 100%) i have not had a stringy part and the finish
elsewhere looks better?
Am i hallucinating?
Best regards, Spencer Chase
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Best regards, Spencer Chase
67550 Bell Springs Rd.
Garberville, CA 95542 Postal service only.
Laytonville, CA 95454 UPS only.
Spencer@...
(425) 791-0309
