Shortly after getting into CNC for the first time with a shark 510 and after doing two or three small projects with it, I tackled a larger more ornate piece. It wasn’t huge. It was probably 20 x 20” and using one and a quarter inch thick solid lumber.
The problem I ran into both times is that the bit seemed to work great for a long period of time, and then it would just suddenly dive into the work. I called support, and we went through everything that they could think of and nothing fixed the problem. We ran a ground wire to everything, ran a test cut, which was a pretty simple shape, etc.
The problem got worse and worse until I could repeat it with every rapid move up or down of the router head manually. It would give out a horrible squawk, and then the Z axis would be shifted.
It turned out, all I had to do was lube the vertical screws with light oil. And support had never run across that, and they were of no help in this case. I had to figure it out on my own.
So now, I clean and lightly oil the horizontal and vertical screws between each run. Some of my final cleanup runs are 24 hour runs, so I never want to lose that much time or that much wood on a project. Also, my projects are not for salehey are for my family so I don’t recover anything.
I’m new to the forum, so I don’t know if this is simple common knowledge that people have run into many times. For the newbies, I would’ve loved to have known about this before I wasted so much time and two beautiful chunks of thick lumber.
Keep making woodchips people
The problem I ran into both times is that the bit seemed to work great for a long period of time, and then it would just suddenly dive into the work. I called support, and we went through everything that they could think of and nothing fixed the problem. We ran a ground wire to everything, ran a test cut, which was a pretty simple shape, etc.
The problem got worse and worse until I could repeat it with every rapid move up or down of the router head manually. It would give out a horrible squawk, and then the Z axis would be shifted.
It turned out, all I had to do was lube the vertical screws with light oil. And support had never run across that, and they were of no help in this case. I had to figure it out on my own.
So now, I clean and lightly oil the horizontal and vertical screws between each run. Some of my final cleanup runs are 24 hour runs, so I never want to lose that much time or that much wood on a project. Also, my projects are not for salehey are for my family so I don’t recover anything.
I’m new to the forum, so I don’t know if this is simple common knowledge that people have run into many times. For the newbies, I would’ve loved to have known about this before I wasted so much time and two beautiful chunks of thick lumber.
Keep making woodchips people
