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I built the modification for the chip management shoe this morning.
Glued 2 pieces of 3/4 MDF together to get the height, then scrounged up a piece of 1/4 plastic of some kind for the base. Bolted the whole thing down on the mill table and started chewing. The most amazing thing about this picture is that the spindle is turning about 3000 RPM, it captured it with the flash with no motion blur at all. Not bad for a cheap point & shoot Cannon.
And out pops the parts.
The spacer in place:
And the completed assembly
I used brad-lock T-nuts without the brads to keep everything compact. If I ever need to take it apart I'll have to drill the screws out, I assembled it with red LockTite. I didn't want it dripping parts in the middle of a cut.
And this is how it looks installed. The bottom is just above the collet nut. If I ever run the Z down that far, I'm doing something wrong. It works great now. I should have copied every other shoe I've see to start with, but I didn't understand why they were built that way. I had to see for myself. Live & learn.
Glued 2 pieces of 3/4 MDF together to get the height, then scrounged up a piece of 1/4 plastic of some kind for the base. Bolted the whole thing down on the mill table and started chewing. The most amazing thing about this picture is that the spindle is turning about 3000 RPM, it captured it with the flash with no motion blur at all. Not bad for a cheap point & shoot Cannon.
And out pops the parts.
The spacer in place:
And the completed assembly
I used brad-lock T-nuts without the brads to keep everything compact. If I ever need to take it apart I'll have to drill the screws out, I assembled it with red LockTite. I didn't want it dripping parts in the middle of a cut.
And this is how it looks installed. The bottom is just above the collet nut. If I ever run the Z down that far, I'm doing something wrong. It works great now. I should have copied every other shoe I've see to start with, but I didn't understand why they were built that way. I had to see for myself. Live & learn.
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