What I failed to realize is that a part of the endmill was stuck on that raptor nail, so it kept breaking whatever the next bit was.
I swapped it out for another endmill and the same thing kept happening even though I had slowed it way down and taking very light passes. I shouldn't have been doing it at full depth. What happened was an 1/8" endmill broke going full depth (.2795") when it hit a raptor nail. I had to redo some parts and ended up breaking FOUR endmills. I guess they weren't affixed as well as I thought. I had to turn off the dust collector so they wouldn't get sucked in. It was fine, but I didn't do tabs and some of them went flying. or wish I had a thunder laser 130w for stuff like this).įor the pieces that didn't require the radius of the 1/8" bit, I used a 1/4" compression bit. I think I should have just used the vacuum but I wasn't sure if it would have dealt with the cupping (and dealing with onion skin is annoying with so many small parts- wish I had taken the time to make a pressure foot. It wasn't enough and I had to use raptor nails. To secure the 2' x 4' plywood (1/4"), I did the blue tape trick with super glue directly onto the spoilboard. Anybody have feeds and speeds they like for an 1/8" bit on 1/4" plywood? I used an 1/8" bit for the whole profile cuts of the large pieces instead. Let me automatically do the 1/8" parts real quick and then you can cut out the rest with your 1/4" bit."
Some of it requires an 1/8" bit but most of it would be fine with a 1/4" bit for speed. I'm hoping to make a few more of these again so I wanted to write out what happened while it was fresh in my mind in case people smarter than me have recommendations for how to make it go better next time.įirst, I wish there was some sort of vectric auto detect that would say, "hey, I see you want to do a profile cut. Just finished cutting this and a lot went wrong.
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