Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] maximising y-axis movement range

Yo Ray;

Seems to me that you got that description backwards. If you mount the plate to
the front of the table, and the plate extends all the way back into the throat,
you've just lost all movement in the y axis. On the other hand, if you mount
the plate on the back of the table, and extend it out past the front of the
table, you can hold a bigger work piece, with the caveat the you'd have to spin
it, (the work piece), around to do the other side.

Bill

On Fri Apr 18 13:13:25 2003 cadcamclub wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Our club has a CNC'ed Sherline. We are using it mainly to learn about
>CADCAM and cutting unchallenging (cost, tools plus skills) things
>like foam, wood, MDF, waste plastics. We want to make a MDF tooling
>plate to mount onto the table in such a way as to maximise the y-axis
>movement range.
>
>The problem is the limited throat of the mill. So we figure that the
>best way is to mount it so the the frontmost edge of the plate is
>flush with the frontmost edge of the table. This is so that we can
>move the tooling plate (and the table) right up to almost touch the
>z=axis column (max. -y). Is this the correct way to maximise the y-
>axis movement range?
>
>Thank you very much for any ideas put forth.
>
>Ray

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