- Mon Dec 05, 2011 1:48 pm
#487
So I DID NOT break another router mount, but with great chance of breakage comes great responsibility. I was cutting the other day and as the machine was happily plodding along it bogged down and set off one of my limit switches by vibrating the table enough. I turned off the router and checked it out, I noticed the Z axis was lower by 1/2" than it was reading on Mach3, so I reset it and back tracked in the G-code a little and set it off again. A minute later the same problem so I turned off the router again and raised the Z axis and the router dropped to the work piece. What happened was the wing-nut vibrated loose. This brings up an issue, with the plastic of the router mount being prone to breakage and not being able to tighten the wing-nut down safely, the router may just vibrate it's way out if the machine at regular intervals, to combat this my current fix is a locknut with a nylon insert to keep it from backing off. I think in the future the mount should be cut from abs or a similar plastic, which is going on my list of projects to do. So be careful out there and remember to check your nuts and bolts each time you use the machine.
Tommy
Tommy