Finegrain
Diamond
- Joined
- Sep 6, 2007
- Location
- Seattle, Washington
Hi guys,
The spirited discussion around MiamiCNC's machine selection motivated me to finally make an offset toolsetter mount. This is what I came up with:
It's steel, so it will be super-duper accurate
. I happened to have a piece of 3/4" wall steel angle on hand that I used.
Couple things that I learned while making this:
1. When mounted at the very corner of the table, you don't have any good options for skim cutting in-situ. A big facemill can reach in X and Y, but not in Z unless you have some big extended-length facemill. Endmills can reach in Z, but not in X and Y.
2. Yes, parallelism of the mounting surface to the table is very important. After a couple tweaks, I got it close enough so that the error between big (5/8") and little (1/8") tools is ~.0001".
Regards.
Mike
The spirited discussion around MiamiCNC's machine selection motivated me to finally make an offset toolsetter mount. This is what I came up with:
It's steel, so it will be super-duper accurate
. I happened to have a piece of 3/4" wall steel angle on hand that I used.Couple things that I learned while making this:
1. When mounted at the very corner of the table, you don't have any good options for skim cutting in-situ. A big facemill can reach in X and Y, but not in Z unless you have some big extended-length facemill. Endmills can reach in Z, but not in X and Y.
2. Yes, parallelism of the mounting surface to the table is very important. After a couple tweaks, I got it close enough so that the error between big (5/8") and little (1/8") tools is ~.0001".
Regards.
Mike
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Nice job. I am sure it will serve you well.
