We haven’t even finished setting up the machine properly, we were cutting up some baffles for some speakers we’re building. We have had some weird occurrences where the machine goes off in a random direction, cutting pretty deep and fast in turn putting a lot of strain on the Dewalt, it’s as if the Gcode got corrupt or something, very weird, seems to happen after pause/resuming although I haven’t confirmed if that’s just a coincidence or not.
The dewalt just started bogging weirdly and completely died while cutting about 4-5mm depth into baltic birch. It was the 4th baffle being cut, I’m not sure if it’s a defect or we’ll just probably keep burning through them if we use them for this heavy cutting… Also would like something that will be able to cut through 1/2 baltic birch in less than 4-5 passes…
Looking at those 1.5kw water cooled chinese spindles off ebay. Expensive, but overall if we want to be serious about cutting up speaker parts with a CNC it might be the first step. Maybe even 2.2kw since they have the ER20 collets? Decisions…