The Shapeoko Forum

There is a small video showing it in action here:

https://youtu.be/AX3JelkR2HI

CastIrony wrote:That's an interesting escapement, does it have a name?

Yes. It is designed by Brian Law and has a gravity escapement design.

And one more.

For a while some months I have abandon the project because I was making 3D printers but finally I have manage to put everything together and surprise-surprise everything is working from the first tik.

Check the repeat distance of the wobble. If it is the same as the perimeter of the wheels that means that one (or more) of your X wheels have ball bearings that they are wobbly or not correctly fitted in the wheels.

George

Hi Tom, I cut a lot of acrylic so here is my experience. With routers that cannot rev at low rpm is better to use single flute cutter. You have to use the lowest possible rpm in your router. Mine goes down to 15000 rpm. With 1/8" cutter single flute I cut with a feed rate of 50"/minute (1200mm/min) ...

I bought mine (9mm) from this one on e-bay

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/141541045825? ... EBIDX%3AIT

I use them about 3 months now without any problems.

George

Well come back clockit.

Due to a brain misbehaving moment I have ended up to have too many power supplies. DC 24V 360W 15A Universal Regulated Switching Power Supply Brand new and boxed. Two available. Will post only to UK . http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221911520837?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1586.l2649 Thank yo...

I think what has made popular the Shapeoko2 was its modular design. You could make it whatever dimension you wanted according to your needs. Unfortunately this has been lost with the Shapeoko3. It might be a great machine but due to the frame design is not any more as flexible (regarding the dimensi...