spike
01-15-2008, 06:08 PM
Hi Guys.
Here's a new one on me. The other day I was starting a carving project and had went through the usual questions and prompts at the beginning. I had the board loaded as usual and the machine was going through it's measuring. When it got to checking the depth( touching the bit at different locations) everything seemed fine untill it moved to the side of the macine where the keypad is. The head went down to touch the spot next to the brass wheel and for some unknown reason decided to power up the bit. Before I could get to it the bit had drilled a nice hole through the plastic.
I checked to see if anything else was damaged and all seemed allright. I should have realized that the machine was mentally unstable at this point but continued with the carve. I stood right there and watched till the carving was done. No problem. The final operation was to cut the board to size. Well the machine must have thought the board was several inches thick because it didn't stop with 3 or 4 passes but kept cutting till it was down to the bit holder. Have any of you had this happen?
Spike
Here's a new one on me. The other day I was starting a carving project and had went through the usual questions and prompts at the beginning. I had the board loaded as usual and the machine was going through it's measuring. When it got to checking the depth( touching the bit at different locations) everything seemed fine untill it moved to the side of the macine where the keypad is. The head went down to touch the spot next to the brass wheel and for some unknown reason decided to power up the bit. Before I could get to it the bit had drilled a nice hole through the plastic.
I checked to see if anything else was damaged and all seemed allright. I should have realized that the machine was mentally unstable at this point but continued with the carve. I stood right there and watched till the carving was done. No problem. The final operation was to cut the board to size. Well the machine must have thought the board was several inches thick because it didn't stop with 3 or 4 passes but kept cutting till it was down to the bit holder. Have any of you had this happen?
Spike