The Universal Carrier Base

[Stormin]

Tried carving the UCB and this happened twice.

Any ideas?

[bergerud]

No idea. The mpc does not have cuts like that. Is the machine trying to cut the board to length??

[luckettg]

Do you sell these already made?

[bergerud]

Do you sell these already made?

No, you have to make it yourself. The machine will cut out all the wooden parts. You do have to also buy some hardware.

[luckettg]

I have had this happen, multiple times since I got my CW in 2007. It did it again just last week. I am not sure what is causing it either. After destroying the lumber blank, then replacing it, everything starts working fine. I suspect something with the wood, but I have seen this do it along with the Z axis not functioning correctly either. My bet is on some sort of CW software/hardware glitch. I have flipped the damaged blank over to carve on its opposite side, and it works fine. The machine gives no error messages when it fails like this. As you can see on yours, the Y axis seems to be working fine. Running the blank back and forth on the X axis shows no problems either.

Tried carving the UCB and this happened twice.

Any ideas?

[ekimnamyr]

I am making the 24" ucb at the point of gluing the rod bosses on it says to attach square ones to rear and rect. ones to front which is front and back only difference I see is hole location for the rods. but which is which?? front and back?

[bergerud]

Look closely at the sides and note that the front end is the longer end. (The front is longer so the Carrier front stays under the roller even when measuring the board.)

In the Designer mpc, the fronts are on the left.

[ekimnamyr]

Got it Berg sorry should have caught that myself.. Sorry thanks..

[solitaryhunter]

Would anyone be interested in making and selling one that has been tested? i would love one but for multiple reasons i know trying to make one will be difficult for me, just curious no hard feelings if no if the popular response.

[SteveNelson46]

Would anyone be interested in making and selling one that has been tested? i would love one but for multiple reasons i know trying to make one will be difficult for me, just curious no hard feelings if no if the popular response.

They are really not that difficult to make. Dan did a good job explaining how in the instructions and making your own will give you a tremendous advantage on how it works.