Had an odd thing happen tonight. Toward the end of a project, after the carve, I vacumed off the peice, switched to the 1/8" cutting bit for it to do the cut out, and set it going. As the peice moved back into the machine the part that was under the rollers became visible and was very dusty. So I waited for the bit to be in a corner and opened the lid to vacume out some more.
As I reached for the vacume I became aware of a motor still running and looked back in time to realize that the bit motor did stop spinning, but the belt drive was still moving. Reached for the power button, but was too late and the bit snapped off as the belt moved the board with the non-spinning bit down in a groove.
Anyone experience this? Are there two sensors in the lid, one for the bit motor and one for the belt. Seems unlikely.
Second, anyone know where I can get a 1/8in cutting bit that will work right away. Was really looking forward to spending my first free weekend working with my relatively new machine and brand new bit set on some projects I have been working up. Anything ordered tomorrow (Friday) won't get here on Saturday from any place I can find (all use ups or fedex, no sat delivery). No Woodcraft stores near me in NJ, and I can't find the bits available in any Sears store anywhere. Only 1/8" cutting bits I can find at Home Depot and Lowes only have a 3/8" cutting depth.
Was hoping someone might have found something that would work in a Home-Depot or Lowes that I am just missing.