Saturday, August 23, 2014

Router Clamps

It turns out that my initial tool paths for the router clamp were calculated incorrectly because I accidentally doubled the width of my end mill in VCarve (5/8 instead of 5/16). After adding a line in the CAD file where the clamp tightens and recalculating the tool paths, I was ready to cut out two new router clamps. The first one went rather smoothly but when cutting out the second one, the z-axis coupler slipped off. A slight re-tightening fixed the problem and the second clamp came out nicely.

You can see a partially completed clamp on the left (the one where the z-axis fell).

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