started a new project that uses 1/4 thick birch plywood....i had to glue a foam carrier to the wood, as its very slippery and would easily skid in the rollers. i used v-tabbing and a .0625 dia. ball nose tool. mid dremel rpm, with a 20ipm cut feed. i used the mangler with 18 cuts. it came out rather nice....also i used a ghetto airblast set-up...hopefully i can set-up rite when i get time. sorry for the poor video, don't know why it came out crummy, but you can see it cuttin the birch ply...randy.

 

thanks pilot...i am finding little tricks that help....and i am sharing them as i learn...randy.

 

Randy that last picture looks great! Are you using Tabs? I did not see any in that pic
Nice job brother!
Mark

 

yes mark, i used tabs....i like the v-tabs better for wood, as they ramp better rather than feed straight down...the tabs came out very small and i only needed a x-acto knife to cut part from panel. im not sure, but i think they go deeper than the 50% i had set for, i think its grabbing that poke thru value for the tabbing also. ther should of been .125in. left...but it was closer to like .030in. this is why im allways asking for exact depth control., lols...here is a photo of the bottom side of cut. randy.

 

The depth setting has been addressed for the next release of the Phlatscript, and I think you guys are gonna like it. It will be an option in the parameters box.

 

shaun....please, your gonna give the old monkey a heart attack!!! finally...

 

The depth of the center-lines tabs and folds should have no 'fudge factor' in them. Only Inside /Outside cuts where the bit can overshoot to take into account for the inherent waviness of the fanfold.
So if you changed the constant file you will have exact depth on your these cuts as well.
The new version of the Phlatscript in beta now allows you to tell the code to output the overshoot value of the inside/outside cuts only. Because these are the only ones being effected by it.
So this issue with the bit poking out 40% more for inside outside cuts is not an issue at all with the Phlatprinter design, because there is no table for it to scar.
It will however be nice to be able to set the amount of 'fudging' that takes place with these inside/outside cuts if only for the simple fact that your cutting flute of a particular l bit is not long enough to allow for it in the material you are cutting.
Mark

 

Sorry about that Fozzy,
There were some things in that discussion that needed to be there and I saw that that it was heading in a direction that would have been more fitting for the code crunchers section.
So I ended up moving them.
I hope this does not cause a problem.
Mark

 

Sorry about that Fozzy,
Next time If that needs to happen I will post that it has been moved

Getting back to the manglerizer program subject
I just bought 1/4 oak and 1/2 Aspen from Lowes while I was there this morning. :mrgreen: I am going to try to cut a design tonight and see how the MKII fares.
If I step the cuts down 1/16" each time what do you guys think would be a good feed rate setting? I am using a 1/16" fishtail chipper bit with the Phlat Bit Kit
Thanks
Mark

 

Fozzy, I talked a while with Randy last night and he helped me out a ton with using the speeds and feeds calculator he has posted here viewtopic.php?f=126&t=1367&start=0
It should help take the guess work out for different materials.

Last night I was up late and ended up trying the Aspen wood with the 1/16 fishtail chipper and IT WORKED!!! The wood I was using had a bow to it, but I figured I would give it a try anyway and low and behold, it came out AWESOME :mrgreen: I had no idea it could work so well. Its so cool on the MKII now because you can really move with it!
After the Aspen wood I looked over in the corner of the room and staring at me was 1/4" thick piece of oak! It was like a showdown at high noon (except it was past 1am )
I thought, I wonder could it do it? The words manglerize that wood kept coming to mind. So I grabbed it and went to work on the code.
The settings were 5 passes ( Randy was right I should have done more passes ) at 15 ipm!
I was getting some chatter but I let it run. about 30 min later something sounded different.
I looked into the MKII and realized right away that I had forgotten to tab the inside cutouts of the wood and one piece had fallen halfway getting stuck and messing up the cut ( with foam this would have been fine as the roller would have run right over it, but the wood is another story all together ). I flung the lid open and removed the wood thinking that there is no way this worked.
Take a look at the pics below to see the testing results. All I could/can say is WOW!! This is completely AWESOME.
Even though I messed up the cut, I see that it will work!
Thank you guys for all you help and to Fozzy for a cool and fun program to help the Phlatprinter cut woods.
I will be testing more in the future and my goal (right now) is to have one of these crosses Randy made successfully cut out from oak wood!
Mark Attached files

 

Thanks Fozzy I tell its a lot of fun to see this machine cutting wood like this. I never knew it could have that kind of power!
The only mod that I have on the MKII that would effect this is the sand in the roller. I didn't even use the guides
It works perfect, thank you Fozzy and Randy for your help.
I know with the Aspen wood I could have gone even faster with the cutting but it was the first on I tried so I did not want to push it.
The design is Randy's and he drew it from scratch, I was talking with him about it last night and he is right, it really looks great when its cut out.
Must get more wood!!!
Mark

 

cool mark....your mk-2 is more rigid and robust than the mk-1...with any machine, i would stick with the shallow depth faster cuts, working with a sfm and chiploads....also the foam carrier works great, for those that didnt install fences. as of far i just made a depron cross but plan on a wood one soon also. good work man...hey tell trish im not to blame now...i told ya to get to bed, lmao...

 

lol Randy. All we can do is try. Once Mark gets started, you can't turn him off. I think he gets this from his parents BTW, great cross design. They look even better in person. Thank you for sharing them and thank you Fozzy for the Manglerizer coding. This along with the Phlatscript make a great combo!! Unbelievably cool.

 

yea Trish, i just got a foam one as of now...i have it on my TV, and i just love it....sometimes i catch myself just staring at it, as it brings me comfort and peace, randy.