I have been running a Lead 1515 for a couple years now. Just recently I noticed that it is leaving lines uncarved and just overall messy in each lettering packet. I am using a 60 degree V bit. Has anyone felt with this yet? Thank you!
Everything has ben checked and tightened with the Z. The problem is still happening. Any other ideas?
I have it clamped on both ends of a 5/4 x 6” board. It’s been working well for me for the good part of two years.
G Code looks OK to me. It still smacks of something loose, but your workpiece is pretty substantial, so I doubt it's that that is flexing. Is the tool sharp? Worth trying a different one?
Hold the endmill, give it a firm wiggle (upwards in particular). Ones sense of touch can detect movements (and especially relative movements between components) far finer than the eye can see. Feel if the endmill can move up and down (either inside a buster bearing in a spindle, or by lifting up the router and carriage against the leadscrew due to a problem with the nutblock or stop collars etc, or maybe it just moves fwd/back or side to side and the V-bit wanders off course leaving ridges due to loose/worn wheels, and many other possibilities). Feel for looseness and follow the feeling to find the source...
