I have just finished building my Lead 1010 and I have secured a 3/4 MDF spoil board in place. I trammed the router and now I am ready to surface the spoil board but I am stuck. I have a the stock Dewalt Router. I planned to use the OpenBuilds CONTROL Surfacing tool/wizard. I homed everything and drove each axis to it's maximum to get the Width and Length values for the wizard. I am using the 3 Flute Sharbits Surfacing Bit which is 1"(25.4mm) in diameter. I was thinking that 1mm would be a good place to start with the Skim Depth and then move further from there if necessary. Thoughts? Also I cannot figure out what I should be using for Feedrate in the wizard. Any ideas?
I surface my spoilboard with a MAX depth of cut at 0.5 mm - no point throwing spoilboard away unless you need to. I have a workbee rather than a Lead machine, but they are similar - I use 13K rpm at 1000 mm/min for a 20 mm bit. Alex.
I am trying out the GWizard Calculator but I am not 100% positive I should be using the Face Mill function, but it is saying feedrate should be 2540 at 27000 RPM which is I guess max for the Dewalt router. I will definitely go with .5mm for the depth, I just want to make sure the whole surface is done.
