I am wondering how fast people are cutting and rapiding with there Joe machines.
I have considered building Joes machine with acme 1/2-10 5 start which would give me a theoretical rapid or max speed of 400ipm (screw is 800rpm) just wondering what others are doing. I plan to cut mostly signage at about .04" deep so I was thinking I could probablly cut at 200-300ipm with (hitachi 2 1/4hp router). I have a jgro that rapids at 75ipm and I can cut with a 3/4hp router and vbit at 75ipm. Can Joes rapid at 400ipm? I intened to put a dado in the gantry walls and glue in a piece of 1/2MDF between the inner and outer walls to reduce the flex in the gantry walls. Does anyone have any ideas about mods (if needed) to get Joes machine to rapid at 400ipm?
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