First cuts on Elite Journeyman

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Okay, so I’ve been HAMMERING away for two weeks getting this all setup, building a table top, building the rolling base on casters, putting the machine together, squaring, co-planer checks, external 2hp dust collector. Finally, got into cutting the wasteboard. Decided to go with the pipe fence and wedges/cams to start, cut my grid pattern, then hole pattern. Thought I had the hole size figured out, was just a hair tighter than I’d like it to be, original dia 1.040", decided I try open them up to 1.041". Now they are sloppy and I have to cut a fresh wasteboard, start over tomorrow.

I thought I was being a little crazy going for that, but they seem way bigger than they should have been. Oblong and out of round now, is that kind of repeatability and precision beyond a onefinity? Or should I be checking for what is loose? Or did I perhaps change the entire pattern slightly when I scaled all the holes up .001" in carveco?

Don’t mind the Ryobi planer…

Pics for attention.
Thanks,
Jeff

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I don’t know carveco but if you offset a circle vector by .001 in Vcarve your diameter would increase by .002

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It was the diameter of the circle that I increased so it should have only been .001, however in doing so I answered my own question. When I transformed them all as a group it maintained the spacing between edges, not center points. So by the time it got to the far edge it was cutting ovals. :frowning:

The hard lessons are the best teachers, guess I’m cutting a new wasteboard in the morning!

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