This past weekend I finished up an extension mount to move my Masso screen away from the machine.
As many of us have found, once you add an 80mm spindle, dust collector, and other accessories, there just isn’t enough clearance between the Masso screen and the spindle. Without an extension, it’s a matter of time before something crashes and breaks something.
I like the simplicity of the Masso extension mount provided by Onefinity, and wanted to keep it as part of the solution.
I posted this item up on my Etsy store. $40 CAD / ~29USD. Free shipping to Canada and US.
I have a few others items in the works. “Favorite” my Etsy shop to stay in the loop when these are released.
I have not checked the fitment on the Pro Series machines.
If someone has any insight on whether this looks like it would fit the Pro machines, feel free to chime in.
If someone with a Pro series machine is in my area (Ottawa), feel free to send me a PM. I would love to do a test fit to help others know.
I went to your Etsy shop and added the extension mount to my cart when I went to the cart it explicitly said this item does not ship to the US. So, something is wrong.
Thanks for letting me know Robert! I think I sorted it out, and can now ship to the US.
Just sent a PM with a discount code to say thank you!
..still figuring things out on my new Etsy store.
Made some refinements to the workflow today.
Used the Onefinity to make a fixture plate to hold these down a little better. At first, I was screwing these into the spoilboard, but with repeated use the wood screws wouldn’t bite down quite as hard.
Made a finishing fixture to hold these suckers when I put the “brushed finish” on them. At first I was just holding them up to the sander, and it was a pain.
Pro tip - If you didn’t know about the WD-40 / Red Scotch-Brite trick, you are missing out. It is a fantastic way to put a decent finish on aluminum parts.
The little bit of time saved on finishing gave me time to get things a bit more sorted on the assembly side. New smaller boxes arrived today. Doesn’t save anything on shipping, but they make life a bit easier to move around, and level up the professionalism a bit.
Orders have been all over the US and Canada. Coincidentally, an order came in just a few miles from my house. So close I could (but didn’t) have ridden my bike there. Needless to say, I dropped it off in person.
The bottle neck at this point is machining time. I’m sure I can turn up the throttle on the machine, but at the risk of breaking bits. These aluminum cutting bits aren’t cheap either. I’ll debate that all night with myself.
For the briefest of moments, I was all caught up on outstanding orders for these. I had started making extra units for stock. Planned on taking a break from it on Friday.
Fate had a different plan for me. Turns out the nice guy I had hand-delivered one unit to in my city made a much-appreciated post about it on the Onefinity Facebook page. My surplus stock of about 10 units were quickly used up and sold. Friday morning started with the second trip across town for more 6061. I was cutting more units late into the evening.
I’ve been pondering the best method to drill the 6 holes. Currently I’m predrilling them with an 1/8" drill, then using a boring cycle to open the holes up to final size. I don’t know if I can just skip the pre-drill altogether?, at the risk of breaking the 1/8" end mill that I use to bore the holes out.
My first program used drill-bits at the final size to drill the holes, and to my surprise that is a terrible way to drill a hole with a CNC router.
I was very pleased to see an order come in from a YouTube celebrity!
It seems regardless of the diameter of the drill, the spindle struggles. Maybe my feeds and speeds aren’t right, but it seems like the RPM can’t get low enough, and when I start going low, the spindle bogs down. Even with the 220V water cooled, 4-pole spindle.
1/4", and 7/32".
I am using a peck cycle, 0.05 peck with 0.025 retract (I think).
It looked like it would benefit from a full retract after about 0.25" depth. I havent tried that in the program yet.
I tried 5000rpm, but the spindle would bog. Before switching to a boring cycle, I was at 6000, and still didnt run through it nice enough.
Also switched to stubby “jobber” twist drill. It was nice because the drill would not skate around like a normal length drill. But chip clearing didn’t improve.
Boring cycle is nice, as I can make the hole whatever size I want, and no tool change required between hole sizes.
Sorry to be of no help here, my background is industrial machine shop, I only cut wood with my 1F, but I would have thought with the 4 pole spindle and aluminum it would not be to tough, I do think the ,050 peck depth is too much you might try .005 or so and see how it works, the 3 flute drill looks good as well
Good luck
Pat
I got my unit today and installed it without any trouble but i was unable to go to the website o the card as the mail came back as undeliverable.It said there is no such website so here is my review. you did a great job on this item bravo. worth every penny. Ok so now tell me are you sure the name of your website is long enough? I mean Stingraydesignandmanufacturing.com sheesh! lol
What spindle do you have? I got the redline 220v and its lowest rpm is 8000, I was making mine last night running 8000 at 16ipm drilling .201 dia. carbide drill thru 1/4" 6061 alum. 2 pecks of .150 each.
I’m using the Pwncnc 2.2 KW, 220V. It will spin at 4000, but with little to no power.
I was messing around with it this morning, and I think I got it dialed in. There’s always room for improvement, but this is much better my starting methods.
I drill two holes, 0.219 and 0.266. The smaller hole, I used to predrill 1/8", then use a boring cycle. Now I skip the predrill and go straight to boring cycle.
The larger hole I still predrill with 1/8".
First peck is 0.075". Then pecks reduce is depth by 0.025" until pecks are 0.035". Then is pecks at 0.035" until its through the material. At 0.325", it does a full retract to evacuate chips. This full retract has reduced the growling I have been getting as it approaches the final depth. All at 10ipm, 7000.
Chips are nice and small, and don’t get bound up on the drill like before.
I’ve never worked so hard to dial in a hole. I’m a rookie with the hole stuff though.
Interesting that your settings are so much different. I suspect they are better than mine due to my inexperience.
