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Wood router duty cycle?
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On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:32:16 -0500, Ignoramus12820 wrote: I am considering to use a Bosch Colt wood "palm router" (or even a bigger wood router) as a high speed spindle for milling small detail on my CNC mill. Kind of like this: http://www.cnccookbook.com/img/Other...Manifold_1.jpg What kind of coolant do you suppose they use for birch plywood? silly grinne When I talked about it somewhere, somebody said that it cannot survive this for long due to poor cooling, and that it will never have the duty cycle as needed on a CNC machine. Googled "bosch colt cnc" for 1.4million hits. For me, say, 4 minutes on/6 minutes off would probably work out okay, as the speed of the cutter enables me to complete typical milling jobs quickly. But still, the duty cycle question is important. So: what do you think is the duty cycle on these and how much could they take before they overheat? One nice thing about working wood with powah tools is that you clean it up immediately. Your dust collector is sucking in hundreds of CFM right next to the router, so it is getting a hefty, cooling breeze by it at all times. I understand that the Colt is one of the most used routers on CNC tables. I should have more info in a couple weeks after my new book comes. In the interim, ask Bosch themselves. (googlit) -- We're all here because we're not all there. |
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Wood router duty cycle?
Larry Jaques wrote: RCM only On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:32:16 -0500, Ignoramus12820 wrote: I am considering to use a Bosch Colt wood "palm router" (or even a bigger wood router) as a high speed spindle for milling small detail on my CNC mill. Kind of like this: http://www.cnccookbook.com/img/Other...Manifold_1.jpg What kind of coolant do you suppose they use for birch plywood? silly grinne I suspect an 80/20 nitrogen/oxygen blend or thereabouts... |
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Wood router duty cycle?
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:20:16 -0500, "Pete C."
wrote: Larry Jaques wrote: RCM only On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:32:16 -0500, Ignoramus12820 wrote: I am considering to use a Bosch Colt wood "palm router" (or even a bigger wood router) as a high speed spindle for milling small detail on my CNC mill. Kind of like this: http://www.cnccookbook.com/img/Other...Manifold_1.jpg What kind of coolant do you suppose they use for birch plywood? silly grinne I suspect an 80/20 nitrogen/oxygen blend or thereabouts... @90psi. Got it. -- We're all here because we're not all there. |
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