FoxAlien Vasto - 20mm Cutting Depth Testing

[@JohnColgan.]

Seriously impressive

[@TeraVoltLabs]

Nice results! Would love to see it milling and facing aluminum, bronze/brass, and maybe mild steel

[@PhxSt0rmz]

They rate it for Aluminum and I have done some 2mm cuts in Aluminum ( sphere..square..circles ) but yet to do any straight depth runs yet. Mostly because its easier to clean up plastic, than metal shavings!

[@Basement_CNC]

would be really intereating what that thing could do with one of those 1,5kw or 2.2kw china vfd spindels 🤷‍♂️

[@PhxSt0rmz]

I have a 1.5KW spindle on it nowadays and its far more "stable" with the RPMs, hardly hear them dip. The dewalt router massively dips, then way overshoots, and balances out which causes a ton of issues. Night and day difference. I also reinforced the table since this video which made it so the bed isn't flexing during the cut. Been super low-key trying to find what i did with the footage months ago as I dont want to rip up another block of plastic haha. Not too long ago i did a bit of steel

[@neilcullimore5798]

Don't know how you Z zeroed but would have thought that, because the HDPE was not clamped at the front , the HDPE is warped upwards at this end. The depth of cut you measure will be inaccurate due to this. Just saying.

[@PhxSt0rmz]

Accuracy isnt the point here. If Accuracy was the point, id mill the top first. 20mm is a rounded number. Reality depth of cut was 22mm measured from top surface to bottom of cut, which also created chips that were 22mm length. This is a "close enough" method to get an idea of how a cutter performs. As now when I do HDPE cutting ( properly bolted down ) i do full depth up to 20mm, with 80% stepover at 1500mm/min due to the above video/test showing it was doable with that cutter. Except now days, I have almost double the spindle power, more rigid setup, etc

[@JarppaGuru]

not matter if he cut 19-21mm we not have that hurry