{"id":534,"date":"2015-01-18T17:42:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T15:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henningandersen.com\/?p=534"},"modified":"2015-01-18T17:47:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T15:47:48","slug":"adjusting-my-shapeoko-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henningandersen.com\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Adjusting my ShapeOko 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

When milling the Dominion turntable<\/a> I noticed that my ShapeOko 2 wasn’t square – or to be more accurate: I noticed that the cutter took about 1 mm more of the surface in one side than it did in the other side.<\/p>\n

At first I just thought that the lumber didn’t have the same thickness in both sides but when I milled the second part I noticed that the difference was consistent, so I made the conclusion, that my ShapeOko 2 wasn’t square.<\/p>\n

After some considerations I came up with the following idea: I bought a digital dial indicator<\/a> and constructed a holder so it could be mounted in the bracket for my spindle. It looks like this:<\/p>\n

\"Digital<\/a>
Digital dial indicator<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The holder consists of two parts: a square to be attached to the dial indicator and a round piece with diameter 43 mm that fits the bracket for my spindle.<\/p>\n

I then mounted the thing in my ShapeOko 2 and started to measure it’s height above the surface. Sure, there was a difference from one side to the other of about 1 mm.<\/p>\n

I then adjusted the frame by lifting or lowering each corner by loosening the screws and move the y-rails before tightening the screws again. After some fiddling (read: a lot) I finally ended up with the following measurements for the four corners.<\/p>\n

\"Left<\/a>
Left front corner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Left<\/a>
Left background corner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Right<\/a>
Right front corner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Right<\/a>
Right background corner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With a difference of only 0.04 mm I’m very pleased with the result. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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