Thank you so much for this video. That saved so much time. When I was thinking about saving time, I was more thinking about saving time on changing the tool by having no tool changes. With your lesson, changing to a ball nose would have only taken 2 or 3 minutes and giving me a nice smooth finish. Than I wouldn't have to do any sanding of the part to remove those ridges. I am glad you went even further and let me know that I didn't have to 3D cut the filter groove as well. When I was making the additional cuts, I would have been cutting the filter groove twice so that too saved more time. I cut my second part last night and I am about to start my first filter build. I did watch many Aspire video's and none of them covered what you did in your videos. I know you are helping to make everyone a better CNC Operator. Scott
Excellent video Bill! I too disliked tool changes and would machine out parts rougher than they really needed to be (requiring a lot of sanding). I later improved my CNC/Mach 3 setup to include a touch plate and now tool changes are a 30 second affair - just wish I had made the modification sooner! Keep up the good work!
