@Christian Thanks for the photos. I never made milling on alu, so I was quite skeptic about this possibility for the Steppi. I'm using gsimple as ...

Ok, no answers in the last 50 minutes, so I decided to go by myself 😆 Step 1 - 2mm spot I have created a 2mm deep "spot" for successive dr...

Keep us posted on the deep pockets. I forgot to update you about deep pocketing with a single flute endmill! Here we are. I have to say that I'...

I'm still searching for a cheap alternative to manual methods too. Seems that the "beepers" (the ones edmitting a sound when touching a surface) are ...

Taking apart problems related to the use of "complex" software to produce complex parts, I think the biggest problem is the Z-axis. To mill aluminum d...

Thumbs up! Amazing results :woohoo:

Still waiting for Rory... it would be fantastic if he could post here the torque curve of the HF500/350... 🙁 Anyway, should be something like th...

The not-paralell aluminum panels are the problem! It can be, unfortunately I have not the technical means to check their parallelism. Yesterda...

I have executed the procedure of loosing and tightening screws described in the "Getting started" manual (par. 2.5). No results, again that "grr... g...

as this spindle uses a brushless motor. mmmmh... I don't know... description states that the HF350/500 motor is asynchronous, while brushless motors...

Anyway, this discussion become interesting. Here the right article of Wikipedia for three phase asynchronous motor: Induction motor Unfortunatel...

hi, watch in wikipedia "torque/turning moment" of an electrical motor (i used the german section) there u will find the following: P = 2 Pi n M ...

Machining with a 2 flute - and then with a 1 flute - with the same parameters - means you are machining at "feed per tooth rate A" (2 flute) and "feed...

Reason found! B) White strips comes out 'cause of the not perfect perpendicularity of endmill's vertical axis AND the particular geometry of the to...