I have the exact same results with my 1200 LOM. I believe it has do with the router not being exactly perpendicular to the rotating stock. The side that has the ridge requires to be shimmed up. By that, I mean placing shim stock between the router and the router sled. I will be working on this on the upcoming weekend. When I mill to round a stock, I slowly move the router and quickly rotate the stock with the rotation coming from under the router bit and have the router slightly off center. This results in a spiral all the way down the stock. BTW, I have found a large tablet at Staples with a square grid pattern (close but not exactly 1"x1") that I use for drawing out the object to be milled. I use the bit template downloaded from this site to trace out the pattern. Not as good as having the Plexiglas, but is works. Sincerely, Don W.
On Monday, February 13, 2017 at 9:46:48 PM UTC-6, Jim Riggen wrote: > I tried my first effort tonight. I made a round piece of wood! One problem > though. I used a #2704 bit hoping to get a smooth cylinder. Alas, I did > not. I think the router and wood are not perpendicular. The error is quite > small. How do I correct this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
