I know there is a lot of posts re this, which ive read a few of
main question is , as the brain doesn’t work like it use to and things don’t always compute, is it a reasonably easy process to set up and get spindle and jackpot to gel or am i jumping into a black hole with no return and possibly a fried board and spindle.
IF your VFD has RS485 Communication then its not too bad to do. But I will say you will lose some performance on your LR4 in my opinion. The collet hangs out a lot farther on a spindle than it does on a trim router. You cant mount it high enough in the core to make the collet the same height.
bugger cant really afford to lose any more height as a lot of my slabs are 3 inch thick
YMMV so double check it. But that was the issue I was having and why I went back to the Kobalt. It hanging lower was making it flex a lot more. On the LR3 I was able to create a new mount and raise the spindle up higher. But that’s not really possible with how the mounts work on the LR4
you just answered what i was wondering , if its possible to adjust it in lr4 mounts
From what I can see, you cant put enough meat in the back to make it hold when the bottom of the spindle wont be in the bottom clamp.
The LR4 Ryan set the clamps into the core. I get why he did it and like it. But that’s what is stopping the bigger clamp set up like I had on the LR3.
You might be able to move the spindle out farther to make room for more clamping material behind it. But then you are still costing yourself some performace from the original design.
