FINALLY getting back on this rebuild. Ended up finding the root of the cause. Aparently I’m tightening the spindle like it has to take a ride to the moon lol. Found a huge crack in my smaller machine and after that I went and looked closer at the full sheet core and sure enough it was cracked in the same place. When @vicious1 says to go easy he means it lol.
With the new core installed on the smaller LR3 now it’s time to mill out the acrylic needed to go behind @DougJoseph fancy front strut. And that is in the works right now…
1/8” Single Flute Bit
Trochoidal milling at 25mm/s and 20% stepover. Will post more pics when it’s done. Usually I would run air blowing as well but didn’t get it put on the new core yet and didn’t want to wait any longer. Ready to get the full sheet back in action lol