MBcreates's video: Milling Wooden Gears on my CNC 6040 Router

After making plenty of nameplates for family and friends it was time to do something mechanical. I decided to start Milling some Wooden Gears on my CNC 6040 Router. ... This are the links with discount coupons to products used in this video: Heavy Duty Drill Press Vice Bench Clamp Woodworking Drilling Machine:http://bit.ly/2ohvRPj (10% OFF Coupon:Elec) Double Face Rubber Hammer:http://bit.ly/2ojjgLr (10% OFF Coupon:Elec) precision steel parallel:http://bit.ly/2BVUtXG Double Flute Spiral End Mill Set :http://bit.ly/2LAf2Zf Ball Nose End Mills:http://bit.ly/2PNjozd ... This workpiece serves no particular purpose. Milling these Wooden Gears on my CNC 6040 Router was just to get more experience with CNC milling. I wanted to test some different feeds, speeds, stepover and step down combinations. The material in this video is MDF. It's perfect for practicing your machine skills. Although the material doesn't allow you to create real chips (it’s just pressed sawdust with an adhesive resin) it’s a very forgiving material for beginner mistakes. I made a couple of CAM mistakes that caused the endmill to take a couple way to large chunks out. This would undoubtedly have caused some broken tools if I had machined plastic or metal. Now I only had some burned wood and a slightly charred endmill. Another thing I learned while Milling these Wooden Gears on my CNC 6040 Router was machine bed that is definitely to crooked to do anything with serious accuracy requirements. If you watch carefully @ 2:34 you can see that the flat surface on the tip of the gear teeth are a couple degrees off. A thick solid piece of machined metal would be a good alternative to replace the current machine bed. Until now I have been spared from all the horror that other CNC 6040 Router owners seem to have with the controller box. I didn’t experience any problems with lost steps or false home switch triggering. Let’s hope it stays that way until the controller upgrade is done :) Support the channel: http://paypal.me/mbcreates