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 to a plasma cutter and thick steel plate.
OK, Marv and you other creative guys. How are we going to make one of these things that adjust the follower shoe in the same amount in the opposite direction as the tool moves in? And remember it has to move only after the cut starts so it won't just crash into the end of the workpiece and mess up everything. OK, you can add tape "Pin It")
Nice approach to a follower rest, especially if you have access (for a reasonable price) to a plasma cutter and thick steel plate.
OK, Marv and you other creative guys. How are we going to make one of these things that adjust the follower shoe in the same amount in the opposite direction as the tool moves in? And remember it has to move only after the cut starts so it won't just crash into the end of the workpiece and mess up everything. OK, you can add tapers to soften the blow. But that's not very elegant.
There has to be a lever or something else to reverse the travel direction and maybe some way to tweak the ratio a bit. And the lever needs to be pretty robust so it won't cause chatter or throw off the accuracy of the cut.
And then there is the "box cutter" approach. Something I've had zero experience with so far but may have to learn sometime in the future. I got one with a bunch of screw machine tooling I bought a while back.
Ed Weldon
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