Anchor points like Gordix

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I’m concerned with the large anchor points…is this so you can cut bigger than 4x8?

I’m wondering if m4.1 can’t do something like the Gordix anchor points? They essentially cantilever a metal anchor point off the corners of the waste board.

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Robert Vogt wrote:

I’m concerned with the large anchor points…is this so you can cut bigger than 4x8?

no, it is a mechanical limitation of the maslow. the 4 arms of the maslow are
limited in how close to vertical/horizontal they can go (no closer than 20
degrees to the cardinal direction, or 40-160 degrees between adjacent arms and
40-130 degrees between opposite arms)

to be able to cover an entire 4x8 sheet the anchors need to be significantly
further out.

my frame calculator at http://lang.hm/maslow/maslow4_frame.html lets you plan
your frame, the bulges from the side are due to the adjacent belt angles, and
the rounded corners are due to the opposite belt angles. I even let you tweak
the values of the allowed angles to see what would happen.

I’m wondering if m4.1 can’t do something like the Gordix anchor points? They
essentially cantilever a metal anchor point off the corners of the waste
board.

you could, but you have two things

  1. your cutting area may be smaller than you think
  2. you need to have the waste board anchord to something or the maslow will flex
    the waste board (pulling the corners up). A larger wasteboard

it wouldn’t even have to be metal, you can make 3d printed anchors that are
solid enough.

with a 2440x1220 anchor, you get ~1600x400 of good cutting with the maslow
1800x1220 (~6’ long) you get ~1000x600 of good cutting area

a different variation of the maslow that didn’t have posts in all 4 directions
would be much better (2000x400 and 1400x600 for the two examples above)

David Lang

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If this is true, why have I seen people setting up their Maslow 4’s on a standard Maslow 2 upright frame

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Robert Vogt wrote:

If this is true, why have I seen people setting up their Maslow 4’s on a
standard Maslow 2 upright frame

  1. the maslow upright frame has the anchors well out from the work area

  2. you haven’t seem them use an exact maslow2 frame, you’ve seen angled frames
    that have 4 anchors, not 2 like the earlier maslows had

you are asking about bringing the anchors in much closer than any maslow has
done. I have created and used frames that raise the anchors to the belts are
closer to level, but a 30" square frame gives me about 14" square usable cutting
area due to the arm motion limits.

Bar is working on a new, preassembled, smaller maslow, I haven’t seen any images
of it yet, but I’m hoping that he is able to improve the arm movement angles
from the maslow 4 to allow it to be used with smaller frames

David Lang

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I think one think I’m waiting to see is the real world behaviour of Gordix when actual users get it.

There is a disclaimer in the small print that accuracy goes down towards the corners - it remains to be seen what magnitude that is (amongst other things).

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