I’m feeling tempted to buy my first Maslow and join the community but I’m an apartment dweller with neighbors and no space so I’m trying to figure out how I can make this work for me.
So far my best idea is to work with quarter sheets of plywood (2’ x 4’) and a portable frame I can load into my car so that I can cut wood on the top floor of a parking garage. I figure this location might bother the fewest people of those available to me.
I would probably make the frame out of extruded aluminum (e.g., 3030) and it would have to fold to fit into my car. If the calibration process takes a long time then I would need to be very careful about maintaining the consistency of the frame dimensions every time I use it. If the calibration process is relatively quick then this wouldn’t be an important consideration for the frame design because I could calibrate during every work session.
I’ve seen a couple of anecdotal reports about calibration speed and would like something more authoritative. What kind of durations can I expect with the latest calibration algorithm?
It seems this depends on the frame’s rigidity and how smoothly the arms rotate. The new arms rotate smoothly, and what I’ve noticed is that wooden frames are more rigid than metal ones.
I have had good luck with a fold up frame and with calibration being much faster with 1.13, maybe only five minutes. I was setting up the frame in about 20 minutes in the back yard and then calibrating in about 5 minutes. The cuts did take as much as 5 hours for me so you would want to plan in case they ran long. I have not done this very much but it did work well for me.