Re: Question on backlash and if it's possible to compensate
While backlash compensation may seem to be the magic bullet, it's one flaw is that it assums that the position of the cutter does not change while it is being applied, but in practice with big cutters the cutter itself will push the work around so in addition to the points about actual cutter size, there is no gaurantee that backlash compensation will actually help, and since you see to get good results by changing the tool size I would suspect that backlash is you real problem.
Lester Caine - G8HFL
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