ADA Kit Setup with EGX-400/600 [1 of 3]

This video covers ADA configuration for EGX-400/600 series engravers. For more see: http://www.able-engravers.com/roland-...

This chapter covers Braille Dot Cutter and Character Cutter Configuration.

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This video covers ADA configuration for EGX-400/600 series engravers. This chapter covers Braille Dot Cutter and Character Cutter Configuration.

To set up the ADA workflow, we'll need the following items which are part of our ADA bundle - our ADA substrate and tactile material, EngraveLab software, a horsehair brush for cleaning off the engraved material, a ruler, our spindle cover offset hardware, the Braille Dot Cutter, the Character Cutter, hex wrench, our two spanner wrenches, a Phillips screwdriver, the nosecone, eleven sixty-fourths solid collet and our auto raster pin inserter.

To get started, first thing we wanna do is go ahead and power on the engraver.

Once we power on the machine, on the control panel we wanna go ahead and press the Enter key to initialize the engraver.

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Once the engraver is initialized, the display will be at the default menu which shows your XYZ position and spindle speed.

Next we want to go ahead and press the Menu key until we see the Home View Z0 Z1 Z2 menu.

Wanna make sure Home is selected and press the Enter key. This will move the machine to the XY Origin position.

Now we're ready to install and zero out the Character and Braille Dot Cutters.

We will start with the nosecone.

On the EGX Pro Series, the nosecone does not include a numbered scale, whereas the 350 does. So you want to mark it to indicate the zero position. In this case, we've marked it with the [indistinct] tool. Each little tick mark is representative of one thousandths (sic) of an inch.

Next, we'll open up the spindle cover and we'll go ahead and take our eleven sixty-fourths solid collet and we'll install the collet to the bottom of the spindle assembly. For this, you're using a reverse thread, turning it counterclockwise.

You wanna go ahead and hand-tighten it and once you've hand-tightened it, you want to use the supplied spanner wrenches to go ahead and secure the collet in place.

You wanna go ahead and place your seventeen-millimeter tool on first and then take your ten-millimeter and you're going to pull opposite of each other to tighten them down.

At this point, we'll take our nosecone and we'll thread it on to the spindle unit.

You wanna go ahead and thread it all the way up until it stops completely.

Now, once it stops, you wanna go ahead and back it off to the closest zero position. You want to back it off to the first zero position.

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And then you want to back it off two additional full turns. This sets our zero position for our nosecone.

Now we're going to dial the nosecone for our Character Cutter and Braille Dot Cutter.

So we're going to dial the nosecone thirty-three to thirty-four clicks for our Character Cutter.

So if you give it one full turn, that's twenty-five, and then you can count the additional clicks until you get to thirty-three or thirty-four. I recommend going thirty-three or thirty-four, which allows you to cut through the glue layer of your tactile material.

We'll now go ahead and get our Character Cutter.

We'll load it from the top of the spindle. This is a top load tool.

We'll thread the brass knob; again this is a reverse thread.

And you wanna hand-tighten it. As tight as possible.

Then [indistinct] wanna go ahead and loosen the hex screw that holds the tool in place. And, if you notice, it's sticking out of the bottom. You can move it up and down.

You'll then take a solid piece of plastic or a piece of metal and you want to go ahead and place it on the tool and push it up until it's flush with the bottom of the nosecone.

Once it's flush, we'll go ahead and tighten down the hex screw on the brass cutter knob.

Position. Once this is done, we can go ahead and remove the Character Cutter and set it aside.

Next, we'll adjust the nosecone seven to eight more clicks, counterclockwise. This allows us to set our depth to .041 to .042 inches. This is the depth that we want to drill our Braille dots.

At this point, we'll go ahead and top load our Braille Dot Cutter.

We'll go ahead and again tighten it down.

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If you would like more information on
the EGX-400/600 please see our product page:

http://www.able-engravers.com/roland-...

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