Trotec Speedy 300 Review - A Twisted Engineer's Perspective

[Dan Hintz]

What makes you guys think I'm not?

[Jason Hilton]

Pics or it didn't happen! :P

[Don Corbeil]

Great read, Dan... The speedy 300 is one of the systems I'm looking at as a first time purchase, and this review offers some helpful technical specifics.
I'm looking forward to your rotary review when you get it up and running. You mentioned that the rotary design was a big factor in a previous decision process, to go ULS over epilog because of the chuck option. Given that the trotec offers both chuck and roller, I'd be curious of the differences between the ULS and trotec chuck system performance, if any.

[Dan Hintz]

I was dinking around with the review early this morning, but I won't get any real time until tonight to write more. The rotary is supposed to arrive Monday, so hopefully some time appears to play with it before the weekend.

[Keith Outten]

I'm not aware that Trotec offers a chuck on their rotary attachment. I have one and I got both the cones and the rollers but no chuck was available at the time.
This link shows a table of options.

http://www.troteclaser.com/en-US-US/...ttachment.aspx

[Mike Null]

I agree with Keith, there is no chuck.

[Don Corbeil]

I agree with Keith, there is no chuck.

Oh, I see.. I was confusing a chuck with a cone.

[Mike Null]

Don

I think Keith and I are referring to a chuck along the line of something you'd fit to a lathe and would be adjustable.

[Keith Outten]

A small drill chuck would be a great option on the drive side of the Trotec rotary. It would give you a means of adapting to a wide variety of jobs. For the record I searched every resource on the Internet for a chuck or an adapter that would fit the Trotec rotary attachment and didn't find anything that would work.

[Dan Hintz]

A small drill chuck would be a great option on the drive side of the Trotec rotary. It would give you a means of adapting to a wide variety of jobs. For the record I searched every resource on the Internet for a chuck or an adapter that would fit the Trotec rotary attachment and didn't find anything that would work.

My intent is to retrofit a light chuck onto my rotary... I have one in mind already, so you can expect a write-up on it.

[Dan Hintz]

Rotary came in today... what a freakin' beast! It weighs over 30 pounds! Maybe my memory has gone soft, but I do not remember my ULS rotary weighing nearly that (if anyone out there has a ULS rotary, I'd appreciate a weight for the review).

[Tony Lenkic]

ULS rotary weights just under 9 lbs,

[David Somers]

30lbs? Really? Why? Vibration damping? Avoiding the need for an attachment to the table? A secret agreement with the Shipping Company who charges by weight?

Seriously though....This must be a large unit for a machine the size of the 300? What diameter and length object can it handle? I don't think the tailstock on my wood lathe weighs that much! Yow!

I hope you are rigging a ceiling mounted motorized gantry hoist to allow you to move this sucker in and out of the machine without herniating disks every time?

<grin> Dave

[Dan Hintz]

My apologies to everyone for not posting a new version (the multiple PMs and thread posts aren't being ignored, I assure you). I have been slammed at work putting together a few presentations, so what "free" time I have lately gets spent on research PowerPoint slides :-/

While I have not uploaded a new version yet, my copy has been updated to include text/pics on the shipping crate, and I'm spending a lot of frustrating time getting pictures and captions situated (it used to be so easy in Word to add a caption while still allowing for resizing/moving the pic... now it has to all be included in a text box, with a slew of tedious steps each time, and resizing after the fact is nigh impossible). A section was added for the focus tool, too.

I hope you guys will like what I have to add... and watch this space for an update on when a new version has been uploaded.

Thanks!

[Don Corbeil]

Dan,

No apologies necessary
We know you have a business to run, on top of all your contributions here on the forum.
Looking forward to your updates, whenever you have them ready.