Todays Project - What did you do today?

[Tony Wells]

HP, they do have a sort of limiter for that, but it's set high enough to allow for pretty heavy cutting forces, so wouldn't have prevented the accident. Some (older ones mainly) have a load meter that is based on the current draw of the spindle motor, but nothing for the feed motors themselves, directly. Different controls have different features. In program, they can be shut down by overload caused by dull tooling, but in manual mode, whether by dial or joystick, nothing protects you from running over stuff except the travel limit switches.

BTW, I am working on converting one of my steadies to rollers.....hot topic for some who don't like them, but I prefer them.

Nice work, Greg. A good mortiser is a real labor saver.