Suction Device; Milling Depth Adjustment; Quick Mill-Depth Adjustment; Milling - Proxxon MOF Mode D'emploi

• Watch out when gripping: The mill cutters are sharp-edged! Risk
of injury!
1. Press lock-on button 1 and loosen coupling nut 3 with the sup-
plied open-end wrench 2.
2. Loosened mill cutter 7 can now be removed and replaced. If the
mill cutter is not firmly seated, just turn the coupling nut a bit
tighter by hand.
3. Insert another mill cutter.
4. Lock shaft 6 using lock-on button 1, screw on coupling nut 3 and
tighten it using the supplied wrench 2.
6.3. Suction device (fig. 3)
Your surface miller comes equipped with a suction device. It is re-
commended to use it not just because of the desired cleanliness at
the work area:
when working with certain types of wood or other materials, harm-
ful or explosive dusts can arise. In the interest of your own health,
work only with the suction device connected and always wear a dust
protection mask in addition. Make sure you use a vacuum cleaner
that is suitable for the accruing dust.
1. Plug flexible suction hose 1 onto connection 2
2. Connect flexible suction hose 1 using rubber adapter 3 to the va-
cuum cleaner hose.
When working with the vacuum cleaner, it is recommended you use
the PROXXON AS/E suction controller device

6.4. Milling depth adjustment:

Before milling, the desired milling depth must be set. The MOF sur-
face mill has two features for this purpose: A milling depth-adjust-
ment and a quick mill-depth adjustment. This is how they work:
6.4.1. Quick mill-depth adjustment (Fig. 4):
The quick mill-depth adjustment is used for preadjusting: to quickly
approach milling depths without special requirements on preci-
sion. One uses it to move the milling height quickly into the pro-
ximity of the desired value.
1. Clamp in the desired cutter (see chapter 6.2., „Inserting and re-
placing the mill" )
2. Pull out lock-on lever 1; the spring preload presses the foot in-
to its lowest position.
3. Press milling-cutter head 2 into the guides against the spring
force to a position corresponding to the desired milling height or
put the cutter with foot 3 on the edge of a slab (4) (or similar)
and place milling-cutter head 2 with pulled lock lever 1 into both
columns to the desired height.
4. The height is fixated when locking lever 1 is folded back.
6.4.2. Milling depth adjustment (Fig. 5):
The milling depth adjustment is used for final, precise adjustment of
the milling height. Using setscrew 1, the desired height change can
be made exact by turning it back and forth.
1. Clamp in the desired cutter (see chapter 6.2., „Inserting and re-
placing the mill" )
2. Pull out locking lever 3 and place the mill cutter with foot 6 on a
stable support.
3. Carefully press the cutter against the spring force so long until
the nip of the cutter lightly touches the surface of the supporting
surface (see 1. photo, left).
4. Now turn setscrew 1 toward the bottom so long until it „sits" on
limit-stop post 4 in the milling cutter.
5. The knurl and mill cutting position is now „zeroed", so to say.
Now just let go of the mill cutter and turn the setscrew on its
thread toward the top up to the desired depth (see 2nd photo,
center). Please use scale 5 for orientation: One entire rotation of
the setscrew is equivalent to one millimeter height difference.
6. Now push foot 6 against the spring force so far in until the limit
stop on setscrew 1 „sits" (see 3rd photo, right). The mill cutter
is now set deeper than the bottom of foot 6 by the amount of the
value set in step 5. I.e., this value is also the depth of the groo-
ve that you can now mill out.
7. Fold locking lever 3 back.
The milling height has now been adjusted.

7. Milling:

General information on milling:
• When working with the surface miller, use both hands to guide
the switched-on device over the workpiece. Always work in the
counter direction during edge milling (see figure 6): The rotating
mill cutter must always run with its cutting edge against the mil-
ling movement.
• Otherwise, there is a risk that you will end up with poor milling
work, cannot cleanly guide the device, or even that it leaps out
of your hand.
• Pay attention that the milling depth is not set too deep! Always
set the milling depth to match the type of mill cutter and the ma-
terial to be milled.
• Too deep a mill setting and too great a feed rate lead to poor mil-
ling results and unnecessarily stresses the machine's mecha-
nics! It is better to carry out several milling passes. Also, read-
just the limit stop or the cutter height often.
• Always constrain or tightly clamp the workpiece!
• For practical purposes, one should use one limit stop for each
type of milling work. There are different possibilities for this, so
only the most practical are explained here:

7.1. Milling with limit stops:

7.1.1. Milling with parallel limit stops (included in the
scope of delivery, see fig. 7a, b):
As suggested by its name, you can use the parallel limit stop to fa-
bricate grooves that are parallel to the workpiece edge, as illustra-
ted in fig. 7a. To do so, the supplied parallel limit stop must be moun-
ted and adjusted (see fig. 7b regarding this):
1. As in the illustration, push both guide bars (2) into bores 3 in li-
mit stop 1 and firmly tighten both headless screws (4) with the
aid of a hollow hexagon wrench.
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