Chris Puttick
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A day for CNC questions, anyone would think I'd committed to some ambitious projects with a hard deadline (6th birthday party levels of hard)
So I have a dust shoe attachment for the spinde - but how do I attach a pipe to it that doesn't interfere in the movement of the bit, particularly X/Y movement? Similarly what strategies are available for extracting the smoke generated by the laser - just put a large extractor inlet above the CNC? In the case of the laser I don't have space to put one of those little smoke filter vacs near the CNC, it's going to need pipes, at which point using existing extraction systems seems sensible. So I guess it all comes back to the right sort of pipe/routing.
All input welcome.
So I have a dust shoe attachment for the spinde - but how do I attach a pipe to it that doesn't interfere in the movement of the bit, particularly X/Y movement? Similarly what strategies are available for extracting the smoke generated by the laser - just put a large extractor inlet above the CNC? In the case of the laser I don't have space to put one of those little smoke filter vacs near the CNC, it's going to need pipes, at which point using existing extraction systems seems sensible. So I guess it all comes back to the right sort of pipe/routing.
All input welcome.