Aluminium Extrusion CNC Router Build

[joshendy]

Lastly my dust shoe. I never imagined the amount of swarf and dust that would be ejected during cutting. It still amazes me everytime I do a cut on the CNC, I don't think I'll ever get all the HDPE chips out of my work shed!

So a dust shoe was the top priority. I saw the Kent CNC dust shoe and was quite impressed with the whole shoe and skirt design and how they easy connect/disconnect with magnets.

The dust shoe is made out of 10mm acrylic and I'm using small 5x3mm rare earth magnets. Six magnets in the shoe and six in each skirt which attaches to the dust shoe.

Very impressed with the end result. I wasted a fair bit of acrylic on failed attempts, I had to do double sided machining for the skirt, one side needed pockets for the magnets, the other side an 8mm slot for the flexible brush strip to press in to.

But I got it done and here is a quick video and as always the pictures. (Sorry the pics aren't in order, can't figure out how to order them correctly)

Plus theres an extra little video of my CNC I put in there. I've got myself a new HD camera so I'll be sure to put up some new higher resolution videos of the CNC doing some proper cuts soon.

[Karl]

Recommendations/suggestions please for UK suppliers of flexible brush strip in various lengths and various brush heights. Intention is to copy the idea of having different dust extraction shoes for different jobs.

Thanks

Karl