Add-ons & Modifications
🌀 Rotary Axis Adding a 4th axis to your setup and rotary axis carving! 🔥 Laser Hot conversations and burning questions about using Lasers on CNC routers. 🧰 CNC Setup Table, wasteboard, clamps, enclosure, screens, gamepad, anything that you’ve done to make your daily CNCing better tuned for your own needs. 📛 Others What other mods are you making? Limit switches, spindle & VFD, laser cross-hair, the world is your oyster! 💨 Dust How are YOU handling dust? Share dust collection systems, favourite respirators, shop vac mods, dust shields, and more.
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| About the Add-ons & Modifications category |
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2 | 1449 | December 23, 2021 |
| One Axis at a time troubleshooting |
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6 | 30 | January 12, 2026 |
| Closed Loop Stepper Motors speeds |
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1 | 48 | January 9, 2026 |
| 1/4" aluminum plate as table surface for AltMill 2x4 |
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24 | 415 | January 9, 2026 |
| Controlling gSender with a tablet |
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24 | 1427 | January 9, 2026 |
| Lasertree laser modules |
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0 | 29 | January 8, 2026 |
| Vortex Rotational issues |
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14 | 91 | January 6, 2026 |
| Dust collection (yes, again...) |
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15 | 277 | January 1, 2026 |
| Table for Altmill |
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5 | 119 | December 30, 2025 |
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What are your plans for a table?
Hi, guys. I’m bound and determined to get some discussion going here, so here’s another topic that’s been weighing on my mind. What do you intend to mount your new LongMill to? Like most of us, I assume, I have a small… |
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281 | 45718 | December 26, 2025 |
| Laser on/off control in gSender reversed |
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7 | 42 | December 15, 2025 |
| Water Cooled Spindle - flood relay M8 M9 |
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6 | 113 | December 14, 2025 |
| Ring LED Brightness |
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3 | 81 | December 13, 2025 |
| Installing a square spindle on the Alt Mill |
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0 | 73 | December 7, 2025 |
| UPGRADE ALTMILL 2X4 in 4x4 |
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5 | 132 | December 2, 2025 |
| Automatic Z-Probe Touch Plate Sensor |
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3 | 81 | November 25, 2025 |
| Dust boot options |
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7 | 302 | November 17, 2025 |
| T-tracks for AltMill 4x2 |
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2 | 137 | November 17, 2025 |
| Yet another 3rd party Spindle Question |
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1 | 66 | November 14, 2025 |
| Altmill with laser |
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3 | 142 | November 7, 2025 |
| Laser requirements |
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30 | 304 | October 31, 2025 |
| Nut for the Inductive Limit sensor |
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3 | 70 | October 29, 2025 |
| LED strip odd behavior Altmill/SLB-EXT - RING works, RAIL is white |
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19 | 266 | October 28, 2025 |
| AltMill 4x2 GOAT-style baseboard - VCarve & g-code files |
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15 | 436 | October 25, 2025 |
| Post your dust collection pics! |
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51 | 676 | October 21, 2025 |
| Laser beam not light up |
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3 | 58 | October 20, 2025 |
| Rail light source |
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15 | 166 | October 17, 2025 |
| Laser options for AltMill |
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1 | 267 | October 9, 2025 |
| Vortex: carving off-center pieces |
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2 | 42 | October 6, 2025 |
| I need help setting up 110v spindle |
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3 | 2795 | October 3, 2025 |