Add-ons & Modifications
🔥 Laser Hot conversations and burning questions about using Lasers on CNC routers. 📛 Others What other mods are you making? Limit switches, spindle & VFD, laser cross-hair, the world is your oyster! 🌀 Rotary Axis Adding a 4th axis to your setup and rotary axis carving! 💨 Dust How are YOU handling dust? Share dust collection systems, favourite respirators, shop vac mods, dust shields, and more. 🧰 CNC Setup Table, wasteboard, clamps, enclosure, screens, gamepad, anything that you’ve done to make your daily CNCing better tuned for your own needs.
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| About the Add-ons & Modifications category |
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2 | 1417 | December 23, 2021 |
| I want to add a 20W (or higher) laser to my LongMill - which one? |
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38 | 1381 | March 6, 2025 |
| Possible new laser offering? |
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4 | 126 | March 5, 2025 |
| Any plans for offering more powerful laser? |
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9 | 439 | March 5, 2025 |
| Altmill 1/2" collet |
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20 | 325 | March 2, 2025 |
| Dust collection options |
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37 | 410 | March 1, 2025 |
| AltMill Motor Covers |
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4 | 91 | March 1, 2025 |
| I fabricated my own LED ring for the 1.5kw spindle |
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5 | 147 | February 26, 2025 |
| Custom cover for Longmill MK2 30x48 |
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2 | 879 | February 21, 2025 |
| Fixed the z-axis limit switch issue |
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1 | 136 | February 15, 2025 |
| Spindle and rotary axis additions |
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66 | 1963 | February 12, 2025 |
| My laser wont burn anything now |
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6 | 476 | February 12, 2025 |
| Actual 4th axis, not rotary |
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9 | 207 | February 10, 2025 |
| 3D printable accessories |
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3 | 88 | February 7, 2025 |
| RapidChange ATC |
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25 | 811 | February 4, 2025 |
| Sanding after burning |
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4 | 63 | February 5, 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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280 | 42961 | February 4, 2025 |
| Game Controller Jogging Errors |
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3 | 54 | January 31, 2025 |
| What can the 7w laser do |
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13 | 1769 | January 23, 2025 |
| Building AutoDustBoot for AltMill |
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21 | 387 | January 19, 2025 |
| 4-axis programs |
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1 | 72 | January 16, 2025 |
| Speed and feed request |
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3 | 50 | January 16, 2025 |
| Laserbeam Power |
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10 | 77 | January 11, 2025 |
| Altmill z- brake? |
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4 | 53 | January 10, 2025 |
| Rotary Surfacing XZ Frozen |
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6 | 34 | January 9, 2025 |
| Rotary vortex clearance |
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2 | 41 | January 7, 2025 |
| Dust shield for the X axis? |
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2 | 38 | January 7, 2025 |
| Vortex chatter on thin/long pieces |
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9 | 49 | January 6, 2025 |
| Ability to just turn Vortex rotary for finish sanding |
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1 | 47 | January 5, 2025 |
| Isolated ADC Torch hight controller |
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0 | 29 | December 26, 2024 |