Anyone running a makita on an altmill have a dust shoe working?
Im thinking on waiting for a bit to see how the new sienci ATC looks when it comes out before buying a proper spindle, in the meantime would love to figure something out for my makita, the dust is a little crazy!
If you have a 3D printer you can print a 65mm Altmill dust collector. The file is on the Longmill / Altmill Facebook page under files.
Hope that helps
Steve
Going with my experience using a makita without dust shoe, you are either milling MDF or doing a lot of fine ball nose relief work. Beyond that, I mostly see chips flying. I do have the dust shoe but it’s collecting… chips.
There are some instances I am in need of some extraction when using a finer endmill for cutout work and I fear the dust compacting inside the cut might put too much strain on the tiny mills. (Mainly while using wallnut from my garden that keeps being a wee more moist than it should be.) I will hold a hose close to the mill by hand.
This however isn’t helping much, I guess. If I needed an adapter, I would perty much create a holder for the hose and have it hover around the mill thinking that any dust extraction is better than none. I wouldn’t go in to deep knowing a well designed system is around the corner.
Scraps and Mcguyver tape would be my dusty road.
Even to collect as many chips as possible would be fine by me at this point eddy!I do have a 3d printer and a pretty beefy 2.5” shop vac so going to give that a go for the time being!
The Sweepy from Carbide 3D works great. Easy to adjust, bottom is magnetic & easy to remove for bit changes, and has fittings for different hose sizes.