I bought a longmill couple of months again with a rotary axis and I added a magnetic dust shoe lately. Although it does a good job on flat surfaces, I don’t use the dust shoe when I am using the rotary axis. I am machining mainly Delrin which have the tendency to stick to everything thanks to static, including the wheels on the x-axis. I know that dust shields exist for the Y-axes, I was wondering if there is something I could use for the X-axis or if you have some strategies to avoid packing the wheels and the tracks with material. Thank you and Happy New Year!
The only thing can come up with is having a decoy on the other side of the rotary. Say a sheet of plexiglas that you rub with a nylon cloth from time to time. Maybe even make one side sticky so the captured particles cannot escape again.
Other than that, I would not know what to do.
Edit: Just had a weird idea pop in my head. No idea if it will work, but maybe it’s possible to have this around the x-axis on both sides of the z gantry.
Haven’t looked further into it, but if a slight reduction in x travel on both sides isn’t a problem, this might work.
@ma.dubois I’m playing with a dust shoe design to be used with the Vortex and a Mk1. If it comes to anything, I’ll post it. Aside from that, @Spamming_Eddie has the idea that I have been trying. I simply stand a piece of 1/8" mdf behind the router. I’ve not had too much of an issue with material getting onto the X axis lead screw. I am trying stop material from getting onto the Z axis linear rails. The MDF block does that reasonably well.
