# Dust shield for the X axis?

**URL:** <https://forum.sienci.com/t/dust-shield-for-the-x-axis/15405>\
**Category:** 💨 Dust\
**Created:** [January 7, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://forum.sienci.com/t/dust-shield-for-the-x-axis/15405 "2025-01-07T14:04:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ma.dubois](https://forum.sienci.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@ma.dubois](https://forum.sienci.com/u/ma.dubois)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://forum.sienci.com/t/dust-shield-for-the-x-axis/15405/1 "2025-01-07T14:04:24Z")

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Hi everyone,

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!

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**Author:** ![Spamming\_Eddie](https://forum.sienci.com/user_avatar/forum.sienci.com/spamming_eddie/32/7296_2.png) [@Spamming\_Eddie](https://forum.sienci.com/u/Spamming_Eddie)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.sienci.com/t/dust-shield-for-the-x-axis/15405/2 "2025-01-07T17:34:56Z")

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Hi MD,

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.

 ![2Q==(12)](https://forum.sienci.com/uploads/default/original/2X/f/fe0eece57e36daaa7b2fa5479c5745ddab675afa.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![gwilki](https://forum.sienci.com/user_avatar/forum.sienci.com/gwilki/32/366_2.png) [@gwilki](https://forum.sienci.com/u/gwilki)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.sienci.com/t/dust-shield-for-the-x-axis/15405/3 "2025-01-07T18:07:22Z")

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@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.