Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] sawdust

In a message dated 9/23/04 12:55:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
capper@... writes:

> What do most people use to contain the sawdust around a CNC router
> spindle so it can be vacuumed?
>

You should have a dust collection cover/guard around the cutter. Many of the
large industrial routers us a metal or plexiglass housing mounted to the
router head with "brushes" (can be actual brush type bristles or just some soft
plastic strips) so the bit can actually go into the material being cut. This
does a pretty good job of containing the sawdust. You would have a dust
collection system (on hobby machines you could use a shop vacuum) hose connected to a
tube made into the metal/plastic housing.

Randy Abernathy
4626 Old Stilesboro Road NW
Acworth, GA 30101-4066
Phone / Fax: 770-974-5295
Cell: 678-772-4113
E-mail: cnc002@...


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