Hello , Another OLD MAN here. (80) Been fooling with CNC for about a year and finally bought a real machine MK2 3 months ago. not a lot of luck with the little Chinese machines, seemed like they were always messing up somehow. Mostly control module problems, Anyway have spent most of my time learning how to use it AND build an easy to use dust shoe. I also have that yellow router that's hard to find a commercial shoe for. I liked how you made your clamp out of PVC, I will be trying it once I find a source for it. You did a fantastic job and yes putting the brush bristles in the shoe is a bear. I spent 2 afternoons putting in mine while doing some unrelated carves. First time I felt confident enough to let the machine run unattended in its dedicated room. So I'll probably try your design next and appreciate you sharing this video on line. The ones I've made either hinder bit changes and zeroing abilities, I don't use a probe, zero by using a piece of sliding paper. So now that I've found you, you have a new follower, subscriber, fan, whatever the correct terminology is. Thanks again for sharing and keep up the great ideas. Don't worry about the length, if its interesting, it will keep your audience tuned in.
thank you explaining it in details, even the failures. helps us understand what things don't work. it is indeed a valuable experience that you have shared.
I just a ordered a new cnc machine and on every demo video they show how much pain it is to clean up all the dust inside the enclosure box, so one of the first thing i will do is make something like this nice simple dust Boot to avoid all these dust inside from the first day i am using this machine. Thank you so much for sharing this idea.
To save my waste board, now after zeroing the Z height on the top of the stock, I move the bit off the piece and lower the Z axis until the bit just touches the exposed tape. I use that dimension for the stock thickness. I find this much more accurate than using the nominal figure or even by measuring with calipers.
Great video this one i would like to see more details as I have a Genmitsu 4040 pro and I cant find a dust shoe to fit., any other details would be great. Cheers Mark
I would love to see more details on how do use Vcarve. I’d like to get away from the annual cost of Easel and have a computer based program with optional updates.
I have many videos using VCarve by Vectric. Do you have specific questions? I can understand not wanting to pay the annual cost of Easel. Also, there are numerous tutorials on the Vectrics webpage. You can start with a trial version and learn. You just can not carve your designs with the trial version. When you are ready you can purchase VCarve Desktop. Later, you can upgrade to Pro version by just paying the difference. The same is true if you ultimately want to upgrade the Aspire. You will need a controller to run the gcode created by VCarve. I use Openbuilds the most. It is free
Love your videos! They are always so informative and useful. One question from one PawPaw to another, where do your purchase your 1/8" bits from? I didn't see any of them in your affiliated links.
I get them from Inventables. I hate to say it but I get bits from many different places including the big box stores, Whiteside, Amana, Amazon and more.
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Hello , Another OLD MAN here. (80) Been fooling with CNC for about a year and finally bought a real machine MK2 3 months ago. not a lot of luck with the little Chinese machines, seemed like they were always messing up somehow. Mostly control module problems, Anyway have spent most of my time learning how to use it AND build an easy to use dust shoe. I also have that yellow router that's hard to find a commercial shoe for. I liked how you made your clamp out of PVC, I will be trying it once I find a source for it. You did a fantastic job and yes putting the brush bristles in the shoe is a bear. I spent 2 afternoons putting in mine while doing some unrelated carves. First time I felt confident enough to let the machine run unattended in its dedicated room. So I'll probably try your design next and appreciate you sharing this video on line. The ones I've made either hinder bit changes and zeroing abilities, I don't use a probe, zero by using a piece of sliding paper. So now that I've found you, you have a new follower, subscriber, fan, whatever the correct terminology is. Thanks again for sharing and keep up the great ideas. Don't worry about the length, if its interesting, it will keep your audience tuned in.
Thank you very much for you kind words.
thank you explaining it in details, even the failures. helps us understand what things don't work. it is indeed a valuable experience that you have shared.
I just a ordered a new cnc machine and on every demo video they show how much pain it is to clean up all the dust inside the enclosure box, so one of the first thing i will do is make something like this nice simple dust Boot to avoid all these dust inside from the first day i am using this machine. Thank you so much for sharing this idea.
You’re very welcome.
To save my waste board, now after zeroing the Z height on the top of the stock, I move the bit off the piece and lower the Z axis until the bit just touches the exposed tape. I use that dimension for the stock thickness. I find this much more accurate than using the nominal figure or even by measuring with calipers.
Excellent idea. That will work great
Excellent travail . J'ai vraiment apprécié la vidéo. Merci
You’re welcome. Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for the video very educational and beats spending money for a dust boot
Thank you very much. I appreciate you watching
absolutely I would love to see more info on how you created your dust boot
Great video this one i would like to see more details as I have a Genmitsu 4040 pro and I cant find a dust shoe to fit., any other details would be great.
Cheers Mark
I would love to see more details on how do use Vcarve. I’d like to get away from the annual cost of Easel and have a computer based program with optional updates.
I have many videos using VCarve by Vectric. Do you have specific questions? I can understand not wanting to pay the annual cost of Easel. Also, there are numerous tutorials on the Vectrics webpage. You can start with a trial version and learn. You just can not carve your designs with the trial version. When you are ready you can purchase VCarve Desktop. Later, you can upgrade to Pro version by just paying the difference. The same is true if you ultimately want to upgrade the Aspire. You will need a controller to run the gcode created by VCarve. I use Openbuilds the most. It is free
I was wondering the whole time what strip of brush you found. What a surprise to find out that you cut up an actual brush.
Lol, yep and I’ll never do that again. Way to much time
@@PawPawsWorkShop can’t blame you to be honest. I found a brush strip from eBay for my dust shoe. But just screwed it to the outside
Awesome, that works too. Thanks for watching
Love your videos! They are always so informative and useful. One question from one PawPaw to another, where do your purchase your 1/8" bits from? I didn't see any of them in your affiliated links.
I get them from Inventables. I hate to say it but I get bits from many different places including the big box stores, Whiteside, Amana, Amazon and more.
Thanks for sharing this project! That is awesome!!!
Thank you very much. I appreciate you following my channel. The VASTO is a great CNC
@@PawPawsWorkShop Thank you! Glad to know you like the FoxAlien CNC Vasto.
Outstanding! Thanks very much.
My pleasure. I’m glad that you enjoyed watching this video
Nice work
Great idea but what I noticed with mine it's not easy using the z probe block, very tight with the boot on.
I always probe without the boot on. Once done, put the boot on, start the machine, and carve
@@PawPawsWorkShop thanks
What type of dust collection do you use? Shop vac, central system?
For this CNC I am using a shop vac. I also have a central vac system for most of my tools
Nice! :)
Thanks! 😄. Glad you like it