Nicely done. I can't tell you how many times I've walked past those magnetic connectors and said to myself "some day" ... They are not cheap. I started kicking myself as soon as I read the title of your video, and am kicking myself harder now that I see how nice yours came out. Thanks for this idea. I was in my shop all day with mask and goggles today, and I feel like I was swimming in dust. This is just what the doctor ordered!! Thanks for posting!!
Thanks for watching! I thought the same thing and just decided to do it. If/when you make your own, make them user friendly- put a magnet on each edge so you don’t have to think when you are lining them up! ( if that makes sense)
Looks really awesome! You must have saved a boat load of $ making them yourself. Thanks for sharing this great idea. I have the same challenges for my whole shop and have been pondering how to approach this disgusting dusty problem as the shop is in the basement. Now to plan and build. I also love the way you called for Mom to help you get up, what would we do without Mom.😂 Andrew
Funny you just made this video. I purchased a starter kit of Izzy's version that he sold to Mag-Tools. It's great, but pretty expensive to hook up even a few tools. So I've been searching through YT for DIY solutions. Bam! Here you are. LOL Great job. However, I would need a SVG or DXF format, since my CNC is a DIY as well. I use Fusion 360 for all of my machining.
It is funny how that works , isn’t it! I will update the file to have the SVG so it can be imported and used by many of the cad/cam programs. You built your own CNC?
That would be awesome! Just let me know through this comment when you have it ready. And, yes, I built my own. I bought a parts list from a young, Swedish guy on YT who built a DIY one that looked quite sturdy. I took his version and scaled it up to a 32"x32" and put a 2.2kw water-cooled spindle on it. He used Arduino to control, but I went with a Blackbox controller for ease and stability. The CNC works great, but has trouble doing aluminum since the gantry is a little weak in the Y axis. I thought about rebuilding it, but I really only do wood anyhow.@@SJSSawdust
The cost of materials for the DIY CNC was about 1/3 of what I could buy a commercially available one at the size I built. All in, I spent around $2200, but had a lot of extra parts. LOL
@@dgoddard that’s really impressive. I once thought about making one of those sharpie drawing machines….. a much smaller and cheaper scale, but I was too intimidated! Lol.
@@SJSSawdust I was a little intimidated as well when all of the Amazon shipments started arriving and there were parts all over the place. But it really wasn't that tough. I took my time and spent about 4 days building it. I started with the Arduino to control it, but kept having problems that I got tired of chasing so I purchased the Blackbox controller and it was basically plug and play. The biggest problem I've had with it was chasing down EMI. With the bigger spindle, it caused more EMI than I was prepared for. But I threw some jacketed cables on the spindle and put some ferrite cores on all of the wires and haven't had a problem since. It's definitely a doable project for anyone with a basic understand of how a CNC works. RUclips vids and FB groups were a big help as well.
Nice! I opted to just buy the magnetic connectors from a maker (MagPort). They have been an awesome improvement to my shop. One thing I noticed in your video is the sliding plastic blast gates you use. Those are what I used a couple of years ago before I found out the hard way that they are trash and will get clogged up pretty quick without constant attention and stop closing completely. I moved to aluminum blast gates and those were better, but ultimately, I just opted to move my hose from machine to machine as needed which the magnetic connectors made super easy to do.
When I first picked up the blast gates, I had the type that didn’t push all the way through, so after 2 minutes- they wouldn’t close all the way because they packed all the dust in the track, so I exchanged them for this type- that pushes all the way through so it knocks built up dust out of the track and allows it to close fully. I do have a couple that have started to crack- so I will definitely look into the aluminum style next. Thanks!
Nicely done. I can't tell you how many times I've walked past those magnetic connectors and said to myself "some day" ... They are not cheap.
I started kicking myself as soon as I read the title of your video, and am kicking myself harder now that I see how nice yours came out.
Thanks for this idea.
I was in my shop all day with mask and goggles today, and I feel like I was swimming in dust.
This is just what the doctor ordered!!
Thanks for posting!!
Thanks for watching! I thought the same thing and just decided to do it. If/when you make your own, make them user friendly- put a magnet on each edge so you don’t have to think when you are lining them up! ( if that makes sense)
Looks really awesome! You must have saved a boat load of $ making them yourself. Thanks for sharing this great idea. I have the same challenges for my whole shop and have been pondering how to approach this disgusting dusty problem as the shop is in the basement. Now to plan and build.
I also love the way you called for Mom to help you get up, what would we do without Mom.😂 Andrew
Thanks - my shop is very small so you would think the dust collecting would be easy! It’s been a work in progress over the last year +
Funny you just made this video. I purchased a starter kit of Izzy's version that he sold to Mag-Tools. It's great, but pretty expensive to hook up even a few tools. So I've been searching through YT for DIY solutions. Bam! Here you are. LOL Great job. However, I would need a SVG or DXF format, since my CNC is a DIY as well. I use Fusion 360 for all of my machining.
It is funny how that works , isn’t it! I will update the file to have the SVG so it can be imported and used by many of the cad/cam programs. You built your own CNC?
That would be awesome! Just let me know through this comment when you have it ready. And, yes, I built my own. I bought a parts list from a young, Swedish guy on YT who built a DIY one that looked quite sturdy. I took his version and scaled it up to a 32"x32" and put a 2.2kw water-cooled spindle on it. He used Arduino to control, but I went with a Blackbox controller for ease and stability. The CNC works great, but has trouble doing aluminum since the gantry is a little weak in the Y axis. I thought about rebuilding it, but I really only do wood anyhow.@@SJSSawdust
The cost of materials for the DIY CNC was about 1/3 of what I could buy a commercially available one at the size I built. All in, I spent around $2200, but had a lot of extra parts. LOL
@@dgoddard that’s really impressive. I once thought about making one of those sharpie drawing machines….. a much smaller and cheaper scale, but I was too intimidated! Lol.
@@SJSSawdust I was a little intimidated as well when all of the Amazon shipments started arriving and there were parts all over the place. But it really wasn't that tough. I took my time and spent about 4 days building it.
I started with the Arduino to control it, but kept having problems that I got tired of chasing so I purchased the Blackbox controller and it was basically plug and play.
The biggest problem I've had with it was chasing down EMI. With the bigger spindle, it caused more EMI than I was prepared for. But I threw some jacketed cables on the spindle and put some ferrite cores on all of the wires and haven't had a problem since.
It's definitely a doable project for anyone with a basic understand of how a CNC works. RUclips vids and FB groups were a big help as well.
Nice! I opted to just buy the magnetic connectors from a maker (MagPort). They have been an awesome improvement to my shop. One thing I noticed in your video is the sliding plastic blast gates you use. Those are what I used a couple of years ago before I found out the hard way that they are trash and will get clogged up pretty quick without constant attention and stop closing completely. I moved to aluminum blast gates and those were better, but ultimately, I just opted to move my hose from machine to machine as needed which the magnetic connectors made super easy to do.
When I first picked up the blast gates, I had the type that didn’t push all the way through, so after 2 minutes- they wouldn’t close all the way because they packed all the dust in the track, so I exchanged them for this type- that pushes all the way through so it knocks built up dust out of the track and allows it to close fully. I do have a couple that have started to crack- so I will definitely look into the aluminum style next. Thanks!
all that dust gave me asthma. if i breath pine dust i can not breath. be careful out there.
Thank you - it’s nasty stuff for sure