Each of the router spindles has a 4in brush "skirt" around it, which I replaced this morning - made a bit of a difference, but not as much as I'd hoped for. There is a 120mm flexible hose take-off on each head and there are 2 x 120mm take-offs at the back of the drilling "crown". Drilling operations seem to leave waste materials everywhere, the DX is almost useless on them.
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Thanks for the suggestion about air blowing. I have toed with the idea, but what I find a bit daunting is threading the extra air line and control line through the power/services chains to the gantry front. I use an air jet on our pin router when I'm copy routing plastics, so I guess it should work quite well. On the pin router it reduces the tndency of plastic swarf to weld-back.
Has anyone tried a compressed air vortex accellerator to increase waste pick-up? Seen them on welding extractors and wondered if they would be useable on larger/heavier chips.
Also are brush skirts better or worse than the polyurethane "finger" skirts I've seen on some machines?
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