Upgrades to my X carve

[MartinW.Mcclary]

I bought some aluminum tube and routed one side to create a channel to fit the X carve part. It worked fine. Basically the tube clips over the part at the top and bottom and is pulled tight like a clamp.

DIY dust shoe mounts for cnc4newbies Z axis

I recently purchased the inventables dust shoe attachment and more recently the cnc4newbies Z axis. I decided I didn’t want to cut up the old X carve dust shoe mounts that get attached to the Z makerslide and I didn’t want to drill and tap into the x carriage. This is what I came up with this. It is easily removable. First I tried a piece of T slot extrusion and found they fit 1/4-20 bolt heads, but not the dust shoe parts. I found online a piece of square aluminum tube with a 1/16" wall …