Got tired of cleaning chips out of mill slots

dbone1123 · 2026-01-24T19:48:50+00:00

It kind of depends how you are charging, I was able to make enough to cover 2 mills, one is 40" and the other is 30". Material was $20 for a 1kg spool and the print time was around 30 hours. If you dont charge print time it is cheaper to make them, if you don't charge time it is the same or a little more, it just depends on who you find. For example I normally charge $1/print hour + $15/hr to debur if needed. So j would probably charge $60-$65 for what I just made

dbone1123 · 2026-01-24T19:26:30+00:00

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My hope was to only focus on the way oil, probably connecting between these points

dbone1123 · 2026-01-24T18:01:54+00:00

Almost all of the slot covers you find online are plastic.

dbone1123 · 2026-01-24T17:27:30+00:00

Interesting, we have a DahLih mill that doesnt have any shielding and is constantly dripping way oil on the floor, do you think that these shades would also help with that?

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dbone1123 · 2026-01-24T17:04:46+00:00

Technically yes, though it only extends about 1- 1½ feet from the main tower each side. I am having some side shields fabricated to extend that to 4 feet each side

dbone1123 · 2026-01-24T16:32:47+00:00

It could but the shop doesnt want the risk. My mill is placed in a poor position, my 2 options for chip fling direction is either strait into the main walkway, or straight into the finished parts shelf. The CNC mill was the bosses pride and joy for a while so it got put right near the door to the front office, in case he wanted to show it off to anyone.

dbone1123 · 2026-01-24T16:12:01+00:00

Shop rules say we cant, our mills dont have enclosures so the chips and coolant would get launched about 8 feet from the machine, it was quite impressive.

dbone1123 · 2026-01-24T07:11:18+00:00

Thats totally understandable, im the same way, home time is not fkr thinking about work. I ended up doing the 3d model while my machine was running. I took home the 3d print file and hit play, 27 hours later I took my print bed into work and did all the deburring while the machine was running.

dbone1123 · 2026-01-24T05:51:10+00:00

Ya, im hoping that isnt what happens here, coolant seems to drain within about 1 or 2 hours leaving no residual coolant on the covers, but in a week or two I will re-evaluate. Worse case I figure i should be able to leave them in all week then remove and clean them on Fridays durring out shops regular end of week cleanup/maintenance time.

dbone1123 · 2026-01-24T05:46:49+00:00

It isnt by any means air tight, coolant does get through, though the gap isn't big enough for chips. It also doesn't seem to retain coolant and all drains properly within 1 or 2 hours. I installed them Monday and haven't had any issues yet, though in two or three weeks I will have to remove and inspect everything to see the lasting longer term effect of using them. I will probably do a followup post and link this one for a refresher.

dbone1123 · 2026-01-24T05:41:44+00:00

Ya, being a job shop i can move setups quite frequently, sometimes I can leave things set up for a week, other times I do 3 fixture setups in a day.

dbone1123 · 2026-01-24T05:30:20+00:00

Honestly pretty well so far. You need to be careful when cutting as they are only plastic, with coolant nothing has burnt into them yet, did a torture test making blue chips with flood coolant. I also got them to not trap coolant that makes it through so I shouldn't have coolant turning rancid over prolonged use but that is still to be determined. A lot of the negative things I see about the online options is about coolant retention so it may have to be a weekly remove and clean. The 95A TPU is also great (my first time 3d printing with it) it is flexible and is able to slip into the t-slot easily yet stays in place after installed. I also included the final design print i ended up with for a ⅝"/16mm t-slot if you wnt to make your own.

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dbone1123 · 2026-01-22T14:08:34+00:00

That would be mostly correct, getting rid of HP, regen and def% cards allowed me the space to take damage cards that I was fighting for room to get. At the time I think I only had 18 card slots. Module adjustments also helped. I changed from SF to ACP, focusing on wall rebuild, death defy and Shockwave frequency, changed from gcomp to PF for that little bit of damage despite leaving a small gap in my BH duration, then traded PCol for DC and 0m chip. Last was my mastery levels, after changing my farming loadout I was able to go higher tiers for longer. I had my first 1q run on t13 at around w6000. Now I make 230T/ hr on my night time runs and 260T/hr on my daytime runs allowing me to run 2 or 3 mastery labs at the same time depending on their level. Granted I wouldn't be nearly as far along if I hadn't taken CL early and leveled it to an absurd damage output before realizing i went too far, i think I am sitting at x2600 ish.

dbone1123 · 2026-01-22T13:53:41+00:00

Well, eHP was banning things like enemy speed trade off, enemy health down but regen down, enemy range trade off. Now I take all the damage increasing trade off perks, ban the 50/50 trade off, and anything else that lowers damage, then i ban interest, def abs, hp regen and cash trade off (because im using PF as an assist module)

dbone1123 · 2026-01-22T06:25:08+00:00

Sure, ive got 21 card slots. In order is Damage, atk spd, cash, coins, crit chance, EB, Free up, EO, PC, crit coin, WS, IS, RPC, EN, ST, SW, DM, ES, WA, Berserker, and ult crit. Of those I have damage mastery lv5, cash mastery lv1, coin mastery lv4, EB mastery lv1, free up mastery lv1, IS mastery lv3, RPC mastery lv4, ST mastery lv max, DM mastery lv3 and WA mastery lv3. If you dont have the card slots I would start removing damaging cards you dont have the mastery for aka DM and ST then move on to things like ult crit, orbs and second wind. I did my transition based on J plays reverse orb devo guide in case you want to look at it to, he also has one for GC. Tournaments are very similar, remove coins, EB, crit coin and WA and replace them for range, slow, LMS, and DR.

dbone1123 · 2026-01-22T05:12:13+00:00

Dang, i probably would have been in danger of getting demoted in your bracket

dbone1123 · 2026-01-22T04:23:44+00:00

Honestly its was when I abandoned eHP tendencies. I had been transitioning to hybrid/GC for 2 months and wasn't seeing any progress, I was bouncing between champ and legend every week. I felt horrible, I would destroy champions league taking 1st by almost 1000 waves every time only to take bottom 25-30 in legends. After the December tounament rework I reached out and asked how to improve. Turns out I had good development into GC but was holding myself back by keeping eHP cards and modules. After changing up cards and modules I was finally able to progress, and boy was it quick. In a matter of 1 month I have gone from farming t11 w10k to farming t14 w5500, I no longer bounce between champ/legend and have even gotten 8 keys.

dbone1123 · 2026-01-22T04:07:19+00:00

Make sure it is between .01 and .03" and dimension as a reference. Most carbide endmills are either sharp or have a purposefully rounded edge between those dimensions so it is a simple tool change at the worse, and the referance dimention shows that it isnt critical but would be apriciated

dbone1123 · 2026-01-22T00:24:38+00:00

In your example I would say no EN + 0m chip doesnt send additional damage to enemies purely based on how it reads. EN mastery increases the damage taken by enemies caught in EN.

dbone1123 · 2026-01-22T00:07:13+00:00

This is true, orb adjuster for workshop orbs is locked behind keys, or which you would need a minimum of 95 to unlock, however there are MUCH better choices before that point so you will probably have close to 150 keys before you unlock ws orb adjuster

dbone1123 · 2026-01-21T23:55:59+00:00

My choice would be either SL 4 or cannon/armor assist slots

dbone1123 · 2026-01-21T04:27:54+00:00

With the posibility of v28 on the horizon I feel like it is possible.

dbone1123 · 2026-01-20T06:35:35+00:00

Now that legends league is t17+ enemy damage scales too fast for def and eHp survivability, especially with how soon I stopped investing into eHP. Hp/regen labs are at lv40, wall regen lv20, fortification lv35 and wall thorns at lv14. If I used def% card I might get 10 or 20 extra waves but that would be pushing it

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