Bowls Again. Can't keep chips off rails

[Julien]

FWIW: I went down that road, spent a few hours re-creating my own covers in Fusion, only to later realize that :

• they limit my Y travel (the cover extends past the front Y v-wheels, so they collide with the front plate. And I need to squeeze every last fraction of an inch of travel on my S03)
• they don’t provide 100% protection. Large debris don’t get in the wheels, but small gunky ones that adhere to the rail find they way in the wheels, and it quickly becomes a hassle to remove the covers, clean-up everything, reinstall the covers. It’s like the original situation with extra steps.

I then experimented with a simpler, flat design:

Y axis top wheel chip guard

I am knee-deep in aluminium chips right now, and I don’t have a proper chipguard installed around/under the spindle yet, so I thought I would at least try to address the issue of chips flying to the top of the Y rails & belts. Those wheel covers are possibly the best solution out there, unfortunately they don’t fit on my machine (the beaver proximity switch is in the way). This other option is also great, but I was too lazy to make a full box, so I borrowed the basic concept of David’s wheel co…

which worked OK-ish (at least it minimized my Y travel issue), but it fell off at some point and I never bothered to reinstall it, which I took as a sign that it was not really useful (to me)