@Ton80 wrote:
Hi… My Shapeoko 3 XXL arrived tomorrow! Excited to start putting it together and setting up my area and machine to run some tests to become familiar with it’s operation.
The one thing I know I need and want right away is a dust shoe/boot. But, the Suckit is minimum of 3 weeks out on orders and the KentCNC model is a bit pricey. So I’ve decided it should be plenty easy to machine my own dust shoe very similar to the KentCNC model.
This type of shoe though attached to the spindle and it seems to me the bristles compressing down onto the wood might have potential to add some stress to the Z motor? Maybe it’s not an issue and in that case, great. But if it is, what can be done to limit that. The brushes that everyone seems to use in the YT videos all seem a bit on the stiff side when the Z axis lowers into the material and the brush compresses. The felt or other flap types don’t seem to have that problem but they also don’t look to contain the dust as well.
Just curious if there is a softer bristle out there? I don’t foresee needing Z depths deeper of 3/8" and most of my work is only around 1/8"-1/4" deep on the z axis… so maybe this is not a concern at all.
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