Dust boot? Anyone got a setup to share?

[808steven (Steven C Uy)]

Dust boot? Anyone got a setup to share?

[Dashpool (Chris Same)]

Winston shared some potential setup on this thread Dust collection for Nomad3?

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

That design was expanded on and published at:

3D Printed Nomad 3 Dust Boot w/ Brush

Hey guys, I’ve been working on an officially-sanctioned-but-still-unofficial dust management device for the Nomad. Previously I’d designed something that would take a vacuum hose and basically clamp it to the spindle, which was good enough to capture the airborne nasties that would escape from cutting MDF and stuff, but didn’t have a brush. Enough people sounded like they really wanted that extra option so I threw a concept together. [IMG-3872] This is a two-part dust shoe that works just lik…

I’m currently looking into having one 3D printed in transparent plastic — alternately, considering a design which could be milled on the machine, but I like the idea of just starting my use of the machine w/ dust collection a solved problem.

[wmoy (Winston)]

The bottom portion can definitely be re-designed in a way that’s more machining-friendly. But, you could even just try to machine this as-is, and just leave areas with undercuts untouched.

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Unfortunately, I don’t have a block of transparent plastic that size, and suspect it would be a budget buster — I do have a sheet of plastic (I’m hoping it’s cast acrylic) which I fished out of a dumpster from my previous job (waste not, want not, yes I’m cheap) which I believe could be made to serve — we’ll see which wins out, making something, or sending out for the 3D print. It’s all in abeyance until my Nomad 3 is scheduled for shipment.

[wmoy (Winston)]

You know… now that you mention plastic sheeting I wonder if it might be possible to print a negative mold or something and then vacuum form plastic… Definitely wouldn’t work for the tight tolerance stuff like the magnet pockets though.

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Actually, w/ a pair of molds I think it would work:

• top attaches to the machine, has circular ridges for magnets to be placed at the bottom
• bottom is the dust shoe and has similar ridges

just glue the magnets in place, or use the ones with hole and install in one part w/ suitable hardware, then similarly install a washer (so polarity won’t interfere) on the other.

Tricky part would be balancing the height of the attachment point for the vacuum hose.