HDZ Is Ordered - SuckIt?

The rails, yes, but not the Y plates at the end of the X rail (at least back when I did this…things change, I may be wrong)
So it did limit my X travel, which is the whole reason I then embarked on a crazy custom dust shoe journey, don’t do that :slight_smile:

Yes, however once you got a taste of using Z-independent dust shoes, it is hard to go back to router-attached dust shoes.

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Gary - you can do it! No need for a 3D printer. When I did the retro fit, it was an exercise with aluminum and an excuse to buy a 3D printer. As Julien mentioned, the design/process could be simplified quite a bit. 3D printing the arms and ears introduces a bit of flexing that some may not enjoy; everything can be made out of wood.

Using the design files from C3D for the small ears, and then you can reference the dimensions from my files for the spacers/arms/hardware - you won’t need to modify anything else with the Suckit Pro. I highly encourage you to give it a go yourself, but if you’re willing to accept a 3D printed setup that’s functional with room for improvement, PM me your address and I’ll ship my set up to you. As I’ve mentioned in a thread or two, I upgraded to an 80mm spindle way sooner than I had originally anticipated which has made my Suckit Pro OEM and retrofit obsolete (I already sold my OEM Suckit Pro to a friend locally).

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Contact Jenn Chepurny at Suckit Dust Boot and explain your situation. Jenn is extremely helpful with her customers. She will set you up with the items you need to make the Dust Boot work with your installation on the HDZ. She was very cooperative helping me with my installation.

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Hi Ed! I sent a note using the SuckIt site - which is now OneFinity.com two days ago…no response at all.

I tried PwnCNC, as recommended above and they responded, “I’m afraid I don’t… producing parts for another vendor might run afoul with something. However I have designed HDZ brackets that fit my own dust boot.”
Not exactly what I was looking for :unamused:

I can see these folks don’t play well together. Everyone is friends when they are filling a void in another guy’s product line…but the community kind of breaks down when they are competitors. Ah well.

I can measure my parts when Im home this weekend. Should be able to redraw them in cad. For the arms it might take making in wood and then hitting it with sander for fit of curves.

Jenn from Onefinity got back to me this evening. She indicated that they haven’t made anything new for a while for the HDZ, but if the HDZ 4 has the same holes, they should have a mount for it. Of course, that’s not in stock - but will be in a few weeks.

In the meantime, a couple of kind folks here have reached out to me…so I’m getting a lot of good advice.

Thanks all.

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Hey Gary, it looks like I’m in the same boat as you, needing to attach a Suckit to the HDZ. I also reached out to Jenn and got the same reply, I’m pretty skeptical about getting any parts from Suckit since they are busy making a complete new CNC machine. I’ll be watching this thread for help.

I have the newest version of the HDZ ordered. I also have Suckit dust boots. I am curious to see if there is any issue with the new proximity switch brackets with the Suckit brackets.
As soon as I get my HDZ 4.0 delivered I will get it mounted and see what it needs. At that time I can design, print/carve and ship whatever is needed within a day or two.

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@rickjackson

I also need these parts from Suck It while I wait for my HDZ. But I can say about two weeks ago I needed some new router shields and Jenn mailed me them during the company transition. Infact she sent me the wrong ones at first and then sent me the correct ones overnight. So I wouldn’t worry about them not sending anything.

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So if I upgrade spindle with 80 mm mount will suck it dust boot not work with this setup? If not what is everyone using for Dust collection after this upgrade?

So does anyone have drawings for the new spacers and arms? I see the link to the ears and I’m working on them. Could someone with the parts share the measurements?

Welcome to the community @Ian123! Please refer to post #3. There is a hyper link in Julien’s first sentence that leads to a thread where I had fabricated my own; feel free to use the files and improve upon them as you see fit.

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I used @RoughDraft40’s design files and they worked great

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Thank You, I Think I got all the info needed and I’m making whats needed.

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I started making the suckit parts for the upgrade which shipped today.

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what did you end up using for dust collection with 80mm mount? I would like to upgrade spindle next

@Ian123 Are you finding that you can’t attach the same design of the ear with the proximity switch of the HDZ4? I believe (though I COULD be wrong) that our friends at carbide have made the old ears obsolete. I hope you’ve found a way.

Are we deliberately being forced to buy a Sleepy?

Let me ask this question more generally:

Has the design of the proximity switches for the HDZ4 made the ears for the previous SuckIt dust boot adaptations obsolete? I don’t see how they both can fit anymore.

@robgrz @WillAdams @Luke: Please advise.

The mounting points for the proximity switches hasn’t really changed for the X limit switch. It ‘should’ still work but it hasn’t been tested.

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@GJM

I’m on it, normally it works. just like the old hdz.
thanks to @Julien @RoughDraft40


I didn’t have aluminum… I made it with acrylic.
I’ll post another photo when I’m done.

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