Making a dust shoe mount for the HDZ 4.0

[Julien]

We should make a “I made a bulky Z-independent dust shoe mount for my HDZ and I love it” club

[WIP] Frame around HDZ & Spindle

I’m on a quest to optimize the amount of X-travel I can get from my SO3, so I knew I needed to change something in the attachment scheme for my Suckit dust shoe: the ears/brackets and arms just wasted way too much width. I don’t like spindle-attached dust shoes, so I needed a way to hold the suckit shoe to a fixed (but adjustable) Z-height, that would be as narrow as the HDZ itself. Perfect opportunity to practice my nascent Fusion360 skills, so this is prototype v0 of the beginning of somethi…

Dust Boot for the HDZ 4.0

Like many of you with the HDZ I searched the community and market place for an HDZ compatible dust-boot that was independent of the Z axis (aka the dust boot is stationary as the spindle moves Z- or Z+). If you’ve gone down this hole you have probably learned there is no real good option as many of the solutions (like Ears) decrease your X travel because how they choose suspend the dust boot. That’s when I stumbled across @Julien 's original thread where he iterated quite a bit to solve the res…