Any chance you guys could make a Sweepy version that has a shallow plastic body but longer bristles on the brush?
When making deep dish trays or bowls, the Sweepy body will crash into the material unless it is either removed or raised all the way. Which makes a huge mess…
I’ve thought about that. I think the caveat is that much longer and the brush would get sucked into the spinning stuff. 
The Sweepy Pro might work better in your case… if you have the depth under the gantry.
I use the dust shoes from Pwncnc, they focus more now on spindles etc, but at least oe fan get the digital files. I use Z-independent dust shoes. They have their pros and cons. More pros I think, but… However to get the chips away from small, deep projects is a challenge, because they fall down where they cannot be reached by the dust shoe.
If longer bristles solve the issue please post here!
I do have the Sweepy Pro. The bristles are the same length. Longer bristles getting pulled into the spinning bits could be an issue.
For many of my small deep projects i will manually vacuum behind the cutter to clean out slots tight pockets. But if the chips ar being thrown everywhere to begin with, that is much harder to do.
The picture shows the Deep Sweepy. Did you try the Pro and it didn’t work for you?
You are correct, i have the Deep Sweepy for the 65mm VFD. I dont have the Pro, are the bristles on it longer or does it some how provide better suction than the other Sweepies?
The Sweepy Pro:
is a dust shoe which one adjusts to match the current stock height/depth of cut (and then has to remember to lift up/remove/replace before/after a tool change) — it works quite well for cutting sheet goods in my experience and is well-suited to that usage.
For deeper cuts such as are shown in the photo, it’s a balancing act — one thing which might help would be to lower the spindle in the mount — the Sweepy works best when the bottom of the brushes are at the same Z height as the tip of the tool. On similar cuts, I’ve found myself setting things up so that the first portion can be done with the regular Sweepy bottom, then switching to the Deep Sweepy towards the end, adjust the height/position of the Sweepy to match.
As noted, if the bristles are nearly equal to or greater in length than the radius of the bottom opening they get chewed up by the tool.
I have an older SO3 with a 3rd party dust boot. I got longer bristles on my dust boot and they got sucked up inside the dust boot. I finally trimmed them down to about 1.5" and that was enough to not get sucked up inside but still keep the chips/dust from being spread all over the spoilboard and shop. Some things in life are not negotiable but some things have to have a practical compromise. The length of your dust boot is one of those practical compromises.
You have a CNC Router. Make your own. You can use just about anything for the “brush”. Cardboard, thin plastic, foam or even thick paper. Mine has a “lip” that helps locate the bottom piece that is held in place with magnets and this is easily and quickly removeable for tool changes. The top layer has a slit cut in it in the back with a screw going left to right to hold it onto the router body. My first one was made out of a piece of 2x4 and worked great for years.
Thats pretty cool Gary. If i ever get some downtime from filling tray orders, i might give something like that a try.
Buy bristles from McMaster and glue them in. Any length you want. McMaster-Carr
Nice. Thanks for the link!
I will warn against the bristles. I tried that and as the router moves closer to the workpiece the bristles tend to compress and it caused me horribly uneven cuts. Your mileage may vary.
Thanks for the input Gary. The bristles on my deep sweepy are already compressed and tangled pretty good.
