So this new part is a glue-on add-on for the existing latest v1.1 of the Floating Z Dust Shoe. It’s a “universal” part which means it works for all three editions, the Dewalt, Kobalt, and Makita.
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It’s a slope-ie, ramp-ie thing to glue onto the bottom of the floating Z shoe body, to minimize the surface area that “sleds” and to keep the bristles from getting splayed out because of the shoe bottoming out.
Design in F360 (sketch represents upside-down shoe body, i.e. the bottom of the shoe):
It can be printed in any layer height you wish, with thinner layers meaning a smoother, better slope-ie, ramp-ie thing, but taking longer to print. My 0.3 layer height profile could have printed this in 20 minutes…
…but I chose to go to the “super quality” to print it with 0.12 layer height, and that showed as taking 1 hour and 18 minutes:
The idea is just print it, and CA glue it onto the bottom of the shoe. It should then sled on the material, and keep the shoe from bottoming out, and keep the bristles functional. If it collides with any obstacle, hopefully it will sled right over it, because of its slope-ie, ramp-ie sides! Below are images showing what the shoe looks like with it added:
