I’m glad it is serving you well. These are links to my Fusion360 files. If you do make changes, please put them on thingiverse as a remix of the original. I am a self-trained designer, so I apologize if my drawings are ratty. I’m certain there are a million “best practices” that I trample.
Ryan, you don’t release the drawings for your parts (specifically tool mounts), do you? Working off of STLs has been doable but not the most pleasant experience. And while recreating models of the mounts has been a fun exercise in learning CAD, it’s certainly not quickest way to go about modifying parts.
I have literally tried for many hours to “beef up” Toms dust shoe design. Ive found (for me anyway) the vertical wall is too thin at only 1.x mm and for whatever reason my McMaster Carr brush is WAY too tight and breaks my walls there too. I use designspark mechanical (and love it) but editing the STL is not an option here. Ive tried to edit the original files Tom provided but my lack of 360 knowledge has only gave me a sore back sitting here at the computer.
Sooo, If anyone could makes Toms design a little beefer in those ares I’d GREATLY appreciate it. As is, I have a dust shoe that wont do me much good. Thanks
For getting something to mate to the tool mounting plate itself, none. For the lazy, like myself, not having to recreate the wheel and model the other half that mounts to the tool is nice as well.
Sorry for the confusion, I’ll clarify. I meant models for something along the lines of the burly mount itself. Such that I don’t need to re-model the part that clamps the neck of the DW660. Unless I’m missing something (and I’m new so I very well may be) I don’t think models for the burly mounts themselves are made public.
I was originally asking if you released models for the burly mount itself. I was left to recreate things like this for the mount with the air jet added:
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I’m still hacking away at this. I think I’ve got the lower mount pretty well sorted. Ended up making ports on both sides of the mount such that the elbow and air line can be placed on either side. I’ve sealed the unused side with a printed plug. I’m still working out the design of the shoe - I’d like to make the shoe removable without the need to remove the lower lock piece.
Likely an over optimization but It’d also be pretty slick if brush height was adjustable. Either by printing different brush mounts and making them easy to swap or making the brush mount itself have different mounting locations.
Had time to finish up enough of the burly vacjet to make some 1.5" square test cuts in 1/2 inch ply. Inital cuts looked good. Even with the far from optimal ziptied hose management the sizing of the parts looked just about spot on. Still a few kinks to work out though:
Length of skirt relative to depth of cuts
Angle / placement of the air jet
Skirt material that everyone is using in this thread is really rigid stuff. So rigid that I think it may be worth thinning out to reduce the force needed for it to flex and give during cuts.
I’m going to go through a few more iterations over the coming days/weeks and publish the drawings / STLs thereafter. So far the design hasn’t required the use of any supports while printing. Hoping to keep it that way.
The shoe still needs a bit of tuning but I’m very happy with the progress thus far. Made several aluminum cuts today with no gumming up of the bit. I do need to run another circuit in the garage, however. Managed to start popping breakers with the compressor, vac, and router all running simultaneously.
@Bruh, It seems as though the version you have created allows for an overall depth of cut of at least 1/2"? Can you confirm the max depth of cut with your design? Tom Cole claims his design can do a max of 1.5cm, just a little over a 1/2". I’d like to print the design that affords me the deepest cut possible.
Also, it doesn’t appear as though you have posted your files for download, am I missing them somewhere?
Here is the onshape document that I’ve been working out of: Onshape
I can’t confirm the max DOC though I have cut 1/2" ply with that design. The brush material that everyone in this thread uses is pretty stiff. If I did it again I’d go with something softer. You’ll lose z steps if you plunge into material far enough because the brush doesn’t flex.
You can play with the (poorly named) “Extrude 9” in that document to match your depth needs.
@bruh, that onshape site is… slow… I signed up for the free account and got one email stating they would send me another email with my account information, couple days later now and I’m still waiting. Anyway you could post an STP or IGES file here?
