Dewalt Dust shoe

Try design and make one yourself:)
You can use the free Fusion 360 CAD design and mill it in layers, witch you glue later to one part.

Is more fun than;)

I am in the process of making a dust shoe that is not specific to any spindle. Most amateur/hobby CNC users end up making their own. See also this topic:

https://www.stepcraft-systems.com/en/forum/accessories/4114-long-vacuum-extraction-dust-skirt-brush

I have designed the plate, created the toolpath, bought the 75 mm brushes from Screwfix and ordered the various parts from eBay plastic suppliers but they are letting me down.

- 15 mm acrylic rod/bar for locating bush: ordered Monday 24th April, received, cut and drilled to accept M6 bolt
- 12 mm acrylic plate: ordered Monday 24th April, dispatched Thursday 27th April. Still waiting...
- 24 mm O.D./18 mm I.D. acrylic tube for exhaust flue: ordered Monday 24th April, wrong O.D. (25 mm) sent. Replacement to be dispatched Tuesday, 2nd May.
- M3 press-in brass threaded inserts for plastic: ordered Tuesday, 25th April. Still waiting.

:angry: Frustrating.

Doug

I found one last year on Thingaverse.

Doug, I had to chuckle at your post, as you ALWAYS seem to be up to some interesting jig/fabrication. When I was in my carpentry apprenticeship (many years ago) the boss was always yelling at me for wasting time on jigs, UNTIL he was shown how much time is saved later on with replication and accuracy. Thanks, I stand in awe.

Doug, I had to chuckle at your post, as you ALWAYS seem to be up to some interesting jig/fabrication. When I was in my carpentry apprenticeship (many years ago) the boss was always yelling at me for wasting time on jigs, UNTIL he was shown how much time is saved later on with replication and accuracy. Thanks, I stand in awe.

Thanks! I'm glad my posts are amusing. 😆

I am learning about the importance of jigs in guitar building. I am just in the process of using a piece of blockboard that was unsuitable for making into a guitar into an aligment jib for the upper and lower sections of the Brian May Red Special guitar. I will stick the lower section on the board, screw in oak dowels at strategic points around it. I could also use it for clamping the two sections together which the glue sets.

Also on the drawing board is an idea to mill a jig to align the shaped and radiused guitar fretboard to the cut neck while the glue sets from a piece of wood which has the inverse shape of the finished item and therefore interlocks with the cut neck. Because I have the CAD models, I should be able to easily produce this.

Doug

I just purchased this dust-shoe for my Bosch Colt: https://www.kentcnc.net/nc
A bit pricey, but excellent workmanship, and you can pop off the 3" brush ring and replace w/ 2" ring when using shorter bits. I admire Doug, who is always fabricating something new. I'm not that talented, so if paying extra, demand quality, which shows in Kent's work. By the way, he makes a separate model for the DeWalt, insisting that the hair-measurement difference is important when snugging down the acrylic.

To be fair, the Kent CNC dust shoe does look good quality but it's far too expensive, especially now that the GBP/USD exchange rate is around 1.25.

Plus it seemed like a neat thing to get the Stepcraft to make it's own dust shoe! 😉

Doug

Doug, I agree w/ you that StepCraft should fabricate a dust shoe (since they market the unique tool holder). As to the KentCNC dust shoe being overpriced, compare it with the $99 USD StepCraft dust collector and the fact that you get a "split-shoe" solution, allowing swap-out with different lengths of dust brush (also somewhat costly). As to the exchange rate, I'm sorry to say that right now we seem to enjoy catering only to the upper-classes. Don't mean to inject politics into the forum, but fact is fact.

Sorry, you misunderstood me. I just meant that it was neat that I used my Stepcraft machine to make a custom part for itself. I didn't mean that the Stepcraft company should make their own dust shoe - obviously they have their own dust collector for the Stepcraft HF spindle. I think I paid around £40 for mine which at the time would have cost about US$50?

But yes, you're also correct. Stepcraft should probably offer a larger dust shoe for those with different spindles and heavier duty needs.

Regards.

Doug

Doug, I did understand that you were making your own dust shoe, but you did say, earlier, "seemed like a neat thing to get the Stepcraft to make it's own dust shoe", and that is what I was addressing - if they're going to make a unique toolholder (for the Dewalt), then they should offer a dust shoe to match. Isn't language/communications funny? I'm sure that if someone did a study, we would find some basic reasons for forum threads being so long!