dust foot

[james mcgrew]

this is the new dust foot i did today, thomas you were working on one of these?

there is a photo of the old one as well

[TomM]

Hey Jim,
I got some acrylic and made a foot and it works Great!!
I have to figure out how I'm going to hold the hose as the machine moves along the table. I have the dust collector blower on wheels so I can wheel it outside the garage. Want to any dust from the blower far away, plus it frees up some space in the garage. I'll post a pic of the setup once I get things in order.
Thanks for the pics of the shoe.
Tom

[james mcgrew]

here is a method for dust collector arms

we initialy hung ours from the cieling, was not bright but it worked!!
jim

[james mcgrew]

tom, i'd like to see your dust foot, hows cabinetpartspro comming ?

jim

[james mcgrew]

strip brush, i used 1/8 or 3/16 nylon the horsehair is too stiff

http://www.mcmaster.com/

page 1227 for both the nylon strip and the aluminum holder

the foot on the left is my older one and did not provide enough chm's for dust removal the brush on it is from home depot in the door sweep section and will provide a 1" sweep well!! and cheap!

jim

[james mcgrew]

http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_base/_dust_collection_design_guide.pdf

[Eric Mims]

the guys haven't gotten my dust foot to me yet... and today I surfaced my spoilboard... not a pretty sight.

[james mcgrew]

joey was telling me of yours and my dust foots today!

i sure hope you cut reall slow so as not to throw plums of dust everywhere

ugg!!

jim

[Eric Mims]

no, I cut relatively fast and my whole shop was a mess!! wow. I thought I could follow it with my 4" dust collection hose, but it overwhelmed me and I had to leave the room and let it finish. I came back to a shop covered in 'disassembled' MDF.

[james mcgrew]

now that was a good laugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jim:p:p:p:p

[james mcgrew]

dust foot aa

[james mcgrew]

http://billpentz.com/woodworking/cyclone/Ducting.cfm

[james mcgrew]

WOW!!

http://www.funnyhub.com/videos/pages/cool-sawdust-explosion.html

[james mcgrew]

http://home.comcast.net/~rodec/woodworking/articles/DC_myths.html

[Angus_Hines]

Any other Dust Feet pic around ??? I need to do this to....

Note to other Blue people this is something you'll want to do also as I find the one that comes with the machine is is is ......Well a waste of good plastic!

[Russ Revels]

A picture of my dust shoe on my home made router table. It is a piece of plywood with brush and holder from McMaster Carr. It is called conveyor brush if I remember correctly. I use a 2 1/2 inch hose going to my 4 inch dust system.

Russ

[james mcgrew]

angus i sent the macmaster carr numbers for the strip brush and holder, if you find the local glass company who sell and cuts plastic they will usually have a cut bin of off fall, you can get lucky and buy small pieces of clear plexi

jim

the part numbers from mcmaster carr in atlanta for the 2" brush strips i use in my dust foot are as follows

2" tall nylon strip #74405t3 1/8" x2" brush 4.29 per foot

aluminum holder #8813t496 1/8" aluminum holder 6.65 per 6' section

you can go to macmaster carr on line and enter "strip brush" and it will take you to the brush page, thier phone number is on the site and we get all of our stuff next day

[Angus_Hines]

THanks Jim, got that yesterday.....and have loads of 1/2 plexi here in the shop.

So looking at the pictures it seems that the best place to collect the dust is in front of the router??? Not behind ???

[Russ Revels]

I think the arrangement of in front of the router is just convenience. I hadn't thought about putting it behind but as long as nothing gets in the way it should work fine. I have the brush on my dust foot so that I can slide the one toward me off so I can see the bit to set x y and z then slide it back in place.

Russ

[james mcgrew]

modified the x3 foot today and well worth the effort, there was some things i could not do with the other congig

jim

[Eric Mims]

much better Jim. I'll have to do that sometime soon. What thickness acrylic did you use?

[james mcgrew]

i used 1/8 inch clear, i flipped the foot over and cut out the center it left a ridge to accept the clear, i now have anothe 3/4 clearance and can seeee!!

jim

[ProjectCNC]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkcDn_iCOkk

This is a really lousy video of a shoe I made two years ago. I don't have a video camera. Just used my old digital camera. Anyhow you can probably get the idea. Just a week or so ago (2 years later) I rebuilt it and made it better. You can see it at my blog ProjectCNC.wordpress.com. (See improved vac shoe or dust shoe). Thanks

I hope it's okay for me to post here. I'm not a CAMaster owner.

[Rick Weingart]

I like the dust boot ! kinda goes around cir-tan clamps could also miss the Head stock a little better . At least on my [stinger] !
[lol]

Im on it ! Next Post

New Boots ! (lol)

That Boot in the video needs to be an up down axis ! sorta the 7th axis ! LOL

Add a stepper to it ! [clap]

[Rick Weingart]

I looked at Jim's links ![wink]

[Mick Martin]

Nice dust foot rick [clap] .... high tech ....... I rotated one of your pictures