I’m sure I can come up with something. I can immediately offer a pair of mag lock rings and another air hose adapter. I don’t think that does exactly what you want though. I think you’d need 1 mag lock connector and a new type of air hose adapter that fits inside it and emulates the top of the Big Suck’s sweep. That would allow you to magnetically couple two air hoses. Is that what you need?
Adam
Yeah, that’s what I need. I want to connect 2 air hoses. If you came up with something I’d buy it. I love cleaning up my spoil board and surrounding area using my dust collector after a job.
I designed and printed a test part that I needed to make this work. It was very straigt-forward. Here’s a link to the new product:
However, I’m going to design some sort of brush to attach to the end also. That’s my next project today. I mention that in case you’re interested, so you could wait a day or so and save a few dollars on shipping.
Thanks Adam. I’ll wait for the brush.
I was having some issues with my 3D printer so it took me a while to get this done. But here it is, a front mount dust boot for the OneFinity with a spindle and a 4" dust hose.
I added a flip-up hammer lock to keep the dust boot in place and used the same magnet and pilot ring to connect the 4" hose. I’m thinking I will print a second dust boot and install a longer brush so I’ll have a long and short brush for different needs. The support arm geometry had to change since the centerline of the spindle is further away from the Z-slider main plate. I also tweaked the geometry of the air duct to hopefully improve the already wonderful airflow.
Hey Rex, I know this is reaching back a ways, but your June 2024 post mentioned your new design for your dust boot to accomodate a 80mm spindle and 4" dust hose, but there was no link to any files. Are these files available anywhere? What filament did you use in your printer?
Thanks!
Carroll
If you want to print it yourself, you can get the files here: Big Suck Dust Boot (MAKER FILES) – Ugly Dog Woodshop.
I used PLA for the sweep, PETG-CF for the track and PETG for all other parts.
The files for my 80mm spindle dust boot are here:
I printed it in ABS.
Thanks Rex! I’ll give these a look!
Carroll
Hey Rex, I sent the files to my son to 3d print the dust boot for the 80mm spindle and the Z20 mount for my Onefinity. When he sent me the boot, the opening for the spindle is only 60mm and the support arms are much too short for the Z20 slider. Since the other spindle diameter is usually 65mm I’m not sure where the 60mm came from! Any idea what might be the problem?
Thanks!
Carroll
Carroll,
Sorry about that. My 80 mm spindle is from PWN CNC, but it has a smaller diameter section at the bottom. Not sure what you mean regarding the support arms. With my setup, the circle in the dust boot aligns up perfectly with the spindle. Most of the time the smaller diameter opening isn’t much of an issue. There have been a few cases where the spindle needs to lower down really far and then the spindle just barely fits inside the opening in the dust boot. See the attached picture showing my spindle.
If your son can do CAD modeling I could send you the link to my model in OnShape where he could make a copy and then modify some of the dimensions to meet your requirements.
Again, sorry my model isn’t working for your setup.
Rex
Thanks for getting back to me. I hadn’t thought about only the bottom part of the spindle going through the dust boot. I’ll look at that tomorrow but I’m not sure that will give me enough z travel for some of the 3d projects I’m currently working on
