C-Beam Dust Collector

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Hey, I wanted to share my dust collector file in case others wanted to use! I used the Maslow for about a month before i really got frustrated with the Z-axis issues. I took a lot of great advice and knowledge from this forum and then rebuilt my sled on a leftover sheet of plywood + HDPE and most importantly a C-Beam. I designed up some brackets to match up with my Ridgid router and then designed a dust collector to screw onto my sled and wrap around my C-Beam. This is hooked up to my Shopvac. 3D printed the collector out of PLA @ 80% infill (0.2 mm layers) and have had no issues. Does a pretty good job of getting all the saw dust. The only issue I had was removing the support material from inside, long pair of pliers is a must. .Stl file attached. It was designed around a Ridgid vaccumm hose at 1.25" OD (so dust collector is tapered 1.25" ID of course).

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vaccuum attachment.STL (1.1 MB)

Sean

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This is super nice. Awesome work.

Does it work well to get all the dust even without fully enclosing the router bit?

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Bar, thanks for all the work you’ve done!

Yeah, it actually does get almost everything, especially if its cutting in a direction where the “big fish mouth” is following the path. I’ve never done the full enclosure other than the Ridgid router base so I can’t truly compare. I do like that it gets pretty much everything but that I can still look at the cut and watch it if I need to monitor closely.

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Use a one of those vibrate-y multi-tools to free your work from the tabs. They are now cheap and make quick work of that exact problem.

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