Open Source Dust Shoe Designs

[EddyCurrent]

Looks very nice. Very informative to know that 40 mm pipe can deal with the dust.

You raise the pipe and lower it when needed via bracket or similar?

I started to design a 'proper job' based upon the experiment but computer problems have delayed that.
At first I thought it would be best to set the height just above the work surface and that would be great if you were cutting flat stuff like mdf, ply, etc. but with 3D shapes on thick material it might not be ideal.
The skirt needs to be kept short otherwise it reduces efficiency and get's caught in the cutter so at the moment I'm thinking that for my requirement it's best to have it go up and down with the spindle but also have it manually adjustable so the skirt matches the cutter. Something like this; the 40mm pipe goes in the hole on top.