Anyone else smash and reprint their dust shoe already? Big thanks to the company for having the files ready to print. I was only down for about five hours while the new one printed.
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Yes - on day one 
And printed my new one in blue as well lol. Darn table clamps haha!
Haha ok glad I’m not alone. My was a straight up Z smash into the drag chain. Maybe I should make sure I’m hitting the right button next time.
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I hadn’t had problems caused by running into clamps, etc. with my dust boot. However… for whatever reason it has become increasingly difficult to remove the hose end from the fitted end. The weird thing is that it worked perfectly… then all of a sudden it didn’t fit anymore. Sienci Labs will be sending me a replacement, but I’m just wondering if anyone else has run into this problem.
I have never installed the Sienci dust boot because I could not remove the Y bit from the I bit in my initial handling. I have read/heard that it is supposed to get easier as it wears in but IMHO it’s a crappy setup. Why they don’t use a magnetic upper/lower section so you don’t have to handle the damn hose every time you deal with the boot is beyond me. I believe that this was the way the boot is on a Long Mill.
Anyway, I designed and built a standard boot like you see on any other CNC router where the brush part is held on magnetically.
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Great idea, I should have thought of using magnets 
Yes, I’ve crashed it and broke it, but no I haven’t needed to reprint it. At least not yet.
My favorite method of repairing 3d prints is an old T-Shirt and CA glue. I have two patches on my original dust shoe. Use painters tape on the outside to hold things in place, put on some thin CA on the inside and apply cloth. Add more CA to saturate the cloth and spray with some activator. But keep you face away as the heat/fumes generated when it hardens can be harmful.
It has the benefit of making it a lot more robust when you smash into something the next time.
I’m sure I’ll eventually have to reprint it, and I may even just reprint one before I need it. Just so I don’t have downtime when the inevitable happens.
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That’s the way to go! If it works, it works, who cares about looks when there’s a mirror in the bathroom screaming at ya every morning.
At least… here it does…