Dewalt 611 Air Diverter and Dust Shoe

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Taylor Ledak

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Taylor Ledak

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September 05, 2015

General Information

Air diverter and dust shoe for Dewalt 611. I carved this out of a 1/2" thick plastic cutting board. The carve took about 3 hours with a 1/8" bit. The vacuum adapter is a Rigid Universal Tool Adapter VT1407 available at Home Depot.

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Alan Davis

Looks great.

Alan Davis · September 05, 2015

James Mitchell

How did you attach your dust skirt?

James Mitchell · September 06, 2015

Taylor Ledak

Velcro strip. The velcro has an adhesive back. The velcro is 3/4" wide so it hangs below the skirt about 1/4". Helps to keep the clear vinyl from getting ducked up in the vacuum too.

Taylor Ledak · September 06, 2015

Bryan Sheets

Totally made one of these from 1/2 plywood.... I don't recommend it lol

Bryan Sheets · September 10, 2015

Matthew Jamison

I tried this and it cut clear through and never did the air diverter part. I selected all and clicked "carve". Not sure where I went wrong. I was using a 1/8" bit like you said and the material was 1/2". Hmmmmmm....... help! :)

Matthew Jamison · September 17, 2015

Mason Tejera

How does this attach to the spindle?

Mason Tejera · November 06, 2015

Matt Young

Mason, notice the 2 screw holes in the indention of the shoe, 2 screws come in the 611 that hold the side button in on the router. You remove those, attach the shoe in the obvious fit and stick the screws back in through the shoe first then up into the router and screw em in.

Matt Young · March 03, 2016

John Isbell

Hey trying to cut this and the last couple of percent went psycho. Can you explain what happened. It was at just over three hours when it happened. The spot marked one was about an eighth off and the vacuum hose cutout was way off. Everything was fine until then.

John Isbell · March 04, 2016

Neil Berkeley

Thanks so much easy to made in mdf not sure if it will be strong enough to last. But as a prototype it should last more than 5 min :) Cheers

Neil Berkeley · May 22, 2016

Neil Berkeley

question..... did dewalt redesign the 611 because i will have to buy longer screws to make this work? where the boot mounts to the router its too thick to use standard oem screws

Neil Berkeley · May 23, 2016

Ken Bradshaw

I ended up replacing the spindle screws with #2 wood screws. Worked well.

Ken Bradshaw · September 27, 2016

Rob Deckert

I cut this last night from hard maple and it came out great! Thanks for posting this. Pictures to follow.

Rob Deckert · November 21, 2016

David

Made this yesterday from Cherry - Not recommended. Ordered an HDPE sheet today to remake this next weekend. Is the mounting secure enough, just using those two screws? Seems like a lot of tension will be focused on that one area.

David · December 27, 2016

Christopher Finke

A suggestion for the design: if you superimpose a zero-depth circle inside the cut-out where the vacuum adapter attaches, the X-Carve won't spend the extra time carving that area down, only to cut it out entirely later in the carve.

Christopher Finke · January 14, 2017

David E Yoder

Does anyone have a source for buying the dust skirt?

David E Yoder · April 21, 2018

Adam Haile

You got an STL for this?

Adam Haile · December 03, 2018

Cameron Balch

Also looking for a link to the dust skirt for this build. Let me know if you have one!

Cameron Balch · July 31, 2019