Thanks Rod - Yeah I have been looking all over the forum. This started off as a bit of a rant because it really was my own fault. I knew there was a reason I had my router sitting so low in the clamp. Unfortunately I had to ruin a nice people of maple, not to mention having to plane the top from a guitar and joint, thickness, glue up, thickness again, and glue to the mahogany body, just to start from square 1 again to remind me.
I just received Sam's (dixiebillet) clamp yesterday and have it all installed with the dust boot and it seems to work OK. I might adjust the design of the dust boot at some point, as you have done in your thread. Thanks for the link. I think I saw it but didn't read well enough to get the understanding of what you had done. My front brush is a little long, I think, as it gets sucked up into the vacuum hole cutting off some suction. All your mods are great ideas. Thanks again.
The Gantry I was also considering. I want to try and do the simple fixes first. Thanks again for the link. After that I will turn my attention to the table. I think I will make slats from hardwood and bolt to the track, countersink the connections and use the hardwood slats as a spoil board and then I can also use them with the clamps. I think I saw a thread where Sam (dixiebillet) did something similar.
One thing that bothers me is the fact that the machine is sold as having a 7" Z axis but the underside of the Z axis support is barely 6" off the table, also the table isn't square so you have to add a couple of inches of spoil board, bring it down to probably closer to 4", if that.
Thanks for all the tips from the community at large.
Cheers Peter.