Pattnmaker
Stainless
- Joined
- Nov 2, 2007
- Location
- Hamilton, Ontario
For the type of work I do a typical spoil board vacuum system does not make sense for a number of reasons. I recently learned about vacuum pods and am looking at trying to use them for some of our work instead of our current method of screwing jobs to a board from the bottom and then bolting the board down.
A typical job is solid laminated lumber planed on the side that is going down and our new machine will have a flat aluminum table with threaded inserts so we should get a pretty good seal. I am looking at sonething like this Vacuumpods.com "Buy a Better Pod for Less..." or this Flat Plate One Piece Vacuum Pod
If I were running 8-12 of these how many CFM/HP would I need? I would hope not that many as I am assuming the leakage is minimal compared to a spoil board system. My cycle times are hours long and I sometimes leave the machine running over night on finishing toolpaths so I would want as small a pump as possible. However I definitely don't want any movement of the part. I see on the NEMI site they have spikes available which is something I would definitely try.
A typical job is solid laminated lumber planed on the side that is going down and our new machine will have a flat aluminum table with threaded inserts so we should get a pretty good seal. I am looking at sonething like this Vacuumpods.com "Buy a Better Pod for Less..." or this Flat Plate One Piece Vacuum Pod
If I were running 8-12 of these how many CFM/HP would I need? I would hope not that many as I am assuming the leakage is minimal compared to a spoil board system. My cycle times are hours long and I sometimes leave the machine running over night on finishing toolpaths so I would want as small a pump as possible. However I definitely don't want any movement of the part. I see on the NEMI site they have spikes available which is something I would definitely try.