matt_isserstedt
Diamond
- Joined
- Dec 15, 2003
- Location
- suburbs of Ann Arbor, MI, USA
This is not that novel but worked out better than I could have imagined.
Just a brainstorm from trying to clean up "Stuff" I've abandoned here and there over the last 5-10 years.
I had this 1 gallon shop vac stashed in a corner. Its useful but is so damn tippy, it needs a counterweight so its not always on its side.
But I went 1 more step and mounted it right to the shaper-ram of the Bridgeport. I already had the 5/8-11 post for the DRO arm, so I just machined a slip collar that welds to an arm + sheetmetal bracket to engage the sides of the mini vac. Hammer, fit, file, weld, bend, file...
While you can see my mill table is a giant pile of ferrous debris, the little vac is speficially for cleaning the vise between parts. Saves a lot of time going to find the vac in one of 3 rooms, carrying it thru, finding spare power plug. This is right there, flip switch and grab hose = very fast. Dedicated 120vac power is overhead in my case. After a couple of parts I was like, wow, why didn't I do this sooner...?!?
Hope all are healthy and safe out there!
Just a brainstorm from trying to clean up "Stuff" I've abandoned here and there over the last 5-10 years.
I had this 1 gallon shop vac stashed in a corner. Its useful but is so damn tippy, it needs a counterweight so its not always on its side.
But I went 1 more step and mounted it right to the shaper-ram of the Bridgeport. I already had the 5/8-11 post for the DRO arm, so I just machined a slip collar that welds to an arm + sheetmetal bracket to engage the sides of the mini vac. Hammer, fit, file, weld, bend, file...
While you can see my mill table is a giant pile of ferrous debris, the little vac is speficially for cleaning the vise between parts. Saves a lot of time going to find the vac in one of 3 rooms, carrying it thru, finding spare power plug. This is right there, flip switch and grab hose = very fast. Dedicated 120vac power is overhead in my case. After a couple of parts I was like, wow, why didn't I do this sooner...?!?
Hope all are healthy and safe out there!