Shop-Vac support/holding arm?

Didn't I see a small kid in one of your pictures? :-)

Google on "dust extractors" or "fume extractors". Wear diapers.

GWE

Ignoramus12015 wrote:

He is afraid of anything that makes noises.

My son is a great dust extractor as far as dust on the floor is concerned... He extracts it and accumulates on his clothing.

i

I would think you could cobble something up in about 15 minutes to do that. The base and upright from a floor lamp, a sliding clamp with an arm, ring at the end of arm for the vac hose.....

Buy him a set of sound deadening earmuffs and play airplane pilot with him?

Jon

How about a flex arm from a desk lamp? Clamp to the workpiece or on a suitably heavy base. I've seen soldering fume extractors that are basically the same thing.

The hose is too heavy for those gooseneck lamps.

I think that indeed, I will make something out of wood clamps and some metal pieces.

i

Kind of like this ?

I've had one of these. It is really made for a dust collector with 4" hose, but a good shop vac should suffice/ You can take it and place it for example, behind a pneumatic Drum and let it pick up the stuff that wants to fly in the air.

Chris L

Sorry, I didn't include WHERE it was available.....

Chris L

I built one using a combination of parts from a couple sources. You'll need a set of Loc-Line vacuum hose fittings (Woodcraft Supply sells them, as do other places). That's a start, but you still need a way to hang onto it. I use a gooseneck from ShopSmith, their Utility Vacuum Extension, #555582. This has a small mounting plate that I've bolted to my mill (one on each side actually), and the gooseneck slips on to the plate. You could just use the ShopSmith widget to start, but I like the added reach & the pointy nozzle from Loc-Line. The hardware isn't exactly cheap, but it works great.

Doug White

--IIRC there's something on sale in the Woodcraft catalog. Lotsa this sort of thing on the woodworking side..