Home-made Foredom Stand

[John Van Domelen]

Home-made Foredom Stand


I was wanting to take a pic of the stand I built, but the studio has been a mess of late. I 'lost' one of my new Typhoon bits right in the middle of working on a piece. I figured that I blew it on the floor with compressed air. Anyway, after much vacuuming, and checking the waste cans with a big magnet, I of course found the cutter in the back of the bit box... but the studio got cleaned, so I snapped a pic of the hanger.

I did not like the commercial units - too flimsy. I made this one from Home Depot pipe.

shopping list (all 1/2 pipe fittings:

1 floor flange
2 12 inch lengths pipe
2 5 inch length pipe
1 T fitting
1 coupler fitting
2 end caps

Parts were under 20 bucks and it will last forever.

 

[Ronald D. Black]

Very nice! "Imagination is the mother of invention", or perhaps in this case four trips to the store is. Enjoy using it.
Ron

 

[Rick Taylor]

John,
Very nicely done! Economical and it even looks good!
Rick

 

[Steve Worcester]

Looks like you buy Foredoms like chucks. Don't want to change a handpiece, so get another tool.

 

[John Van Domelen]

Guilty...

Ebay -I have four Foredoms and a knock-off brand - don't wanna be dead in the water if I snap a flexshaft, the 1/4 burrs push these tools, though they don't complain, but a catch could snap the cable. Besides, I paid less than the cost of a new one for all of these.