Compressed air at the lathe: where to place it?

[Mark Jundanian]

Mine's pretty fancy - you may not want to go to this much trouble
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I jammed a length of copper pipe in a spare nozzle and added some duct tape.

View attachment 71739Mine is just a quickly turned wooden adapter that fits the standard shop vac hose and has a piece of 1/2 PEX plastic pipe hot glued into it. The PEX is a little too long and I keep forgetting to cut it off.

That looks good for dust. Do those long small nozzles get clogged up with chips?

 

[Dean Center]

A couple of people (@Bill Alston @Curt Fuller ) have mentioned making/buying small diameter adapters for shop vacuums to get dust out of hollow forms. Does anyone have an example or reference?

Look for 'computer attachments' or 'small attachments' sized for shop vacs. Like these:

 

[Lowell Fuher]

I'd say well done using metallic on everything, and grounding it all, to boot! I'm guessing you either are an electrician, or followed the advice of a good one. Buy this man a beer!

Steve, does having been a building engineer fit that qualification? Coors Light please.

 

[Dave Landers]

That looks good for dust. Do those long small nozzles get clogged up with chips?

Mine will clog right at the end, so I just take it out of the hollow form and yank off the chips. Still gets the chips out
Usually only a problem for wet side-grain forms where you get long curls.

 

[Curt Fuller]

That looks good for dust. Do those long small nozzles get clogged up with chips?

Occasionally but just at the tip.

 

[Steve Tiedman]

Steve, does having been a building engineer fit that qualification? Coors Light please.

Sure! One Coors Light, coming right up.

 

[Bill Alston]

I made an adapter to use some stainless steel tube in the nozel for my shop vac. It gets used for all sorts of things including vacuum sealing.