With my recent upgrade to a Record Power Coronet Envoy Lathe
I have been reorganising my “workshop” to try and make it more efficient. I say
workshop, but it is really my garage, and things are arranged such that work
surfaces collapse and the bandsaw and other equipment all slot away to allow
the car to fit back in the garage when needed (although since retirement, the
tendency is to leave the workshop set up for woodturning more often than not!).
One of pieces of equipment I have never been comfortable
with is my dust collection system; its not the actual equipment (Record Power
Cam Vac), but how to arrange/ secure the 100mm dia flexible hose. Because this new
lathe has a swivel head I need to be able to adjust the position of the hose to
best suit where the work is.
I had previously made a Heath-Robinson stand to support the
hose, but it was never very stable and was more trouble than it was worth.
So I started looking at proprietary equipment that wasn’t
too expensive and offered the flexibility I was after.
There are lots of angle poise type stands and other flexible
stands on the market designed to hold smart phones or tablets etc, and I was
tempted by some of these; but I was worried these would not be robust enough to
support hose (its reasonably heavy, and the construction makes it act like an
extended spring).
So I opted for an articulated bracket designed for a
portable TV, which I was sure I could adapt to suit the hose.
Here is the TV bracket kit and it partially assembled.
I now had to devise a way to mount the bracket while giving
me as wide a range of coverage as I could get. The Record Power Coronet Envoy
has a built-in shelf under the lathe bed that I had hoped to make use of, but
unfortunately it wasn’t the right height. But a couple of bits of timber
screwed to the wall and an adjacent shelf worked out fine.
Then to attach the hose to the bracketry I bolted the plate
designed to mount the TV directly to the dust collection hood, this could then
be slotted on to the articulated bracket:
Now the articulated arms of the bracket together with the
ability to tilt the angle of the hood, and the up & down adjustments of the
whole arm means I can now position the hose to suit the majority of my turning
positions.
And it has provided a suitable place for me to mount my
magnetic lamp.
Unfortunately, the arm is not long enough to position the
hose when I have the lathe head fully rotated through 90 degrees; but it is
simple enough to unclip the hose and hood from the bracketry, which then allows
me to route the hose across the lathe bed and support it on the redundant banjo/
tool rest.
So all in all a satisfactory result
Now I just need to go and make something else on the lathe!
