Vac and Power Arm

This is my setup… Easy and works extremely well.

One problem I encountered with the dust boot was the ridges of the hose getting pressed up against the router mount. Unless the gantry was in the back half of the machine (pulling the hose away from the mount), the mount would hook in to the hose and cause slipping in the Z. I fixed that by using a solid 2.5" wand piece and a stand off block to hold it out from the mount. The only thing I’ve considered changing in my set up is to run 4" hose to the top of the wand. Or possibly building a dust boot that could handle a 4" hose. Probably overkill though, I get almost no dust left behind with the current system.

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