In this video I’ve spotted what appears to check all my boxes to manage the vacuum hose:
Specifically I am trying to make the first collection roll around with the whole rig on the shop so I don’t want to bungie to the ceiling… So it looks like in the video there is a flexible rod tied to the hose going to the back corner, any guidance on materials that have the right stiffness to keep the hose up but not be too rigid? I took a long walk around my local Lowes and came up empty handed.
Not a solution (well maybe) but I was doing some cleaning up around the compound the other day and found some old 70’s vintage fishing rods. One of them screwed into the handle using a hand tightenable nut so I saved that one with it’s handle to potentially be a flexible support for something in the future (I figured I’d machine up the matching threads using the existing threads as a sample).
I already shared my vacuum hose support (bungee-based) but something like a fiberglass rod might be a basis for a different. My first thought about this setup is that looks a lot like a typical fiberglass rod used for things like driveway reflectors (the kind you pound into the ground at the end of you driveway). If you go with one-piece fishing rod, you’ve got a range of stiffnesses to choose from depending on where you cut the rod. A piece of heatshrink tubing at each end finishes the raw cut end off nicely.
Make a block to hold the “base” end and Bob’s yer Uncle (or third cousin).
When I saw that I also thought of a fishing rod zip tied to the hose.
Also, multiple 1/8" fiberglass rods might also work, and allow you to adjust the rigidity / flexibility of the support by cutting them at different lengths so the bundle will be more rigid at the base and taper off as you get closer to the spindle.
As I recall @wmoy tested a bunch of badge retract reels and got average tension/pull settings on them and maybe even an Amazon link.
and he might know what was used in that video, esp. if you could provide a time index.
If you find your guide rod, look at these retractors from Amazon.
I obviously conflated @CrookedWoodTex and @wmoy — thank you for the correction.
6:04 looks like the best view, thanks!
@MadHatter The fishing rods sound like they might work perfectly, not sure why I didn’t think of those.