Vacuum hose guide rod?

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If you find your guide rod, look at these retractors from Amazon.

Dust hose routing with gas strut

Couldn’t help it. Had to get some specs on these retractable keychain gadgets. So, I got my grandson involved in the formal test. He’s 12 now, going on impatient, but I managed to throw in a digital scale that I’d been hiding from him which allowed his current psyche to control him just a bit. (The scale has a small piece counter function that I’ll hold back on for a while.) [IMG_0453] What we found was interesting at least. On the two that I bought, they consistently held magnetically at ov…