KamuIndustries Vacuum Dog / MFT Workbench

Boys and Girls,

 

I was tossing up whether to post this as a project or a review… If you are reading this under REVIEW then it’s not the project or Miss Vicky Verka.

 

You are probably aware of a million different ways of holding small pieces, however, I hope that after reading this you’ll now know 1,000,001!

 

I came across this item on Lumberjocks, and fortunately the chap posted it as a project, otherwise I wouldn't have been made aware of it, as new reviews are no longer “in your face” like this was.

 

All my intimidated and bribed fans may be aware of my penchant for “air clamps”, however, more particularly my eternal quest for that ever smaller parts holding… primarily for sanding. 

 

The initial offering of,

 

is designed to slip into a 20mm MFT style dog hole, and if you’re a weirdo, a 3/4” imperial, dog buried do-do is also catered for. The kit comes with a 72mm x 115mm ID “seal” pad, which seemed OK for larger holdings

(does have an ingenious way of balancing out longer pieces with extra “outrigger” pad),

 

however, that setup did not entice my juices for small parts.

In the past I made my own non-slip cookies 

from a sheet of neoprene rubber (and pine),

which got me thinking. Maybe a smaller packing seal, might be the answer.

Without dragging out my story which would be bolstered by some vino drinking, meat pie warming (not frozen due,  to dodgy fridge) and Vegemite devouring, several visits to the loo and fighting of SWMBO’s abuse, I CorelDraw’d something to laser cut as a pilot exercise,

 

Down to the workshop and connecting the dogs with some purchase Nitto hardware and 8mm hose,

 

connected it up to my air vacuum pump,

 

and for the sake of RC, alternatively my Grabo,

placed the new packer around a MFT style dog hole, that one of these gizmos was pushed up into,

The dog has a self-tightening collar that expands a rubber ring that locks it securely (air tight) into any conveniently placed 20mm dog hole and then loosely place the rubber spacer over the hole,

turn on the vacuum and slapper a small piece of thin, hardwood timber

no, over the spacer,

Now that sucked and I could now tackle it with your ROS.  You can compare the size of the Mirka 

to evaluate the size of that tiny piece that I managed to sand on both sides.

I conducted another life endangering manoeuvre, but you’ll just have to wait for me to publish my next project. 

 

I bought my supply from this Etsy site… they are not necessarily cheap, but how much is convenience worth to you... they are on sale for about another 2 weeks at time of publishing this thread.