vacuum pump recommendations?

How are other systems alike/different from the Shark?

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Re: vacuum pump recommendations?

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Well I spent the last 2 weeks learning stuff. Here is my youtube video on that experience as I learned. So what you see is some of my tests and trials and learning. It was fun. Put up some great links to save money and time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO8fmJsEerw

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Please show a picture of it on your CNC in use. I assume you'd only be using it for carvings or where cutting through the material isn't required.

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Here is a video of making the cnc jig to be used for 5"x7" Award Plaques. Made the jig and then resurfaced 7 plaques with it using the vacuum pump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NqY3pNThFc

Here is a vcarve pro file on the pods. This file has some tool path associations issues as I was trying to use a template file to copy the toolpaths to the new sheet that had the different jig sizes.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e8F6nU ... share_link

Took the red 3dprinted pods and put them on my pump table for horizontal, vertical, and flat work. I don't have a video on that yet. Having fun. Found the sharkbite quick connects are superior to the cheaper versions but they are twice the price as the cheaper ones.

I am going to take some of my lantern kit jigs and canteen jigs and look into making a vacuum pod jig to hold the parts in them. Before mainly used screws into my jig boards (3 waste boards that are 1.75" thick.

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I like the way you do the positioning. Nice job.

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Put up a Vcarve Pro file crv that has 2 pod designs in it and a set of 4. These work great.
Vcarve 11.5 I could have modified them more to make them pretty but hey I figure I will chop in to them at some point or another.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e8F6nU ... share_link

Here is a shop update video with the pods in them and how I put the 3dprinted pods to use and some shop tips and things I have learned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZzdwd46wTQ

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