My 4 Motor Vacuum Setup

While waiting for our shipping date to arrive, my son and I, like most new users, agonized over all the details of electrical, vacuum, placement and layout of all the items necessary to running our Bot. We probably read every post on the TalkShopBot Forum concerning vacuum going back to 2005. After asking a …

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Dovetail and Mortise Jig

One of the things that we always had in mind for our ShopBot was to use its automation capabilities to replace some of the operations that we had previously outsourced.  Due to increasing lead times and decreasing quality, our first chore was to start in house manufacturing of the solid Maple Dovetail Drawers we …

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A PVC Vacuum Table Part 2: A little more on Plenum Design…

A plenum is little more than a few slots cut into a piece of material, but there are some options to consider when designing one for the first time. Start out your design with a size that is very close to your finish zone size so that any resizing is minimal before cutting. The …

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A PVC Vacuum Table

As a relative newcomer to the ShopBot community, let me first say I am honored to be asked to join the likes of my fellow columnists. I am sure that all of you respect them, and their opinions, as much as I do.

Over the next few months I will try to use my …

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