Make your own

[Bruce Page]

Since buying my Woodmaster drum sander last year, I have looked high & low for a DC connector that would fit both the Woodmaster and the female quick connect on my portable DC. I guess the Woodmaster is designed to have a hose connected permanently to it but I live in a mobile base/quick connect world. :rolleyes:

After buying a few plastic adapters, none of which would fit the 4” OD straight tube on the sander, I decided to dust off the old Logan and make my own….

Now all I have to do is clean up the aluminum chips, they’re EVERYWHERE!

[Doug Shepard]

Very cool. But before you clean up the aluminum, you may as well get this built too http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=42783
:cool:

[Joe Chritz]

I never even thought of that. Did you start with tubing or solid (gasp!)? I need a few adapters for assorted items around the shop and have resorted to cobbling up some PVC fittings and the like.

I have access to a couple metal lathes, I may just have to do some of that myself. Very nice job.

Just what I needed another project to the list.

Joe

[Bruce Page]

Very cool. But before you clean up the aluminum, you may as well get this built too http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=42783
:cool:

I never did hear back from Mark. I have that thread bookmarked. Maybe one of these days...

[Bruce Page]

I never even thought of that. Did you start with tubing or solid (gasp!)? I need a few adapters for assorted items around the shop and have resorted to cobbling up some PVC fittings and the like.

I have access to a couple metal lathes, I may just have to do some of that myself. Very nice job.

Just what I needed another project to the list.

Joe
Joe, I made it from a piece of 4.5 X .5 wall tubing.
If you make one, the taper of the quick connect was 4* - at least on mine..

[David DeCristoforo]

Now that's a fitting!!!

YM

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Bruce.....You are talented and I'm jealous!

[Bruce Page]

Thanks Ken. It's pretty basic stuff if you have the right machines.

[Joe Mioux]

Huh!, and you keep telling everyone around here and there that you don't do "spinny stuff" :D

Bruce, that connector will probably work better than anything you could have found in plastic.

Very nice!

Joe