I own a Camaster Signpro, it has a phenolic top on which I have glued a ULDF top on it and have a Hurricane vacuum attached.

Quite often, I do 3D carvings and just cannot run the vacuum for 6 - 10 hours straight... Instead I've been using the masking tape and superglue method. This works fairly well, but often it is very difficult to get the completed piece off of the table. So I have been looking into possibly attaching vacuum pods to the top maybe by putting a piece of melamine on top of the ULDF and attaching the pods to it. I'll lose some height, but I have 8" of Z height and most of the carvings are 1 - 3"

Something along the line of what greenbvc.com sells.

I was just wondering if anyone has any experience with these or other vacuum pods. I've seen some that are alum, but those worry me with the bits hitting them.

Anyone have thoughts on how to attach them to they can be swapped out when I do sheet work.


Any thoughts would be great.

Thanks, Tony