Shop Vac Holder Arm For Drill

[Jigantor]

At the end of every week I spend some time cleaning up the workshop.
Two areas that need most attention are the band saw and the drill press. The band saw is a lost cause so I turned my gaze on the drill press.
My workshop is only small and there are a lot of things crammed into it. That said to clean up around the drill press I have to move lots of stuff out from under it. I rang Hafco and Carbatec to see if I could buy a holding arm that would bolt onto my drill press, but was told that they did not sell anything like that.
I rigged some wire to hold the vac nozzle and found out that it picks up 98% of swarf. The other 2% flies off into outer space.
I hand sketched a design on my iPad and picked up the ali sections I needed to make a start on reducing clean up time.

Ji

[Jigantor]

Fab,fab,fab

Ji

[Jigantor]

Finished and works great.
I can point the nozzle anyway I like.
Perfect.

Ji

[three turbos]

Finished and works great.
I can point the nozzle anyway I like.
Perfect.

Ji

Hey man that looks great and looks like it serves its purpose, the best part is you could not find what you were looking for so you fabbed it yourself, AWESOME

[BD1]

Nice, that takes all the fun out of it . It's better trying to hold on to the vise, direct vacuum , and feed drill.

[Jigantor]

Hi Three Turbos,
Thanks for the kind words.
This should fit just about any drill press as they all have that central column.
I was expecting that someone would have sold something like this seeing how dust extraction is becoming more required.

Ji