tubing for suction system?

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tubing for suction system?

Post: # 12747Unread post piaptk
Mon Feb 14, 2011 2:03 am

What kind of tubing does everyone use for their suction system? I was using clear rubber tubing, but it seemed like the static built up pretty bad, so I switched to (i think) vinyl medical tubing (WAY more expensive), but it seems like things still get stuck inside of it. I can generally clear it by stretching it and breaking up the blockage, but it's a pain because it happens pretty much every record...... any advice?

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Post: # 12749Unread post fraggle
Mon Feb 14, 2011 2:35 am

hmm i used to have that when i used a normal vacuum cleaner which is a real pain.
can you see moisture building up inside?
i had that problem for a while..
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Post: # 12750Unread post piaptk
Mon Feb 14, 2011 3:54 am

I'm using a pump which I assume was specifically designed for a lathe... it came from a guy that was selling VMS70 stuff... it is definitely designed to be used with a swarf jar, because it doesn't have any kind of bag system to hold the stuff being sucked in. It's just a particle board box with a vacuum inside... relatively low noise.

I'm also cutting plastic, and as I cut, it generally doesn't suck it up until a small clump of plastic has accumulated, then it gets pulled up in the tube, which seems to be part of the problem.

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Post: # 12759Unread post petermontg
Mon Feb 14, 2011 11:52 am

there was a post before about putting talcum powder down the tube first
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Post: # 12761Unread post cymbalism
Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:51 pm

It could be due to the angle of the chip nozzle being vertical in correlation to the poly chip and static. My vacuum set up is a little shop vac attached to a chip jar and clear plastic tubing going to a brass nozzle which is at a 45 degree angle up then perfectly horizontal near the stylus and I don't have any swarf issues. I replace the tubing once it starts getting gunked up but that's usually after a few months of swarf accumulation.
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Post: # 12766Unread post piaptk
Mon Feb 14, 2011 1:13 pm

Yeah, good call, Tommie. My setup is pretty ghetto and just has the tubing kind of slackedly snaking down off the lathe and up into the swarf jar.

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Mon Feb 14, 2011 2:52 pm

Latex surgical tubing here. It has a very slick interior and can be kind of hard to cut, but not many problems. Used talcum once.

Check this link:
http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/item.aspx?itemid=24741&catid=623

Hope this helps.
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Post: # 12772Unread post piaptk
Mon Feb 14, 2011 9:18 pm

concretecowboy71 wrote:Latex surgical tubing here. It has a very slick interior and can be kind of hard to cut, but not many problems. Used talcum once.

Check this link:
http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/item.aspx?itemid=24741&catid=623

Hope this helps.
Yeah, that is the stuff I'm using already. I think it's just because I don't have verything set up right. I think if I realign everything it will work better.

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