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   Jamie_Buxton | Oct 25, 2007 07:24am | #1

   My Woodsucker is mounted on a plywood stand.   The stand carries the weight of the thing down to the floor.   Near the top of the stand there is a compliant mount against the wall.  The mount is shop-fabricated, and uses foam insulation tubing as the compliance element.   The mount keeps the stand in place, but doesn't transmit vibration to the wall.

   The stand is pretty much a U-shaped plywood thing.  It is just big enough that the cyclone body fits inside it.   My chip bin is a plywood box the same size as the cyclone body, so it fits inside the U-shaped stand too.   All in all, the stand adds almost nothing to the footprint of the DC. 

   I assembled the DC to the stand while it was lying down, and then found two big guys to help stand the whole thing upright.

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   fseider | Oct 25, 2007 08:12am | #2

   Thanks Jamie, this sounds interesting and I think something I can easily handle.  I'm having a little trouble visualizing what you described.  Do you by any chance have a pic or a diagram?  That would go a long way.

   Thanks,

   Fred

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   Jamie_Buxton | Oct 25, 2007 06:41pm | #3

   I'll take some pics today.

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   Jamie_Buxton | Oct 26, 2007 02:37am | #4

   Here's two photos of my Woodsucker setup.   In the overview you can see the plywood stand which supports the weight of the Woodsucker.   It is construction plywood in a U-shape which wraps around the cyclone's diameter.   The left side goes up to near the top of the motor.  The right side stops just below the impellor housing.

   The other photo is a close-up of the compliant mount holding the stand to the wall.   On the top edge of the stand's back there is a piece of that flexible foam tube intended for insulating water pipes.   It is captured in a bracket which is lag-screwed to studs.   The bracket is a bunch of scrap wood piled together to form a channel to capture the foam.   The only thing the mount does is prevent the stand from walking away from the wall.  All the DC's weight is carried by the stand.

   In the overview shot, you can also see my chip bin.  It is plywood, and has a plastic window in the front so I can see at a glance whether the bin is getting full.

    

   
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   WillGeorge | Oct 26, 2007 02:56am | #5

   Nice setup!

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   fseider | Oct 26, 2007 05:42am | #6

   Jamie, This is EXACTLY what I need!  Thanks for your time, this is much appreciated.  I'll be making the same thing.  Any afterthoughts or additional suggestions that came up after you were all said and done with it?

   Thanks again!

   Fred

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   Jamie_Buxton | Oct 26, 2007 11:49pm | #8

   Fred --

     No, the setup works pretty much the way I expected it to.

     Well, okay, I'd use different casters under the chip bin.   I used odd ones which look like a big ball bearing.   They don't work very well, but not so much that I've gotten around to changing them out.

    

          Jamie

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   fseider | Oct 27, 2007 12:35am | #9

   Jamie, I talked to my son and he's going to mod this little.  He's going to welding school and needs a project.  So we'll be taking your design and putting some more steel to it.  Overkill can't hurt, right? :)

   Thanks again,

   Fred

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   Dave45 | Oct 26, 2007 08:44pm | #7

   Look into Uni Strut.  It's a "U" shaped piece of metal channel stock with holes for attaching it to walls.  They have all kinds of ingenious clips for attaching stuff to the channel stock.  It's used by the mile in industrial facilities.

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   douglas2cats | Oct 27, 2007 01:46am | #10

   I used vibration isolators from McMaster-Carr

   http://gallery.clearvuecyclones.com/Dougs-Mini-CV1400/Install1r mo

   Scroll thru the 9th pic for the smaller ones under the motor mount board. 

   If you build it he will come.