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TIPS AND TECHNIQUES

#& x Vz" Fh woodscrew

#& x 21/2" woodscrew

2" x 9" PVC PIPE

A When working in tight places, Bob Lee of Miami, FL uses a simple trick to thread a nut on a bolt. He carpet-tapes the nut to his finger.

A It's easy for Chris Glowacki of

West Des Moines, IA to tote boards from the lumberyard. He bundles them together with "cling wrap."

A To keep short dowel plugs from rolling off his band saw table, Keith Mulford of Arlington Hts., IL "corrals" them with a strip of duct tape.

Dust Pick-Up

Caulking Tube Storage

the body. To keep the clamps from slipping off, I drilled a hole in each one and attached it with a screw.

Jim Vasi Williamsville, New York

■ I usually have several tubes of caulking lying around the shop. But I can't always find the one I need.

To keep the caulking tubes handy, I made a simple storage rack. All it takes is a piece of plywood and some short lengths of PVC pipe. The plywood serves as a back. And the pieces of pipe act as storage compartments for the tubes, see drawing.

I cut a "window" in each piece of pipe. This lets me see the tube I need at a glance.

To make sure the tubes stay put, the pieces of pipe mount to the back at a slight angle. Two screws (a short one and a long one) secure each pipe to the back. The long

rew also keeps the caulking tube >m falling out of the lower end of e pipe.

Daniel L. O'Neal Shrewsbury, Missouri

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up close to the spinning workpiece, see photo at right.

Basically it consists of two parts: a body that supports the hose and a post (dowel) that fits into the casting for the tool rest, see drawing.

To quickly position the hose on the body, there's a V-shaped groove in the top edge. And the post is glued into a hole drilled in the bottom edge of the body.

The vacuum hose is held in place by a pair of automotive hose clamps that wrap around the curved ends of

post (1" x 1" dowel)

body (3" x 6")

□ Whenever I sand a workpiece on the lathe, my shop gets filled with a cloud of wood dust. To prevent this, I made a simple dust pick-up that holds the hose on my shop vacuum

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