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How’s your Vac hose being routed?
Personally like how clean drag chains like this look. However, since I have Vac hose running along X and Y, am leaning towards no dragchain 
, and instead velcro/ziptie strapping power/wiring/mister to Vac hose, that rest in a trough/gutter setup inspired by @bitingmidge’s LR3 build.
My LR3 4’ usable X would occasionally end up with Vac-Wiring bundle snagging on Vac hose clips.
Has been less of an issue on my LR4’s smaller 2’ usable X. If snagging bothers me again, will consider fully sleeving Vac+Wiring using large protector sheath, and/or, Peter trough or K5 gutter setup.
Cycling X to min and max the wire loom droops so much I’m worried about it snagging. The vac hose not being held at the edge is bothering me too - it slides off towards the floor then at the opposite end of travel it has to ‘pull’ the hose back again.
edit: bonding the wiring loom to the hose just makes it twist and kink more and looks even more likely to snag.
Why isn’t it tied to the braces?
My hose doesn’t move through the entire range of motion. It should be tied to the beam all the way up to the extent of the bend
He also made a hose bump to help keep it off the belt as it falls
My hose setup along Y axis looks like 
, Peter’s Y axis trough is nicest I’ve seen. Wondered whether Vac can fit along Y axis in the dead zone (between X Max and Rail) to avoid wider table footprint, but haven’t figured out a way that avoids compromising my almost torsion box.
How? There’s no slots in the braces or hose hooks to attach cable ties.
I’m printing the hose bump as we speak.
Zip tie around the hose and through one of the big holes in the braces.
With the zip tie between 2 of the wires in the hose, it can’t slide.
I only have 1 zip tie on mine, and it hasn’t moved at all
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I can’t do that - I have covers between the braces.
I wonder if a remix of the braces with cable tie channels is worth doing? Ack, who am I kidding I’m not going to reprint and replace them all now 
Now I think of it I do have some of these somewhere - I could put a pilot hole in the braces and mount them.
The Drag cable mounts are done so I’ll try that first.
Yeah that would be a lot easier.
In that case, it sounds like covers created the problem. Sounds like your mod needs a mod to account for that.
I’m not sure drilling into a structural part of the plastic braces is a good idea
The only issue with that, is these things are not held in super tight. The weight of the hose pulling on it might yank them out.
You might need to glue them in place for it to hold the hose
Why not just Dremel out a small area of the covers on each side of the brace to allow the zip ties to pass through?
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Even if I didn’t have covers I wouldn’t be happy with cable tying the hose cross ways like that, it looks bodged. Especially when everything else is so well routed and finished.
Aza that looks like a great solution. If they’re too loose in the slot a piece of tape would work fine to shim them into being snug. Or m3 hole and set screw would work too.
Should be an easy remix even from the STL and a quick print so I’ll give it a whirl.
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To each their own, but I wouldn’t say my machine “looks bodged” because of a zip tie on the dust hose.
It’s meant to be functional, and it is.
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fwiw shared minor edit on v1engineering-mods/lowrider4/mods/vac-hose at main · aaronse/v1engineering-mods · GitHub am not sharing on printables or elsewhere, in part because am not using the slot even… A combo of Gravity, friction, careful placement of zipties and narrower gap between braces seem to be good enough, even with this floppy Vac hose.
Full disclosure: I haven’t racked up many hours on my LR4, yet. Have been away and tied up with other stuff.
Appreciate this and related Vac topics, hopefully have enough activation energy and time to fix this janky vac setup…
It just takes a little creativity to get the hose to look the way you want. I spend considerable time getting the twist and zip tie locations just right so everything sits just where I want it to at all positions.
If you take a close look at how the braces are made and what they are doing you will see a large zip tie hole is not a good idea. But if you take a couple tied together, you make it look real nice like this.
Over the hose twice and under the brace twice.
Doing it this way, lets a hose fit in there real nice without sacrificing print quality of the braces.
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