Mary Fisher wrote:

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Hi,
I'm planning to make up an adapter to connect a vacuum cleaner to my
Trend router table. I have a plastic bottle with the base cut off
which goes over the circular port at the back of the fence. The vacuum
nozzle needs to be held and to seal in the over-wide neck of the
bottle.

I'm thinking of using Fimo, the bakeable polymer modelling clay to
make an object that replaces the screw-top of the bottle. This would
be something much more substantial that the nozzle can be held
securely in. Has anyone ever used Fimo or any similar mouldable
material to construct detailed (coarse threaded) parts for jigs and
fixtures?

I would prefer to use something a bit more businesslike than Fimo if
such material exists and someone would be kind enough to tell me what
it is.

Have you thought of a flexible medium like meltable vinyl rubber (e.g.
Gelflex)? If you get it wrong you can re-use it. Baked Fimo can break.

We made some reproduction old blood bottles for TV using Gelflex as the
moulding medium, they were threaded.

This might not be what you wanted, sorry if I've misunderstood.

Mary



I wanted to make a similar device for my router table. I took my
existing vacuum cleaner hose to a dealer ( at our local market as it
happened ). He sells all sorts of third-party hoses, bags and
accessories for vacuum cleaners.

I bought a crevice tool that fitted my hosepipe and then cut the end off
and used a Liquid Metal sort of material to join it to the dust
collection arrangement that I'd built for the table. I would imagine
that even Gaffer tape would have done the job reasonably well.

It was cheap, effective and very serviceable. It even looks OK too.