What are some of your shop tips and tricks?

[ASD20]

Originally Posted by ctt956

Holding a vacuum cleaner nozzle near a drill(or anything) is a great way to make cleanup easy and keep dust out of your robot, but what if you need both hands to drill and don't have someone to hold the vacuum? Just clamp the vacuum nozzle near your work area with a quick clamp. This works well on bench vises, as you can clamp the vacuum hose to the vise and direct it to the workpiece. Just don't put too much force on the clamp, it doesn't take a lot for this.

Another vacuum tip: If you need to clean the PVC shavings out of a piece of PVC pipe, close off one end (your leg works great for this) and seal the other end with the shop vac. Works great

Originally Posted by ctt956

Power strips can be good, as they provide an additional switch that can turn off equipment quickly if necessary. In a way, they prevent too many power tools in one area as they'll probably trip. If you use them, make the switch easily accessible should it be needed in an emergency.

Get these. Just the first one I found. There are much cheaper ones.

[ctt956]

Originally Posted by ASD20

Get these. Just the first one I found. There are much cheaper ones.

Those look like they'd be great! I've never seen those with the built-in breakers! Or maybe I have, I just didn't notice the breaker.