Cable Track Manager and vacuum shoe

[wcsg]

Anyone here have a recommendation for one of those Cable MGMT drag Chains for the Y & X axis?

I'm not able to use the stock plastic bow looking cable manager due to height restrictions

I have an older PRT Alpha and know there are quite a few of them.

I'm also looking for recommendations on vacuum shoes for a Columbo spindle, my old stock one has seen better days and has multiple cuts and holes where it's no longer efficient

Thanks Everyone!

[jerry_stanek]

Some people use the corrugated black pipe to run their cables through

[curtiss]

posted a few years back... still no problems....

Have only had this up and working for about a week, but I decided that a 7 foot overall height was a bit much for my six inch Z.

I placed some split shop-vac hose on a 1 x 1 aluminum c-channel from an old 6' wide vertical blind. Had to drill a few small bracket holes in the bot but such it goes.

The wires fit inside easily and the 110 from the router is taped to the outside of the hose and rides down into the channel. It takes a little E-Tape, but works very well so far. Some extra wire inside the curve makes the arch a bit stiffer.

Not quite e-chain, but seems to be OK for a town this size. Cost seems to be somewhere around $12.




http://www.talkshopbot.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=569&d=1484686241&thumb=1 (http://www.talkshopbot.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=569&d=1243559250)

[Robert Rickard]

Anyone here have a recommendation for one of those Cable MGMT drag Chains for the Y & X axis?

McMaster-Carr (https://www.mcmaster.com/#catalog/123/876/=16lx7an)

[barrowj]

I bought 2 from Amazon and snapped them together for my x axis https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00X77MT0M/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Joe

[Alan m]

i just put e chain on my x and y .
I havnt used it since