Vacuum Pick Up

[joe]

I've made several vacuum pick ups over the years and one issue for me has been the flexable skirt, brush. I think I've found a product which will do very nicely. It's a rubber boot material which goes on the bottom of garage doors. I found it at Lowes and it comes in about 15' legnths. It's rather thin and easily wraps around my pickup. The depth is about 3' which could be clipped very easily.

I got the idea from the Alpha machine pickup. Aside from the color it looks very much the same.

[cnc_works]

My skirt is made out of tire inner tube material, much the same as the garage door seal. The only other easily available material that worked fairly well was mouse pad, it was flexible, but resisted being sucked in. It didn't last long enough, though.

Donn