martin felder
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Thanks for the suggestions. On the eyebolt-cable, if I understand correctly, it would be like as shown by the yellow line in this picture.
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My take on that is that it certainly would add support to the area of the mounting bracket and the first arm at a very low cost and would take 5-10 minutes to install. That would be an option I will mention when I post detailed plans. More support is a good thing.
A boom arm can be mounted at any height, but my personal opinion is that the bottom of the boom arm should be around 6ft 8 inches to 7 ft above the floor so (unless you are super tall) so it is well above your head but you can reach up easily to move it without only moving it using the hose coming down. That means the top of the mounting bracket would be getting close to 8 from the floor. Adding this support is only possible for those with very high ceilings. Fortunately, the boom arm we made does not seem to need that additional support to function nicely without sagging and that creates more universal appeal. Hopefully that will be the case with the even easier to make version I will be working on when I get the new gear.
On the other suggestion, not exactly picturing what is being suggested. If it is a different option for the mounting bracket, any more details would be helpful. For what is being used now, we have 2 commercially available parts from Grainger bolted to an angle piece that mounts to the wall with a rod going vertically. Thanks.
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My take on that is that it certainly would add support to the area of the mounting bracket and the first arm at a very low cost and would take 5-10 minutes to install. That would be an option I will mention when I post detailed plans. More support is a good thing.
A boom arm can be mounted at any height, but my personal opinion is that the bottom of the boom arm should be around 6ft 8 inches to 7 ft above the floor so (unless you are super tall) so it is well above your head but you can reach up easily to move it without only moving it using the hose coming down. That means the top of the mounting bracket would be getting close to 8 from the floor. Adding this support is only possible for those with very high ceilings. Fortunately, the boom arm we made does not seem to need that additional support to function nicely without sagging and that creates more universal appeal. Hopefully that will be the case with the even easier to make version I will be working on when I get the new gear.
On the other suggestion, not exactly picturing what is being suggested. If it is a different option for the mounting bracket, any more details would be helpful. For what is being used now, we have 2 commercially available parts from Grainger bolted to an angle piece that mounts to the wall with a rod going vertically. Thanks.