FOG, Thanks for the Boom Arm Advice

[kdzito]

I'm going to be the happy new owner of the Boom Arm as I placed my order today.  After mulling it over this past week and reading up on it here, I found too much evidence that I can't be/live without it.

The problems I had before and from what I see this will hopefully reduce/relieve the hose pull, tangles, and kinks:

1.  Planing - the hose couldn't rotate properly causing it to bind and kink, which pulled the planer, making me lose my grip and sent it falling to the floor.  Luckily the planer only had scuff marks.  This happened while I was planing the top of a door.  This was definitely one of my most frustrating moments and it happened to a new right out of the box EHL-65 planer.  After this incident, I tried using a chip collection bag, which created too much dust/chip leakage while trying to maintain a clean work area.

2.  Sanding - using the other hand for hose slack while keeping it off the work piece.

3.  Cutting - hose catching on the edges of the work table, guide rail, or off the work piece.

4.  Routing - this is another story as I'm still trying to get comfortable with using the dust hood and chip catcher.

I've also kinked my 36mm hose to the point where it caused a permanent crease, which keeps it from being true to round.

 

[NVA_WW]

I've been enjoying my boom arm.  I ended up getting a larger diameter hose and getting a 27mm adapter from Bob Marino.

 

[tigger]

Hi NVA_WA

I'm sure you have tried this but I'll mention it anyway just in case someone else is having a similar problem. I have the boom arm for the workshop - really cool to have, but on site.....
What I do is hang the hose around my neck to keep it off the work-piece. I.e. I stand with my ctm33 behind me, run the hose under my left arm and around my neck to fall over my right shoulder. This way when I work with my Trion Jigsaw, for example, I can clamp the hose under my left arm and leave a nice loose hose around my neck to prevent it from pulling the back of the saw.

 

[kdzito]

Hi NVA_WA

I'm sure you have tried this but I'll mention it anyway just in case someone else is having a similar problem. I have the boom arm for the workshop - really cool to have, but on site.....
What I do is hang the hose around my neck to keep it off the work-piece. I.e. I stand with my ctm33 behind me, run the hose under my left arm and around my neck to fall over my right shoulder. This way when I work with my Trion Jigsaw, for example, I can clamp the hose under my left arm and leave a nice loose hose around my neck to prevent it from pulling the back of the saw.

Ha, funny thing as I've tried something similar as I just ran the hose over the back of my neck with it starting on the opposite shoulder that I held the sander with.  Kind of made the hose into a yoke.  This worked okay for sanding, but hard for planing with accuracy.

 

[joec]

I just received the CT33 with boom arm. I also bought the Dust Deputy from Oneida that was made for the Festool vacs. The cyclone blocks the tool holder and with a 180 degree turn as the only option for mounting the tool holder, I now have to turn the vac around to use the back tool holder. Anyone else have this and solved this problem? I am new to these tools, maybe something stupid on my part. I only use one tool, for now, so just one tool holder will work, for now.