Good morning everyone,
just wanted to pick your brain.
I'm thinking of building a little "power tools station" in a corner of my garage, hooking several power tools (that would never run at the same time) to an extension lead plugged into the Power Take Off of a small shopvac so that all I have to do is connect the vacuum hose to the tool I'm about to use.
I know the recommendation is to never daisy-chain several extension leads (the PTO of the shopvac would effectively be one) but is it really unsafe? Considering that the hooked tools are all small and with low-power motors - a disc and belt sander, a bench grinder, a pillar drill, a small band saw and a small lathe.
And how unsafe would it be to take it one step further:
- hooking the drill press and the bench grinder to an extension lead
- connect the extension lead to a VFD (I haven't looked at all the ins and outs of this yet or checked if it even is possible with my tools)
- plug the VFD into the extension lead with all the other tools
- connect the extension lead into the PTO of the shopvac?
It'd be extremely useful to have a dial (the same dial) to add variable speed capabilities to the grinder and to control the speed of the drill press without having to change the belts.
Interested to know your thought.
Dom.
just wanted to pick your brain.
I'm thinking of building a little "power tools station" in a corner of my garage, hooking several power tools (that would never run at the same time) to an extension lead plugged into the Power Take Off of a small shopvac so that all I have to do is connect the vacuum hose to the tool I'm about to use.
I know the recommendation is to never daisy-chain several extension leads (the PTO of the shopvac would effectively be one) but is it really unsafe? Considering that the hooked tools are all small and with low-power motors - a disc and belt sander, a bench grinder, a pillar drill, a small band saw and a small lathe.
And how unsafe would it be to take it one step further:
- hooking the drill press and the bench grinder to an extension lead
- connect the extension lead to a VFD (I haven't looked at all the ins and outs of this yet or checked if it even is possible with my tools)
- plug the VFD into the extension lead with all the other tools
- connect the extension lead into the PTO of the shopvac?
It'd be extremely useful to have a dial (the same dial) to add variable speed capabilities to the grinder and to control the speed of the drill press without having to change the belts.
Interested to know your thought.
Dom.
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