For the longest time I was just putting the vac hose through a hole of a cover plate I made to fill the opening in the back, but it never worked very well.
Last night it came to me me when I saw one of my pumps laying around that had the perfect tubing for a vac hose. I have quite a few of these pumps so I didn't mind robbing the hose off one of them.
The plywood attachment that's mounted on top of the gantry was cut out on the pp as well. I have a little 1hp Shopvac that I just taped the hoses together for now.
I did a little bit of cutting to see how it works and I'm very pleased.
Here's the pics.

Pump I robbed the hose off of.


Inside of the pp.


Outside showing the cover plate.
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shaun, looks good man...hey are those the 5/8 linear rods? randy.

 

Nope not yet. :roll:
C'mon man you know how long it took me to put those latches on. :mrgreen:

 

yea, i hear ya bud...anything that cuts into our flyin time, i hate doin....gonna try to get some Michigan fall aerial photos tomorrow when i maiden the stryker and trainer builds..randy.

 

This is one mod that really sucks. Really

Nice job Shaun! Is the hose attached to the ply plate with glue?

 

Nope. I was going to but found it didn't need any. That end of the flex pipe had a ridge going around the outside of it so it couldn't pop through the wood mount. On the bottom mount I secured it with a little upward pressure so it would not slip out of the upper mount.