Vacuum Dolly

Shop Fun

Shop furniture is the best place to practice. In this case it was practice with dowels, rods, and other round things.

Under Construction

Lots of holes and circles

Cyclone Upgrade

The shop vac worked well enough, but it was always getting clogged and was quite the mess to clean. I decided to do an upgrade to the cyclone separator, and added a HEPA filter to keep the air clean. But once you do that, you also need a way to move it around the shop.

I went with the low profile for this vacuum dolly, cause if you make the vertically stacked kind, it would have a strong tendency to topple. Which, with me in my shop, it was guaranteed to happen every time I used it.

More holes and circles

Maple Rods

This is the dolly from the other side.

Yah know, I was going to insert some cute lyrics from the Louis Armstrong song, “Hello Dolly”, but I looked them up and the lyrics are a tad misogynistic and creepy. Eek.

In Production

This gets a lot of use in the shop. It hasn’t fallen over on me yet, but there is still time.

Loaded up and put to work

Materials

• Plywood from KJP Select Hardwoods
• Big maple dowels
• Lee Valley casters