By no means is this suggestion cheap or easy...I'm having a new mounting bracket fabricated for an air drill.
Yes, it bumps everything out a few inches farther than the stock mount, and yes I will probably not be able to drill at the far end of my workspace BUT, the alternative is not attractive either.
We needed both an air drill and the Kent dust shoe. On the backside of the gantry we have a small shoebox size HeNe laser tube transformer mounted and over the past year we've had numerous close calls when the dust collection hose has actually snagged on the transformer case while the spindle was traversing back and forth on the Y axis. It was an occasional problem but occasionally it was a HUGE problem and one that we needed to be solved.
I don't have the bracket in-house yet but it should work great once we get it and all of the other pieces and parts installed. It is modeled after the stock mount but instead of cutting all of the voids in the metal we opted to make the entire thing out of aluminum.
Will post pics when it is all assembled!! Keeping our fingers crossed!!
Nicholas Traub
Principal Graphic Designer
Director of Traveling Exhibitions
Traub Design Associates, Inc.
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