Hello all hope your having a great day
I own a cnc flat table and i got a big project about 600 interior doors that need to be made i have an aggregate for making the door hing and locks but i need to find a way to elevate the doors so the aggregate wont hit the spoilboard i wont to me my own pods i dont want to buy them any idea will be much appreciated
thank you kind people

I have made vac pods for my flat bed using 25 mm pvc.

You can make tooling or you can make doors. Think about it. Add one dollar to the price of each door and you have the budget for good quality cups on your doorstep tomorrow.

Hello jerry can u share a picture of this cups if possible

Thank you tom but i like to create stuff and i buying will be my last resort

Here is a pic of one of my pods

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Here is a picture of a few I have made to give you some other ideas. I am sure you will have a table with internal vacuum, but the pods will still give you some ideas. You need to think about the spacing between your grid squares and then look at the different door sizes and stile dimensions. I have built a few that have a split top so the top can move one grid square easily.

Having built quite a few of these and going thru different iterations I too would suggest you buy some from someone like Nemi or BVC.

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I cant tell you how many times a month or year we get phone calls at BVC only to have a customer crying because his part flew off the machine. Or worse, flying off and hitting your operator. BVC has cups you can run over with a fork lift and they still work like new. Drop one of your plastic or wood cups and likely it will not work again.Not to mention foam gasket is a pain in the you know what. Alexi I do understand your thought process. In fact I too would probably give it a go, but what these guys are telling you is that they have been in your position before. This is why they are trying to give you sound advice. Follow the money and if you do, you will stick to making doors not vacuum cups.

Is there enough clearance on your machine that the machining could be done on the edge of the table, thus when using the aggregate would not hit the table when machining the edge of the panel. Though this would require the parts being turned to run both hinges and lock.

As most the doors are probably a similar size, you could make a jig of sorts to place on the table and use the vacuum you already have. Doors would be placed on the jig thick enough to allow the clearance for the aggregate.

In the end the quickest, easiest and cheapest solution may be a buyout vacuum cup.

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no need any one of this ,just cut raw mdf size less some cm on x and y ,and put it on spoilboard and put door on it

Mike when you say foam gasket is a pain what are you talking about. Our Bessie uses your pods and they use a foam gasket

Jerry you may have cups prior to 2007. Since then we have changed our lip seal design to a 2mm flexible seal to mirror your parts surface. You can still use no foam gasket on our old flat design, but the material must be flat and too many cups becomes difficult to make a seal with large shapes.

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if all your doors are similar in size set your pods on your nesting machine to the spoil board or table. You will need a vacuum pump. You don't need anyones permission. There are many pods available. Set up a rig to align your doors on the pods, kick the vac. Go

This might help out a few of you on this subject.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_R4BZsKwqs&t=4s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_R4BZsKwqs&t=4s