# Mount to ceiling?
**URL:** https://community.inventables.com/t/mount-to-ceiling/34181
**Category:** X-Carve
**Created:** [February 17, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/mount-to-ceiling/34181 "2017-02-17T18:51:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@BrentBastien](https://community.inventables.com/u/BrentBastien)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/mount-to-ceiling/34181/1 "2017-02-17T18:51:34Z")
This may be a silly question but i am about to assemble my xcarve and workspace would there be any reason that i couldnt
mount it upside down on the ceiling of my garage to save space and let the shavings and dust just fall down.
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### Author:  [@JDM](https://community.inventables.com/u/JDM)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/mount-to-ceiling/34181/2 "2017-02-17T19:05:27Z")
Could you? yes, I suppose.
I can’t imagine it would be a fun experience working with it. Maintenance, clean up, setting up a project…
I’ve seen some people hinge the table so it folds up against a wall.
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### Author:  [@AaronMatthews](https://community.inventables.com/u/AaronMatthews)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2017, 8:33pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/mount-to-ceiling/34181/3 "2017-02-17T20:33:06Z")
Clamping would be a nightmare as you would be fighting gravity to keep the material against the work surface. The design relies on gravity to work properly.
To save space, people have made fold up tables for he XC when not in use, or have their XC lowed down from the ceiling on cables.
There is also a CNC machine designed to operate while leaning up against a wall, but that is the most unusual orientation I have seen.
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### Author:  [@MRoss](https://community.inventables.com/u/MRoss)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2017, 12:35am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/mount-to-ceiling/34181/5 "2017-02-18T00:35:26Z")
If you every got material setup then I think you would be loading router with chips and dust prohibiting cooling
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### Author:  [@BrandonJenkins](https://community.inventables.com/u/BrandonJenkins)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2017, 1:37am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/mount-to-ceiling/34181/6 "2017-02-18T01:37:35Z")
Just thinking, i would do a pully system to raise it up to the point when not in use. Eye lags into ceiling joists then rope on pullies.
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### Author:  [@MichaelGrigg](https://community.inventables.com/u/MichaelGrigg)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/mount-to-ceiling/34181/7 "2017-02-18T02:41:29Z")
Check this out. Do a forum search on it as well.
Racor PHL-1R Pro HeavyLift 4-by-4-Foot Cable-Lifted Storage Rack [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009I8AO6/ref=cm\_sw\_r\_sms\_c\_api\_en7PybWXD3RRM](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009I8AO6/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_c_api_en7PybWXD3RRM)
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### Author:  [@JohnChamplain](https://community.inventables.com/u/JohnChamplain)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2017, 4:09am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/mount-to-ceiling/34181/9 "2017-02-18T04:09:03Z")
My neck hurts just thinking about it.
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### Author:  [@BrandonJenkins](https://community.inventables.com/u/BrandonJenkins)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2017, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/mount-to-ceiling/34181/10 "2017-02-18T14:56:38Z")
But not having the machine upside-down.