I have one of these on each of my lathes. I drilled and tapped some holes in the bed on my first lathe,(Carba-Tec)and that works pretty good, just have to be sure that the bracket is level with the lathe bed so that you can manipulate the Banjo around inside the hood. When I got the second lathe (Jet Mini VS) I found that I couldn't use the Hood in the same configuration due to the height of the headstock from the lathe bed. The bracket was always right where I wanted the banjo. I used the directions posted in the files section of this site to construct a new and more banjo friendly attachment method using two 2" wide strips of Oak and rare earth magnets. This works great with the hood because now I can slide it anywhere I want to on the bed of the lathe.