Moving the shop, *sigh*

[Steve Southwood]

Lookin real good. Nice stealth gloat on the dust collector.

[Karl Brogger]

Lookin real good. Nice stealth gloat on the dust collector.

Thanks to that other site, "gloat" has become a word that makes my skin crawl.... No bragging to be had, I paid $400 for it. There was one on CL a while back that the guy wanted $550 for, and I found a couple in Iowa through an equipment dealer but they wanted $600 for those. I think I paid a fair price. Its a little rough, but nothing too serious.

[Steve Southwood]

Well Ok then, 400 still seems like a good price. Yep gloat can be used to death.

[Karl Brogger]

No problem Steve, wasn't trying to be a jerk or anything.







On another note, been looking at the McMaster-Carr catalog and they have a pretty extensive amount of stuff for dust collection. Pipe, fittings, elbows, gates, and it seems to be pretty fair pricing.

My new landlord is a plumber and has access to most of this stuff through a wholesaler, but I will be comparing prices just out of curiosity.

[Vaughn McMillan]

Very cool Karl. Looking better and better.

You may have posted something about it before, but what's the large tool with the flat panel on the left side of this photo?

[Karl Brogger]

Very cool Karl. Looking better and better.

You may have posted something about it before, but what's the large tool with the flat panel on the left side of this photo?

Its a face frame assembly table. The arm hanging over the table has pneumatic cylinders that push down on to the table. It holds the face of a pocket screw joint flat by pushing against the backside of both pieces with the cylinder while you screw it together. Its got a 5' by 12' working area, rarely does a frame have to be assembled anywhere but there.

That was an auction find worth bragging about. I got it for $1200 in very nice condition, the only price I could find for a new one was $7500.

[Steve Southwood]

No problem Steve, wasn't trying to be a jerk or anything.

Didn't take it that way at all either. Shop is looking good, keep the pics coming.

[Karl Brogger]

keep the pics coming.

and how!


Polished up the top on the new to me saw. Its going to need some more work. I'm going to go to town on it with some rubbing compound, a wool bonnet, and a 9" Milwaukee grinder. I'll be able to shave in top by the time I get done. stains and spots drive me bonkers. I'm a bit, hmmmm, particular about my things and I don't like it when they don't look their best.




Bench is essentially done and loaded up.



Spent some time making a decent hood. I'm hoping the angles will help keep the amount of dust in the box to a minimum



This took a couple of hours. Turned out really well, now I'll just have to butcher it when I cut a hole for the pipe.



Have I ever mentioned I hate compound mitres on bits like this?



Hope it works well! I think I'll add a bit of chicken wire in there to block any massive chunks from getting sucked up the pipe, but not all the way to the collector. When I took all the old stuff apart at the old shop I was amazed at how much stuff was caught in elbows. Which is the reason I will NEVER run dust collection pipe where I can't get at it, like in a concrete floor.




Didn't get any lines plumbed for the compressor today. Had to run Satan,....I mean my ol' lady to the airport in the middle of the afternoon. That killed almost three hours of my life.

[Brent Dowell]

Wow, Now that's the way to make a dust hood! I really like the way that whole wall is coming together...

[Karl Brogger]

So.............. Something you should know about me, I've got some OCD issues..... I wash my hands almost excessively. I like the shop to be clean, and I like my equipment to be very nice looking. I can step on cracks, and I do not have to turn the lights on three times prior to entering a room. I'm more on the "very particular" side of things. I think its actually a good trait to have in this business, many people I've worked with have been the same way, generally to a slightly lesser degree though.

As some may know I bought a used tablesaw in pretty nice shape a few weeks ago. For the most part it is immaculate, but the top had some of the more usual hobbyist wounds on it. Stains, some dings, a few spots where an orbital sander had taken a trip on its side across it....


This picture doesn't give a real good idea of what the top looked like, but its the best I've got and its on the day I picked it up. About half way into cleaning it up, I realized I should have taken some before pictures. oh well.



Here's the final product. I started off with 400g, then 600g, then went to town on it with a fast cut wool bonnet on a Milwaukee 9" angle grinder. Started off with a red rouge for polishing, then moved to the Mcguire's fine cut stuff. I'm content with it. Doing it again I think I would've started with 320, then worked my way up to get all of the scratches out and made an absolute mirror out of the top. But who's got the time for that non-sense!



I promised a finish I could shave in, unfortunately laziness took over and this is as close as I'm going to get.




In other shop news I plumbed in most of the airlines. I used Pex pipe, (like Uponor, or Wirsbo), and I gotta say that was stupid how easy it was to install. I put up 240' of the main run in about 4hrs. I still need to make up the drops, but that won't take long to make or install. I ended up doing a continuous loop around the outside walls all the way around in 3/4" pipe, then the drops will be 1/2"

I also made some cool blocks for my widebelt to rest on. Being that its made in Taiwan, and not the greatest engineering feat accomplished by man I need to get under it now and again so I can move it and access one of the panels on the side.