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Yup. I've also thought of hanging plastic sheets around the sides and rear of the lathe so that the cleanup is only in one directionYeah, I was thinking about the possibilities of shower curtains. (Hmmm...pink flamingos might look dashing in there.)
I do that also ... I drag the lathe out into the middle of the garage leaving me as much free space for chips as possible - biggest trouble is that the space is limitedI can also move the lathe out a bit more towards the middle of the room, .....
I use a chunk of 4" DC flex tubing as a chip vac. I find that it works better than the small shop vac hose for gathering up lathe shavings. My DC is a small portable one, but for those folks with fixed DC's, a coupe of tubing drops with gates and a chunk of flex hose to slip onto the drop should work just fine - it also vac's a heck of a lot faster then the small shop vac.Tonight it only took me about 10 or 15 minutes to clean it all up with a broom and a shop vac. .....
Right now I've got it arranged so the big tools I use regularly (lathe, bandsaw, and tablesaw) are all out in the open and ready to use, and all the other tools that I don't use very often are crammed off to one side. If I need something (like the jointer, which I use only maybe 4 or 5 times a year) I can wheel it out into the open and use it. So far it's working out better this way. More space in general, and easier to move around in it....Looks like you still have some minor tweaking to do on the orientation of the shop...
Exactly what the doctor ordered. Solid as a rock with the feet down, moves very easily on the wheels with the feet up. I ran this blank up to about 750 rpm just to see how much jumping I could get out of the lathe. It shook, but it stayed in place. (I wouldn't have attempted to actually turn this blank at that speed.) At the 200 - 450 rpm I was using to turn it, it was very stable....How are the wheels workin out?
Nice work, Vaughn! Next time you drive thru Pickles Gap I'll load your truck up with some more of that woood. Looks like you get along with Arky Walnut just fine...
As to the shower curtain... I tried that... but I end up throwing shavings about 19 different ways (including up and down) when I'm turning and I don't think any mortal configuration of shower curtains can contain the carnage. So I just let 'er buck...