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dai sensei
29th June 2005, 06:21 PM
My son, the computer whiz in the family, has just finished putting a web site together for me. The site is an informative site showing my workshop and some of the things I have made since moving to the Gold Coast 5 years ago. It is not a sales web site.

http://www.dai-sensei.com

See what you think.

Cheers

chrisp
29th June 2005, 06:50 PM
Neil,

It looks like the start of a great web site - but the images don't seem to be workings.

I'm looking forward to seeing how you have set up the cyclone seperator and the ducting. I'm working on one and I'm keen to see as many other setups as possible.

Chris

TrevorOwen
29th June 2005, 07:04 PM
Great workshop Neil. You website is terrific and I think you would be very proud of your son. I suppose your having dinner on that great looking dining room table tonight are you? By the way, all photos were accessible to me.

Regards from Adelaide
Trevor

MICKYG
29th June 2005, 07:06 PM
Neil

No piccys available here for me

Regards Mike :(

Tankstand
29th June 2005, 07:11 PM
Excellent!

BTW. What is cracker dust? Anything like dolomite?

No worries with the pictures this end!

journeyman Mick
29th June 2005, 07:18 PM
Cracker dust, AKA crusher dust, small particles of blue metal (basalt) about 3mm across, by-product of gravel crushing plant. Packs down really well, when dampened and compacted with plate vibrator.

Mick

PS, looks great Neil.

Tikki
29th June 2005, 07:33 PM
Your son did a wonderful job of the website, well laid out and easy to view. Love your work, especially the Camphor Laurel clock and dining table ... beautiful! :)

Cheers
Tikki :)

dai sensei
29th June 2005, 08:01 PM
Neil

No piccys available here for me

Regards Mike :(
Hello this is neils son,

For the people who are having problems with the images just a few questions...
1.) What internet browser are you guys using?
2.) And also what connection speed do you have?

mutanti
29th June 2005, 08:37 PM
No Pics .
Im using Mozilla 1.04
windows xp
over 1 gig ram
Connection 512/128 adsl :) and loving it
Left click places where image should be and I get --
Im sorry but the page you requested could not be found
Your error details can be found below, if you think this is a problem with the website please report it

Error Details: 220.240.114.124
www.dai-sensei.com
http://www.dai-sensei.com/furniture.html
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
/errors/wrongpge.php

Cliff Rogers
29th June 2005, 08:46 PM
Site works for me... WIN XP, IE 6.0.29, ADSL

dai sensei
29th June 2005, 08:46 PM
No Pics .
Im using Mozilla 1.04
windows xp
over 1 gig ram
Connection 512/128 adsl :) and loving it
Left click places where image should be and I get --
Im sorry but the page you requested could not be found
Your error details can be found below, if you think this is a problem with the website please report it

Error Details: 220.240.114.124
www.dai-sensei.com (http://www.dai-sensei.com/)
http://www.dai-sensei.com/furniture.html
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
/errors/wrongpge.php
Thanks for the info.

Try opening the page with internet explorer, if you have it. I think this is a compatibility issue that I will do research on to try to fix the problem.

Auld Bassoon
29th June 2005, 08:51 PM
My son, the computer whiz in the family, has just finished putting a web site together for me. The site is an informative site showing my workshop and some of the things I have made since moving to the Gold Coast 5 years ago. It is not a sales web site.

http://www.dai-sensei.com (http://www.dai-sensei.com/)

See what you think.

CheersHi Neil!,

Very professional web site, congratulations to your son!

For a small w/shop, you seem to have it laid out very well.

One Question: With only a 1hp DC, even with the cyclone that you've built, do you really find it up to the job? - and what sort of kit have you got it hooked up to?

I've got a 2hp DC with intermediate dust-bin, and an overhead PVC "spider's web" plus misc. 100mm flexible tubing, all of which is hooked up, with appropriate blast gates, to 1 T/S, 1 B/S, 1 Jointer, 1 Thicknesser and a Router Table (1 x 100mm, plus 1 x 65mm upper outlet). It's ok, but not brilliant. I've tried adding a 1hp DC that I also have in parallel (i.e. via a 'Y' junction into the bin), but this didn't seem to work; rather the two DCs seemed to fight each other...http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon11.gif

Comments from the forum welcome!

Cheers,
Steve B

dai sensei
29th June 2005, 09:15 PM
Thanks for the compliments, hopefully my son should be able to sort out the problems with Firefox.


One Question: With only a 1hp DC, even with the cyclone that you've built, do you really find it up to the job? - and what sort of kit have you got it hooked up to?

I've got a 2hp DC with intermediate dust-bin, and an overhead PVC "spider's web" plus misc. 100mm flexible tubing, all of which is hooked up, with appropriate blast gates, to 1 T/S, 1 B/S, 1 Jointer, 1 Thicknesser and a Router Table (1 x 100mm, plus 1 x 65mm upper outlet). It's ok, but not brilliant. I've tried adding a 1hp DC that I also have in parallel (i.e. via a 'Y' junction into the bin), but this didn't seem to work; rather the two DCs seemed to fight each other...http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon11.gif

I've got my DC connected via the gates to the lathe, the TS and the bandsaw. I have another port also for the router and bench drill and I am currently using a pivoting arm with dust hood (Timbercon "dust picker" DP100). I will eventually make a direct connection to the router table.

I find the 1hp unit will pick up all the shavings and dust, provided you are not far from the hood. I did open up the inlet to the unit and have minimised the joints & angles in the pipework to maximise the little units effeciency, but certainly a bigger hp unit would be better.

As to your 2 DC set-up, I'm no expert, but the units probably would be fighting each other. Also, not sure what 2 stage bin you have, does it have circulating top? My old 2 stage bin was an "in and out" job, with nothing to circulate the air in the bin and caused a huge loss in air flow.

It's a pity your not in Qld, I have a spare cyclone for a thru system you could have tried. Mind you, the cyclone was easier to build than I originally thought. You may want to consider making your own.

Wayne Davey of this forum made his cyclone and DC system with a 2hp unit - worth a look.

Cheers

martrix
29th June 2005, 09:31 PM
Hey Neil, nice website, love looking into other peoples world. Love this piece

http://www.dai-sensei.com/images/trinket/trinket%20(3).jpg
Was it as simple as mixing the required amount of blue glitter, in with something like West System epoxy?http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon14.gif

dai sensei
29th June 2005, 09:37 PM
Hey Neil, nice website, love looking into other peoples world. Love this piece


Was it as simple as mixing the required amount of blue glitter, in with something like West System epoxy?http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon14.gif
I lay some Diggers casting resin in the grove, then sprinkle the sparkles in it. Let is partially set, blow off the excess sparkles, then completely fill the grove with more resin.

Cheers

Cliff Rogers
29th June 2005, 09:38 PM
Yeah Neil, I liked the little boxes & the way the workshop lay out is coloured.... Jet in White, Triton in Orange, very good.

The Cyclone & ducting system is impressive.

Tankstand
29th June 2005, 10:04 PM
Cracker dust, AKA crusher dust, small particles of blue metal (basalt) about 3mm across, by-product of gravel crushing plant. Packs down really well, when dampened and compacted with plate vibrator.

Thanks Mick, Sounds exactly like what I know to be Dolomite.

mutanti
29th June 2005, 10:07 PM
Workin fine in explorer, Sorry, was going to put that in the first post.. :)

Auld Bassoon
29th June 2005, 10:31 PM
As to your 2 DC set-up, I'm no expert, but the units probably would be fighting each other. Also, not sure what 2 stage bin you have, does it have circulating top? My old 2 stage bin was an "in and out" job, with nothing to circulate the air in the bin and caused a huge loss in air flow.

It's a pity your not in Qld, I have a spare cyclone for a thru system you could have tried. Mind you, the cyclone was easier to build than I originally thought. You may want to consider making your own.

Wayne Davey of this forum made his cyclone and DC system with a 2hp unit - worth a look.

Cheers
Hi Neil,

I'm inclined to agree with your assessment that it's the bin. Mine's literally that: a bin with a "inlet" and an "outlet" port.

As you say, it's a pity I'm not in Queensland (Melbourne today: low 5 and high 14) Brrrrrrr! - especially in a shed with an uninsulated tin roof, a thin metal door (it used to be a two-car garage) and goodish few large draught ventshttp://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon9.gif)

It may be that I'll have to try Wayne's Cyclone bizzo, or something similar.

Thanks for your thoughts,

Cheers!
Steve B

Neil
30th June 2005, 01:11 AM
Nice site Neil, it all worked fine for me.

Thanks for the links to U-Beaut and the Woodwork Forums. Good to see someone else with a link to Wintersun on their site. Did you go? We have been wanting to get there for a couple of years but can't make it. Have a few friends who go and rave about it, some only got back last week, but with a whole heap of new moves under their belt. :D

Was out rockin last night till 11pm. http://www.ubeaut.biz/rocknroll.htm

Cheers - Neil http://instagiber.net/smiliesdotcom/otn/glasses/507.gif

RufflyRustic
30th June 2005, 09:41 AM
Love the site Neil! Congrats to Chris for a fantastic job.

cheers
Wendy

silentC
30th June 2005, 10:04 AM
Thanks for the info.

Try opening the page with internet explorer, if you have it. I think this is a compatibility issue that I will do research on to try to fix the problem.
You need to replace the backslashes in the url with forward slashes. Firefox encodes them as '%5C' which is why the URL is not resolving. ;)

eg. you have "http://www.dai-sensei.com/images\furniture\bed\bed.jpg"

Firefox turns this into "http://www.dai-sensei.com/images%5Cfurniture%5Cbed%5Cbed.jpg"

dai sensei
30th June 2005, 11:12 AM
You need to replace the backslashes in the url with forward slashes. Firefox encodes them as '%5C' which is why the URL is not resolving. ;)

eg. you have "http://www.dai-sensei.com/images\furniture\bed\bed.jpg"

Firefox turns this into "http://www.dai-sensei.com/images%5Cfurniture%5Cbed%5Cbed.jpg"
Yes thank you for that information i was wondering if that would make a difference. Ill fix it immediately.

Thank you once again for the information.

zenwood
30th June 2005, 11:20 AM
Firefox: no piccies:(
Explorer: yes piccies:)

Beautiful website. Impressive bed: what do the oriental characters say (or is it a secret?)

After saying in another thread that timber with epoxied features didn't do much for me, I think your glitter box is gorgeous. The dark blue on the dark red timber is very nice.

Nice panoramas of the shed:D

Your dust collection story was inspiring. I've got the same single-bag thing that you seem to have started out with, so now I'm going to have to read the Pentz meterial:mad:;)

Bob Willson
30th June 2005, 11:38 AM
Hi Neil

I also have a few problems with Opera.
I can get the pictures, but they are generally only 1/10th the size they should be. There is a scroll bar to the right of the screen that lets me see a small amount of each picture at a time. The width is fine, the height is lacking. The top and left sides are both properly formed but the whole of the bottom of the page is white/blank

My screen is running at 1280 * 1024

Bob Willson
30th June 2005, 11:46 AM
Beautiful website. Impressive bed: what do the oriental characters say (or is it a secret?)

[Extract from the text on the web site]
There are carvings done at each end of the bed done with a Dremmel and router bit. The dragon carving at the head symbolises the martial arts style Zen Do Kai. The carved characters at the base are half in Chinese, half in Japanese and mean "way of the empty handed dragon" or karate master (as embroidered onto senior instructors' belts - 2nd Dan and above).

HappyHammer
30th June 2005, 02:11 PM
Great site Chris.

Like the workshop Neil and your work is great. How do you find the Triton Router table? and did you have a Triton TS and trade up to the JET?

HH.

Bob Willson
30th June 2005, 03:28 PM
Actually this is quite strange as the site at this address (http://www.dai-sensei.com/Skirmish/) seems to display correctly. IE a full page of graphics around the edges.
The centre part on the other hand shows just 2 ?s in black diamonds with a < sign to the right of them

MICKYG
30th June 2005, 04:13 PM
Neil,

Speed is 1.5 MBPS ADSL (TPG) and using Mozilla Firefox.

Regards Mike

dai sensei
30th June 2005, 09:09 PM
You need to replace the backslashes in the url with forward slashes. Firefox encodes them as '%5C' which is why the URL is not resolving. ;)

eg. you have "http://www.dai-sensei.com/images\furniture\bed\bed.jpg"

Firefox turns this into "http://www.dai-sensei.com/images%5Cfurniture%5Cbed%5Cbed.jpg"
My son says he has done this, but by the posts still coming, the problem still appears to be there. He will download the other software packages tomorrow to test out what happens. Any other suggestions on solutions welcomed.

Sorry to those who are having problems, I sure Chris will fix it.

Cheers

dai sensei
30th June 2005, 09:32 PM
Thanks to Mick & Bob for answering those questions on cracker dust & letters for me http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon12.gif


Thanks for the links to U-Beaut and the Woodwork Forums. Good to see someone else with a link to Wintersun on their site. Did you go?
No probs about the links, I was going to ask Chris to include the Ubeat and this forum's pictures and a little blurb on how good they are on the next update.

Yes I made it to Wintersun. I spent most of the time with friends from Darwin, Cairns and Merimbula R&R clubs I have danced with in the past. It has been 2 years since I last danced (fire and broken ankle slowed me down a bit) so I was a bit rusty to say the least. The best night for me was the big Swing Sensation with the big band - love that swing http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon6.gif.


How do you find the Triton Router table? and did you have a Triton TS and trade up to the JET?

Before my fire I had the Triton Workcentre with the router table and they both worked fine. After the fire I upgraded to the Jet TS and bandsaw to use up one of the insurance cheques at one store, and bought the Triton router and stand from another. The saw works great, but to be honest, I haven't even finished putting together the router table let alone used it. I got a bit side tracked on the DC system http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon10.gif.


...I'm going to have to read the Pentz meterial
Take your time, there is a lot to read http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon12.gif

Cheers

MICKYG
30th June 2005, 09:44 PM
Neil

I have pictures here now. Very Nice keep up the good work. The pics are not really quick loaders but that could be the server. I have viewed them all and really very nice.

Kind Regards Mike. :D

silentC
1st July 2005, 09:03 AM
My son says he has done this, but by the posts still coming, the problem still appears to be there. He will download the other software packages tomorrow to test out what happens. Any other suggestions on solutions welcomed.
Probably getting a cached page. Working fine for me today.


Merimbula R&R club
I played a gig at Pambula one night and those guys turned up and danced to a couple of numbers. Looks like hard work ;)

Simomatra
1st July 2005, 09:31 AM
Great web page, conrats to your son, lots of ideas especially for me as I am just fitting out a new shed

All pictures visible to me

Regards Sam

zenwood
1st July 2005, 10:52 AM
http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon14.gifSite working fine in Firefox now. Well done techo-son guru http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon14.gif:)

How did your old dust collection system work out? I don't feel I have the sheet-working skills to build a cyclone, but I can imagine putting a plastic rubbish bin between the machine and the blower. Did it improve anything beyond having the blower and bag alone? Actually a steel rubbish bin would be better, as all the plastic bins seem to have ribbed sides, which would introduce lots of turbulence.

What about simply angling the input and output vents to the rubbish bin? That would set up its own cyclone, if all you want to do is reduce turbulence (and increase air flow efficiency) that might go a long way to doing the trick.

Again many thanks for the site. Keep the piccies coming.

dai sensei
1st July 2005, 06:38 PM
http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon14.gifSite working fine in Firefox now. Well done techo-son guru http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon14.gif:)

How did your old dust collection system work out? I don't feel I have the sheet-working skills to build a cyclone, but I can imagine putting a plastic rubbish bin between the machine and the blower. Did it improve anything beyond having the blower and bag alone? Actually a steel rubbish bin would be better, as all the plastic bins seem to have ribbed sides, which would introduce lots of turbulence.

What about simply angling the input and output vents to the rubbish bin? That would set up its own cyclone, if all you want to do is reduce turbulence (and increase air flow efficiency) that might go a long way to doing the trick.

Again many thanks for the site. Keep the piccies coming.
The DC worked a lot better than the blower and bag alone. Apart from the fact the bag causes a lot of the problem as it clogs with the very fine materials, I opened up the intake from 4" to 5".

You are right, a smooth metal bin with angled input would work better than a rough bin, that is what echnidna has http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/showthread.php?t=12754&highlight=workshop+pics but the cyclone works a lot better IMHO.

Making one is relatively easy, the hardest part is marking all the pieces out and installing the ramp. It's worth a try giving it a go. I made 2, one a bit smaller out of aluminium that was good practice. I modified the second one to include the timbers at the cone/upper cylinder joint which made it a lot easier.

Cheers