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  1. #1141
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    Hi all, I hope you had a Merry Christmas and will have a Happy New Year.
    Many apologies for my recent absence from our beloved forum but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been doing woodwork in amongst other adventures.
    Mrs Fletty and I managed to get trapped in the NSW South Coast fires.....

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    .... but we are all OK, were never in personal danger but have come home full of admiration for the bravery and perseverance of our firies and for the stoicism and generosity of the people that we met, helped and were helped by!
    I have recently got back in to the shed and have started to rebuild my router table to get ready for the workshop dust collection automation.
    I have rightly been chipped in the past for putting things in this shed forum rather than “their correct place” so here is my first attempt to right that little wrong.

    The router table renovation is here.....

    Router (table) resurrection

    ....and here’s a couple of pics for those who don’t want to go surfing!

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    a rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!

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    Good to hear you escaped the fires.

  4. #1143
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    Thanks Bob.
    The resurrected router table (Router (table) resurrection) and ongoing project to convert all machines to 150mm diameter dust outlets are to enable me to take better advantage of the new automated dust control system which we’ve been developing over the last 12 months. (Auto Blast Gates Australia is Now Open For Business). Now that Auto Blast Gates (ABG) has been released, I can stop checking the background of any photos I may have posted in case of inadvertent clues and get back to normal irreverent posting of shed activities, in fact any posting AND DOING WOODWORK!
    The new router table is connected to 2 100mm ABG gates operated as a master and slave pair even though political correctness has named them the sorcerer and apprentice...

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    ...... whereby the Sorcerer is always activated when the router is turned on, and the Apprentice can be slaved to it by switching it to AUTO. The Sorcerers flex is connected to the most appropriate dust outlet which can be either the under-table collector (say for rebates) or the fence collector and the Apprentices flex to the secondary outlet or not connected at all. So far it is working very well.
    My current 150 mm dust outlet conversion project is my Laguna 14Twelve bandsaw and it is still a WIP....

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    .... and I’ll post more on it if/when successful but then transfer it and its brothers and sisters to John Samuel’s generic post on dust outlet conversions.
    In the meantime, other than the shed being full of production blastgates .....

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    .... the fridge is still full of cold beer (and a bottle of sparkling mineral water for NCArcher) and visitors are always welcome ...... although I would recommend doing that when the temperature inside is less than 45degC.
    PS, I now have a 45degC alarm in the shed. I fitted a 45deg normally off bi-metal switch to my DE’s VFD cooling fan so that, when the VFD starts its ‘song’.......... it’s time to leave!
    fletty
    a rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!

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    Alan that looks 100% plus!
    Not bad for the fellow I met in a suit n bow tie[emoji5]
    Good luck with the new venture.

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    My project to improve dust collection by increasing outlet size on my machines, is about to confront the 2 elephants in the room. By far my poorest remaining dust collection areas are the above table hood on the table saw and my mitre saw. The mitre saw at least is not in my main work area and so can wait but still needs SUBSTANTIAL remediation. There are many current threads on this with some good ideas starting with replacement ........... and so I will keep watching.
    For my table saw hood, the JET came with an unvented hood precariously balanced on top of a broad riving knife which did at least lean in sympathy with the blade. I don’t think it was their designer’s best work but seems to have been spawned in the Accounts Department?
    Some years ago, I mounted a short length of Festool vacuum wand to the top of the hood......

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    ...... and provided I remembered to turn the Festool vacuum ON, it did at least reduce the amount of airborne dust. The issue is, that now I have automated the whole DC regime in the shed, remembering to turn on the Festool became even less likely! I looked at third party hoods and was particularly impressed with the Shark Guard only to find that the proprietor has gone to the Great Workshop In The Sky and the product is currently in limbo. I had also recently bought a dust collecting kit from Carbatec that consisted of one of those lengths of corrugated flex that can be hand moulded to a shape for dust collection on (say) a drill press. This kit also included a moulded reducer which tapered from a 90mm diameter round to a narrower slot and this inspired the following....
    I cut off the Festool wand...

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    shortened and cut a slot into the reducer, cut an appropriate shaped hole in the hood...

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    and glued the whole disaster together before epoxy puttying the gaps left from the Festool mount.

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    When it has all set, I’ll trial it and report back
    a rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!

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    This thread needs an index so that when it gets dark and I have to stop reading and go to bed , I can pick up again in the morning and for the ensuing week or so it would take to read it. SEVENTY SEVEN PAGES! ����

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    Quote Originally Posted by riverbuilder View Post
    This thread needs an index so that when it gets dark and I have to stop reading and go to bed , I can pick up again in the morning and for the ensuing week or so it would take to read it. SEVENTY SEVEN PAGES! ����
    Good idea riv’
    During one of my shed get togethers to which everyone is invited, a regular attendee remarked that he didn’t read it any more as he was waiting for the movie!
    a rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!

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    Quote Originally Posted by riverbuilder View Post
    This thread needs an index so that when it gets dark and I have to stop reading and go to bed , I can pick up again in the morning .....����
    Nice idea, RiverBuilder. Your suggestion was in Post #1146 of the thread. That numbering is a good start.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GraemeCook View Post
    Nice idea, RiverBuilder. Your suggestion was in Post #1146 of the thread. That numbering is a good start.
    a rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!

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    Quote Originally Posted by GraemeCook View Post
    Nice idea, RiverBuilder. Your suggestion was in Post #1146 of the thread. That numbering is a good start.
    it is!!! I have learned something today, many thanks.

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    Looks hopeful....

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    I put the hood back on to the saw late today and, at that time of the day, the easiest way to see if it would suck up dust........ was to throw some at it?
    a rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!

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    Currently at Number 1 daughter’s place on the NSW North Coast and (quietly) noted with much happiness that her ‘heirloom table’ and 2 chairs, 1 of the 3 sets that I made some years ago, is in daily use and still looking good!

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    Australian red cedar just gets richer and deeper as time goes by.
    a rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!

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    The hatstand/hall stand/winerack/cocktail cabinet isn’t looking too shabby either?

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    It is nice to see something that you have created being used so continuously and routinely that it now just a part of the fabric of a home.
    a rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!

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    Looks good fletty

    I’m hanging out for life change so that I may be able to do some similar shed time


    Dave TTC
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    Quote Originally Posted by DaveTTC View Post
    Looks good fletty

    I’m hanging out for life change so that I may be able to do some similar shed time


    Dave TTC
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    Thanks Dave and HAPPY BIRTHDAY
    a rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!

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