Thread: Fletty's new shed WIP ....or is it a retrospective??

Methinks that will inhibit your fine dust collection that you worked so hard to get (through lost power), but Bob may comment on that. What about one of aldav's cyclones instead?

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Large-Cy...-/182649731727

I don’t think the Camden garbos would recognise one of Aldav’s fine cyclones left in the gutter on a Tuesday morning?

RE: Fine Dust collection;
Outside - for a short period should not a problem.

While were on dry leaf litter/dust. Most people don't realise its just as toxic as wood dust, perhaps more so, as leaf litter contains all sorts of nasties like pollen, bits and pieces of animals including faeces, and soil bacteria etc. It's just that we don't tend to enjoy collecting leaves so we minimise the amount of time we spend on it. Unlike woodworking where its possible to be exposed for many hours even at relatively low levels.

Originally Posted by fletty

I don’t think the Camden garbos would recognise one of Aldav’s fine cyclones left in the gutter on a Tuesday morning?

Aaaah, ¿que? I didn't think it was Port O'clock until this time Sat-dy?

Originally Posted by FenceFurniture

Aaaah, ¿que? I didn't think it was Port O'clock until this time Sat-dy?

Its always port o’clock somewhere in the World

saw this on the side of a concrete pumping truck a little while ago


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Is there a Dust Extractor version?

I was once going to ask Benevolent Dictator to create a new sub forum called ‘So you don’t have a lathe’ but I realised that the only threads in that forum would be “I asked on the forum for someone to turn something for me and one of our 28,684 registered hurdy gurdy men and women happily put their hand up” (PS, I made that number up by the way?). Well, in another thread that I’ll be adding to later today, I had a bit of a problem because “I don’t have a lathe”?
I had 2 irregular, round but not circular pieces of hazel that needed to be turned down to fit into a brass coupler.
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To to be able to get through security at Airports, I had cut the one piece of hazel into halves and I needed to rejoin them before my sacrilege was discovered. Ideally, I should have turned a section near the middle and then cut it so that the halves could easily be re-aligned, but......
Anyway, I needed to find a way to turn a non-circular AND crooked hazel stick to a circular and parallel tenon and this is how I did it...

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Each piece was was pushed through the clearance hole in the block on the right, over the spinning router bit and into the stop block on the left. By pushing backwards and forwards while rotating it, I got a ‘good enough’ and parallel tenon with a clean and square shoulder.

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So Neil, please forget the ‘So you don’t have a lathe’ subforum for a while?

fletty

As they say, "there is always more than one way to skin a cat", with apologies to all felines and feline lovers!

Glad it worked out O.K for you Alan, and no damage was done to your hand.

(Another) Alan...

and here I was all ready to throw the lathe in the back of the car and go for a drive ...

Originally Posted by Sawdust Maker

and here I was all ready to throw the lathe in the back of the car and go for a drive ...

just because I don’t need the lathe doesn’t mean the beer isn’t cold?

Originally Posted by fletty

just because I don’t need the lathe doesn’t mean the beer isn’t cold?

Was it Confucius who said that originally..or was it Marx..?

Originally Posted by NCArcher

Was it Confucius who said that originally..or was it Marx..?

I thought it was Shakespeare?

Originally Posted by fletty

I thought it was Shakespeare?

All right I'll bite; Which Shakespeare play??