Thread: Bueller's shed - a noobs journey through vintage machinery

No pics today but had a great day in the shed. Hooked up the table saw to dust collection using the 4” port, not the greatest at clearing all the dust out of the cabinet but it will do until I can add a 6” BMH.

Then I worked on making a zero clearance insert for my table saw when I’m using the dado stack. Got it all cut to size, just waiting on the glue to dry as I had to sandwich two pieces of ply to get the right thickness. Thinking of having some acrylic laser cut for future, figure if I get enough made I should be able to get them at a good price.

Finally finished making all the window sills for the parents place! Was quick work once we figured out the workflow with some scrap, got 6 sills knocked out in under three hours with a dado stack.

Just had a bit of a score on Gumtree, 60+ offcuts of Jarrah flooring for $60. Tongue and groove flooring from a house built in the 1930s, variety of widths but all 20mm thick and most of them around 50-60cm long.



PERFECT TIMING, just a couple of weeks ago I decided to get together everything I needed to make some picture frames. No idea how much they’re worth but I feel like I got a good deal.

Router arrived, to say it could have been better packaged is an understatement. Dropped in a box, no foam or padding of any kind so it can bounce around for the last fortnight during the trip across Aus. And one of the main reasons I targeted this particular one was because it looked like it had been treated well [emoji35]



Will find out tonight if it still runs, don’t think the office is the best place to fire it up [emoji38]

Been working on the CAD layout for the shed so I can figure out my dust collection, after several nights of moving things around I think I finally have something I'm happy with!



Roller door is on the bottom left in front of the thicknesser/jointer area, it's always open when I'm in the shed so I'll be able to take advantage of some extra out-feed space. The arrows on the machine indicate the feed direction and/or dust collection port location. The right hand side/back wall has pallet racking running the length of it, the dust collector will live on the second shelf so it will be closer to the dust collection runs suspended from the roof joists. Shed size is 9m x 6m for 54sqm total, moving in I thought I'd have room forever but it's quickly filled in as I started thinking about in-feed/out-feed and enough room to comfortably get around everything. Have left minimum 1 metre space around all the work areas, I hate having to squeeze past things so wanted to be careful about that.

I'm going to frame out the toilet and shower as well in the coming months, this will save a little more space as I can remove the cabinets that are in front of them as a temporary wall. The sink will be left out of the framing, want that accessible as a sharpening pond close to the bench. Going to get right into it next month, have been preoccupied getting the house ready for my sisters wedding next month so once that's done Dad and I will get into the dust collection. Then framing out the bathroom, laying a slab and putting up a carport in front of the shed. Oh and solar vents, probably finish everything sometime around 2025.

Hi Dan,

The way I would do it is put the mitre saw router bench and lathe bench up agains the wall nearest the DC as these are the machines with the biggest dust probs so keeping their dusting runs short will help.

Thicky and TS can go a tad closer to the roller door if needed.

Just a suggestion.

Cheers mate, suggestions welcomed. I'm going to build the cabinet around the mitre saw so that I can hopefully contain as much of the dust it spews out, then I'll hook up a 6" BMH to the back of that. Picture below is what I'm kind of thinking.



The lathe I'm still kind of thinking about in regards to dust control, it seems like a hard one outside of having a BMH near the cutting area.

FWIW I did a similar build to Jay Bates cabinet and found the airflow was too restricted with those panels in front of the CMS. I still need to get back to tinkering with different panel shapes but I was finding that smaller particles were escaping (fine powder settling on horizontal surfaces nearby after a few cuts) and dust was building in the corners of the enclosure. Worked better without them albeit larger chips were bouncing out / coming off the saw. Mine is with a moded 2HP dusty unlike Jay's Clearvue, which couldn't fit in Santa's sack last year... I'm hoping mine could be a birthday present this year instead.

Glenn.Visca also has a great thread on his SCMS dusty build - SCMS Dust Extraction

Originally Posted by bueller

Router arrived, to say it could have been better packaged is an understatement. Dropped in a box, no foam or padding of any kind so it can bounce around for the last fortnight during the trip across Aus. And one of the main reasons I targeted this particular one was because it looked like it had been treated well [emoji35]



Will find out tonight if it still runs, don’t think the office is the best place to fire it up [emoji38]

Bueller

Interesting router. It is one of the few fixed base routers that was made available in Oz. Traditionally, and unlike the US, we have prefered the plunge style router. They were pretty expensive when new if I recall: Close to $500?

Having recently purchased DeWalt's combination Fixed base/Plunge model I will be interested to hear your thoughts on the Makita.

Regards
Paul

Sure thing mate, hoping to get the router table set up in the next month or so and I’ll let you know how it goes. The 3601b is actually still available in Australia at around $650 so I was glad to find a good one on eBay, paid less than $200 including shipping and three router bits.

I love when a new package arrives! Have heard nothing but good things about Ray Iles blades and after seeing how reasonable the prices were decided to replace all the blades in my Record planes while Ray is still around. Took just under a fortnight to arrive which for £9.50 I was very happy with. Will post back once I’ve had a chance to try them out in my planes.

If I ever visit Perth, i'd sure like to come by your museum, i was tired hours ago, after seeing your reply on my thread it reminded me of this thread, which i was only half way through. If i ever come across the funds i would like to upgrade my hafco jointer to a helical cutter head, while at the same time I am kind of inspired to strip it and paint it in that hammerite. Your jointer came up a treat!

Thanks mate! Definitely got a soft spot for that jointer, it’ll probably outlive me.

Decided to treat myself to some new tools today, most of my stuff is second hand and I’d gotten fed up with my old corded Metabo drill and having to change bits constantly due to not having a dedicated driver. Splashed out on a brushless Makita kit, for $400 I’m very impressed with them so far. I was going to go for Milwaukee but figured the extra money probably wasn’t worth it considering I’m a weekend warrior. Also picked up a cheap plunge router to help me while I’m making blast gates.







Actually blown away by the little Makita plunge router too, was expecting it to be pretty junk considering the price but I spent about 3 hours using it today and it’s a great piece of kit. Not a powerhouse at 700w but for the price I’m happy. Got it set up on a circle jig and once I figured out some eccentricities of the jig I had it cutting holes which were a perfect press fit over the pipe I was using.