Redneck inventions.

Roy from Pa · August 16, 2021, 11:12:29 AM

Flem · August 16, 2021, 11:20:17 AM

I was back at the bandsaw cabinet again. Roy, I believe you are right about the dust post location. After some experimentation, I determined the spinning lower wheel acts as a partial shield for the falling dust. The stuff that falls to the back of the cabinet does not get the same amount of vacuum as the front. A port in the bottom, centered under the wheel would be perfect. Unfortunately my stand has a solid metal top! Just don't feel like disassembling the entire thing to cut a hole. I did rotate the port to the lowest position and that definitely increased the dust uptake. I also opened up a plug on the bottom of the frame and that really did the trick. My dust collector was designed to handle chips from a 15" Planer, so it moves a lot of air. I thought that not sealing up the cabinet would provide enough make up air and it probably would have with a 2" port.
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Roy from Pa · August 16, 2021, 11:30:27 AM

Ya did good Flem...

You seen the dust collection mod I did on my bandsaw. I get a tiny tiny bit of dust in the same area as you did but I wasn't worried all that much about it.

Ya see I'm a real redneck

LOL

Pat B · August 16, 2021, 01:34:11 PM

Does this count as a redneck invention? It's my anti-vibration set up for my high fidelity sound system. With the CD player siting on my work bench the CDs skip like crazy when I'm working on a bow.

...and how can I listen to sounds like these if the CD player is skipping over each song...

Roy from Pa · August 16, 2021, 01:45:09 PM

QuoteDoes this count as a redneck invention?

OH hell yes:)

Pat B · August 16, 2021, 04:13:41 PM

Glad I qualify.

Flem · August 16, 2021, 04:14:20 PM

Heck yeah! Thats awesome. Redneck and Hillbilly

Roy from Pa · August 16, 2021, 04:57:56 PM

Redneck and Hillbilly.

But what's we gonna call Kenny?

wood carver 2 · August 16, 2021, 06:39:30 PM

Quote from: Pat B on August 16, 2021, 01:34:11 PM
Does this count as a redneck invention? It's my anti-vibration set up for my high fidelity sound system. With the CD player siting on my work bench the CDs skip like crazy when I'm working on a bow.

...and how can I listen to sounds like these if the CD player is skipping over each song...

That's awesome!
Dave.

kennym · August 16, 2021, 06:49:18 PM

I reckon you can call kenny a hippie...

Cuz, how can you listen to sounds like that at all??

wood carver 2 · August 16, 2021, 07:13:21 PM

Ok since I was out in the shop, I took some pictures of my bandsaw.
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It was filled with dust, so I started cleaning it out. I get a kick out of the way the dust layers up when I don't use the dust collector. You can see the dust collector port in this pic.
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Here's the location of the upper port. Both ports are 4". I put in a Y coupler on the back of the saw.
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I was mistaken about the location of the brush. It's on the upper left of the drive wheel. I think that the brush is important in that it prevents sawdust from getting stuck to the wheel. If there's much of a buildup on the wheel, it will cause tracking problems.
Dave.

mmattockx · August 16, 2021, 08:25:28 PM

Dave,

Thanks for those pictures, they are exactly what I needed to place some brushes on my saw.

Mark

wood carver 2 · August 16, 2021, 09:18:17 PM

No problem Mark. The brushes have to be pretty stiff to keep the tire clean.
The dust collection in this saw is pretty efficient. I do lots of little cuts where I don't bother to hook up the dust collector, so the saw cabinet gets filled up to the wheel. When I do hook it up, it clears almost completely in a few seconds.
Dave.

kennym · August 16, 2021, 09:54:22 PM

Dave , thats just like my saw, I put a pc of duct tape over half the bottom dust port to try to increase the suction at the guides.

Flem · August 17, 2021, 10:24:12 AM

Pat, I'm afraid thats pretty Bohemian music for a Redneck or a Hillbilly. Sometime back in the 90s', I was afraid that I had developed an "MTV" attention span and forced myself to listen to symphonic music and improv jazz. I don't know if it improved my attention span, but I did discover that any and all music is only an acquired taste.
I'm going out on a limb here, but I think I might be the only bowyer in a 500mi radius that listens to opera in the shop....... and admits it

Pat B · August 17, 2021, 11:45:30 AM

I like opera but don't have any CDs of it except on a few Mozart CDs. I like all sorts of music from my era, my daughter's era(1980s) and all sorts of jazz and classical. Good music is good music!

Roy from Pa · August 17, 2021, 11:54:00 AM

QuoteI'm going out on a limb here, but I think I might be the only bowyer in a 500mi radius that listens to opera in the shop....... and admits it

Shaking my head:)

Buemaker · August 17, 2021, 12:11:53 PM

Led Zeppelin and A/C/D on full blast in my shop.

kennym · August 17, 2021, 01:05:29 PM

I'm with Bue!!

Flem · August 17, 2021, 02:20:58 PM

Quote from: Buemaker on August 17, 2021, 12:11:53 PM
Led Zeppelin and A/C/D on full blast in my shop.

I do some of that too

Mostly when I need to drown out the sound of grinding metal. Which is when I use my homemade spark arrestor for my homemade dust collector.
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Its a couple PVC fittings, window screen, metal plate from a coffee press and a piece of used floor buffing pad.
Never used one until one day I noticed a smell unlike grinding metal.
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Fortunately I always empty the barrel and bag before grinding steel. Still can't believe a hot piece made it thru 6' of hose, into and out of the barrel, up thru the impeller and still had enough heat to smolder in the bag.