Dust catchers

Good Job, Buck

Mark Mandell - Gone Round In New Jersey

I predict you'll get to like working in a clean shop. It's easier finding tools that aren't buried in the sawdust pile

Re: Good Job, Buck

Buck Nall

Did all of those things decades ago, also have a 4x8 window in

back with 30'' ceiling fan mounted in it to blow out, if I need

it for sanding, hot weather, etc.

Re: Good Job, Buck

Yonak

Can you post a few pics of your shop ? Especially some of your clever improvements, such as the window with the fan in it and others ?

I wonder if the shop tours feature at this site is up and running. Maybe you could post a shop tour there.

dust, chips, and exhaust fans

John K Jordan

>>>pics...window with the fan in it...? Yonak

I'm not Buck but I have one fan pic, sort of. A friend of mine is a proponent of blowing all the chips and dust from his lathe outside. He cut a hole in the shop wall and mounted a fan. All I have is a tiny, blurred screen capture from a video he sent to my phone but you can see the idea.

The fan does accumulate a lot of lathe shavings on the coarse safety grating in front of the fan. This wouldn't be a problem with just sawdust. It makes a bit of a mess outside but that wouldn't matter in some situations.

For the last 20 years he's been trying to talk me into doing this but it would exhaust all my heated/cooled air for part of the year. His small shop is freezing and almost unusable right now in TN, can't imagine it in NH or MN or Saskatoon or the summer in the deep south. But I'm elderly and feeble and spoiled.

JKJ

Re: dust, chips, and exhaust fans

Yonak

It seems like a rather low-tech, inefficient, poorly conceived way of solving the problem. That he loses the ability to condition the environment of his shop being just one. Wouldn't critters get in, and snow ? ..Then there's the unsightly mess outside. I'm not surprised you've declined his suggestion.

Ditto x 3

Mark Mandell - Gone Round In New Jersey

For the Great Outdoors, put wheels on the lathe and turn outside. After all, what's a few flakes or bugs, right?

Re: dust, chips, and exhaust fans

John K Jordan

>>>It seems like a rather low-tech, inefficient, poorly conceived way of solving the problem. That he loses the ability to condition the environment of his shop being just one. Wouldn't critters get in, and snow ? ..Then there's the unsightly mess outside. I'm not surprised you've declined his suggestion.

You are correct, low low tech. And inexpensive.

It's quite efficient at removing sawdust, coarse and fine.

The tiny shop space is not heated or air conditioned, usually used only during nice weather with the garage door wide open.

There are louvers on the outside to keep out weather and critters. Snow around here is not common.

I wouldn't want the mess outside my shop but his fan is in a back room in his pottery studio and chips and sawdust blow down the hill into the woods.

As I said before, it's not for me because I have heat & air in my shop. In addition, my primary lathes are not on outside walls and I make what I consider effective use of the wall space.

But I don't fault him and his situation and the way he works. He doesn't turn much but he's very creative when he does, a life-long artist, and successful in his field (ceramics)! Woodturning is an occasional pasttime.

JKJ

Re: Dust catchers

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

NOW BAND SAW. Yes they are 1 gallon dust catchers!!!!!

I run the hose underneath the table where blade come thru,

split one side of pick up tube so it enclosed blade, rite under the table. Taped

that rascal in place. Attached electric so turning/power on/up saw

dust catcher come on. NO DUST IN SHOP from this!!!!

I have done the same, after watching a YouTube video by Rob Cosman.

I wrote it up as a pictorial on my website. My bandsaw is a Hammer N4400, but this should work with most bandsaws ...

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/Powered%20Tools%20and%20Machinery/HammerN4400DustControl.html

End cap now removed, offering better air flow.

Regards from Perth

Derek

Re: Dust catchers

Buck Nall

Ayy, U used PVC blade to pass thru. I used end of the pickup

tubing split on one side for blade to pass thru,

however they both work.

Regards from Deep South Ga. USA!!!

Buck Nall, Poor White Trash

Feeble ??

AZ in Colorado Springs

Hardly!

Re: dust, chips, and exhaust fans

William Duffield

It looks like you need a reverse switch on that fan.