DUST COLLECTION SYSTEM
Upon setting up my basement woodworking shop prior to manufacturing
turkey
box calls, a dust collection system was a priority being in such close
quarters. The area of the basement for my woodworking shop was
originally a basement garage which also housed the heating and air
plenum duct works and a fuel oil fired furnace.TREE
STANDS MANUFACTURED
My first usage of this space was when I manufactured my own patented
foot climber tree stands;
US Patents
4953662 and
5167298,
of which I initially manufactured them at the
old home place on White
Store Road starting in 1986, whereas I converted a large school bus into
a shop just for manufacturing said tree stands at that
location until
1989 when we purchased our current home.
I had my welding fixtures near the garage door opening to keep from
getting asphyxiated from the mig welding fumes generated from
welding thin wall EMT, (electrical mechanical tubing), galvanized
finish and used
the basement garage for eleven (11) years until the year 2000 for that
purpose.
LAST TREE STANDS MANUFACTURED
In the background, you can see a Di-Acro # 4 Bender. There were
twenty-four (24) bends total for this stand!
YEAP, GOT ON A RABBIT TRAIL AKA SIDE TRACKED
With the prior history out of the way.......grin if you must, I
converted firearms not being used into cash via our local Village Gun
and Pawn shop and obtained some excellent deals (cash flow) since the
firearms had appreciated greatly in value over the decades/years and purchased the necessary equipment;
e.g., table saw, dust collection system, planer, jointer, compound miter
saw, air compressor, drill press, band saw, router table,
sanding station and many small wood working tools and accessories.
DUST COLLECTION SYSTEM
I installed 4 inch PVC thin wall sewer pipe to run overhead and had the table
saw connected to it via flexible 4 inch dust collection hose. The input
to the Delta 1.5 HP dust collector has two inputs and used one input for
the table saw and the other input for the planer, jointer and router
table. There are three (3) cut-off traps aka blast gates, one at the
table saw, another one on the flexible hose to the planer (to be
installed) and one next
to the pvc line going to the sanding station.
Above wood acclimating to the basement humidity and will start a couple
projects very soon.
Below pix of a straight connection, whereas I removed the blast gate
to install between the tee connection and flexible hose to the planer,
router table and jointer as needed.
In the past, I switched the flexible hose to the planer, jointer
and router table as needed . As stated earlier, space is at a premium and had
to attach the flexible hose between the planer, jointer and router
table. The planer stayed in place and moved the jointer and router
table into position when needed. However, the sanding station was
never attached to the dust collection system and had to manually vacuum
the dust up after usage.
The band saw uses a separate SHOP VAC for dust collection and
used the same SHOP VAC for other areas as needed.
The compound miter saw has its own dedicated SHOP VAC.
MORE 4 INCH PVC PIPE INSTALLED
I had just enough 4 inch pvc sewer pipe left over when I installed a
new drain
system for the house front gutters to install above the
garage door abutting the overhead floor joists for a dedicated dust line
to the sanding station. I had to purchase a couple 90 degree
elbows for the thin wall PVC sewer drain line and a fresh container of
all-purpose glue. However, the sanding station was never
attached to the dust collection system and had to manually vacuum the
dust up after usage.
I plan to dismantle the
portable shooting
bench and Sinclair rest, bottom left in the above pix and store it out of the way.
In order to finish this project, I ordered a 4 inch tee connector for
the 4 inch dust collection hose. I have an extra dust collection
trap aka blast gate and will install it to the input of the dust
collection line going to the sanding station when the tee connection
arrives.
TEE CONNECTOR ARRIVED
The tee connector arrived on 01-18-2022 and have it in place with the
blast gate installed ahead of the flexible tubing going to the planer,
jointer and router table, of which I will rotate the hose as necessary.
This should provide a more dust free atmosphere for the basement
woodworking shop, although dust is inevitable!
I also added a more flexible 4 inch dust collection hose that will
rotate between the planer, router table and jointer.
Web page uploaded by Bill aka Mickey Porter on 01-14-2022 and updated
on 01-19-2022.
EMPTIED DUST COLLECTION BAG
On 03-02-2022, I emptied the dust collection bag and applied it to our
tomato patch area. The top cloth bag was taken outside and beat
with a stick trying to get sawdust and chips from the inside and went
over the entire bag with high pressure air hose.
Web page updated by
Bill aka Mickey Porter on 03-05-2022.
LEAVING ON A
SPIRITUAL NOTE
If you do not know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, please take
this moment to accept him by Faith into your Life, whereby Salvation
will be attained.
Ephesians 2:8 - 2:9 8 For by grace are ye saved through
faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: 9 Not of
works, lest any man should boast.
Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.”
Romans 10:17 “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
the word of God.”
Open this
link about faith in the King James
Bible.
Romans 10:9 “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the
Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him
from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
Open this
link of Bible Verses About Salvation,
King James Version Bible (KJV).
Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and
sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder
of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of
the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of
God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory
of God;”
Micah 6:8 “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what
doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and
to walk humbly with thy God?”
Philippians 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ which
strengtheneth me."