That and a 2 stage reduces your flow and that is only 4" and your dust collector will have the main 6", so you will have even more reduced air flow. Something to think about.
Thickness planers will fill your bags like someone inflated an emergency raft. One second it's empty, the other it's full. That thing is meant to fill a garbage can and be really easy to empty. If you get it, get it after the cyclone... put put it before cyclone in your dust extraction conduit. Use that to let the big shit be easy to empty, and the cyclone to save your filter on your extractor.
Exactly. You are now drawing a vacuum on the volume of your line, but also the volume of the can it's on, as well as the huge drag it introduces... which kills air velocity. If you can, use smooth lines for your hoses... not that cheap dryer vent looking crap... it makes a HUGE difference. I ran my whole shop with PVC pipe. The only flex hose is between the blower and the separator/filter. Stay away from 90° bends... keep them gradual.
Yep... if you "nudge" the direction of the air, it maintains velocity much better... a 90° bend is basically slamming the air into a wall and then pulling it into another, new direction.
Yeah I was planning on gradual bends, even to the point of heating sections of pipe into curves. Any of you do anything with lathes? My shopsmith can function as a lathe and I'm dying to try it. Watching wood turning videos on youtube makes it look so easy.
I have a really nice one that i haven't really used at all. Fucking house taking up all my time. I need a low speed 8" grinder to sharpen my tools first thou. I am so jealous of all of you actually doing wood working.
The only woodworking I'm doing in the next week is framing walls for my workshop. I have a shitload of tools sitting around doing nothing until the workshop is finished.
Yeah, when I bought the shopsmith from my wife's uncle, it came with turning tools. I am planning on dedicating it to lathe/horizontal bore duty as I already have a drill press and want to buy a cabinet saw. I want to make this:
When my dad died I was given his Shopsmith, but really, I just have no desire to do any turning. Not sure why that is, really. Current project is an enclosed server rack for all of my computer gear in my office. It's basically a wood cabinet, with temp-controlled fans, filtered air flow, sound suppression, remote control Hue light strip, and a security glass front door. It's basically going to hold all of my drives, routers, switches, and smaller computers that I use for torrenting. It's designed to sit on wheels and will fit right under my desk. Once that's done, I can then relocate all my gear out of the office, and then rip the office up. Here's the temp setup in the family room in front of the fireplace... it doesn't suck, at least not yet.
Today was a good day... I pulled the trigger on a new table saw. Nothing fancy, just the Ridgid cast iron 13 amp unit from Home Depot. It was on sale, and had free delivery (which was a bonus given the shit weather we're having), so it was pretty attractive. It was about half the price of the next level saw (a King, Laguna, Craftex entry level "cabinet" saw), but as much as I was tempted, I just couldn't really justify it. I'm sure that this saw will be more of a saw than I will be able to take advantage of. It replaces the portable Ridgid contract saw I have been using up until now. A huge update I'm really happy for is the proper 4" dust collection... until now, my current saw throws a ton of sawdust everywhere despite my best efforts... it just wasn't designed for anything more than a shop-vac and outside use. Almost got it assembled tonight, but it won't be running until tomorrow.
I'm years away from actually having a shop of my own, but I know that if I buy a Saw Stop, I'll never trigger it, but if I buy anything else, I'll cut my finger off and curse myself for not buying a Saw Stop.
I'm debating pulling the trigger on this for the shop: https://www.lowes.com/pd/DELTA-13-Amp-10-in-Carbide-Tipped-Table-Saw/50081568 What do y'all think? It's the same price as the one Nett just got, looks very similar. My local Home Depot doesn't have the Ridgid in stock, where my local Lowe's does have the Delta ready to go.