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General Category => General Scroll Saw Talk => Topic started by: jimbo on June 22, 2010, 03:33:33 am
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The the new saw I have bought does not have a dust extracter port and I found dust was every where down my trousers all over the floor and the work shop so I have made an extraction box that has a vac plugged into it, the base id screwed to the stand nad the sides and front are removable, they are held by a hole I have drilled and an nail inserted on the left hand side, if you are haveinfg a dust problem try it it cost nothing to make only a small amount of time, here are couple of pics
Jimbo
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Good job Jimbo, is the vac an ordinary one or a shop vac.
What about the noise factor, I use a shop vac and the noise is quite off putting, but have plans to install the vac outside the shop inside an old fridge, to keep the noise down. Well when I find an old fridge that is.
Merlin
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Good idea, necessity is the mother of all inventions. Try using an old clothes dryer motor and fan. Vent it to the outside. Very low noise. 8)
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I wear an apron and then shop-vac when I'm done cutting or when the dust completely covers the pen blanks I have sitting under the front of "Old Yeller".
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That's neat! Good use for some MDF scrap I have!
I note the sunglasses by the saw! You must have REALLY polished that table!!!
I am looking to pick up a Whole house Vacuum unit some day from FreeCycle or ReUseIt and mount that in the closet in the garage to get rid of the shop vac noise!
Patience and ingenuity!!!
~~~GrayBeard!!!
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Very good idea...I could use that on my DeWalt. Thanks for the pics!
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I use a domestic vac I had given to me, ther is a plastic pipe on the side that I put the vac hose in, the noise factor is not bad, I have tried a small heat exchange fan with a 4" hose with filrter, that wasnt to bad, the vac is a lot better.
The glasses you see Graybeard are a stronger reading glasses I use for finer work, not sunnies
Jimbo
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Sorry...I thought they were mirrored like those of the local 'redneck' law enforcement types in the south!
I know whereof you speak! I have medium glasses and 'close-up' glasses in every location around the place! Plus the close-ups I wear around my neck.
If I could reach across the street I could scroll just fine but up close I am in trouble!
~~~GrayBeard~~~
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Believe it not it was a sunny day when I took the photos and it must have been the reflection, BUT we are back to 7c today
Jimbo
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Better that than the 98? F we had yesterday! [humidity was way up too!]
You can always put more clothes on but there is only so much you can take off and still go out in public or work safely!