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I've been ignoring a general rule of woodworking...

Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 11:10 pm
by ChrisNeilan
Keep you shop floor uncluttered! It's amazing how much debris accumulates on a shop floor. I always vow to clean up when done for the night, but seldom do. Tonight all projects got put on hold until it's safe to walk for one corner to another. I feel better (and safer) already, and I can't believe the things I've found long lost, now safe where they belong!

Re: I've been ignoring a general rule of woodworking...

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 9:53 am
by Gene Howe
It's strange how trips to the hardware store can be lessened after cleaning. And my pencil cup gets fuller, too.

Re: I've been ignoring a general rule of woodworking...

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 10:00 am
by JPG
One advantage of the DC3300 is it will not suck up heavier 'parts' while snatching the debris. A dust deputy in line is de rigor here(on those rare occasions when utilized) :D .

Re: I've been ignoring a general rule of woodworking...

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 3:41 pm
by dusty
Try not to suck up heavier items in the DC3000. The turbine blade in the DC is made of plastic. Those heavier items, when sucked into the DC do "not nice things" to that plastic blade.

It is not cheap, either.

http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/item ... tem=515419

Re: I've been ignoring a general rule of woodworking...

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 11:03 pm
by beeg
dusty wrote:Try not to suck up heavier items in the DC3000. The turbine blade in the DC is made of plastic. Those heavier items, when sucked into the DC do "not nice things" to that plastic blade.

It is not cheap, either.

http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/item ... tem=515419
You mean like a knob from the bandsaw cover laying on the table your sucking sawdust off of? :eek: No FUN retrieving that from the bag. It wasn't till much later, when cleaning the dust off the top of the fan housing, I found a chunk of plastic.

Re: I've been ignoring a general rule of woodworking...

Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 9:50 am
by dusty
Yeah! Just like that. I got my first lesson not with a knob but something just as destructive. I sucked up a knot of wood. What an awful noise that makes when it meets the whirling disk.