Workbench tops prt. 2

Dan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:17:24 +0000

Last week I promised I would provide an updated MC histogram, so Friday night a broke out the moisture meter and took some readings. I found it really interesting, that in only 6 days some of the boards had shown significant changes in MC.

Since it was nice outside today (sunny and upper 50′s), & the SYP was close enough to equilibrium that it wouldn’t move around a lot when cut, I decided to rough cut the boards to size this afternoon. It’s amazing how much sawdust a table saw can generate in a few hours, you can see what I mean in the following photos

Rough cut boards

15 gallons of saw dust

Shop made dust collector

Dan — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:23:34 +0000

I recently picked up a jointer, and after a few minutes of use I realized it was time to get a dust collector. I don’t have space for a commercial collector, so as usual I turned to the net to look for alternatives. After a few hours of searching I came across Phil Thein’s website, and quickly realized I had found the solution I was looking for.

I constructed my dust collector from the following materials.

The motor of a Harbor Freight Mini Dust Collector
quarter sheet of 3/4″ MDF
quarter sheet of 1/4″ Hardboard
4″ elbow
30 gallon garbage can

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Workbench tops prt. 2

Shop made dust collector