It has arrived...

[Bob Savage]

Let the fun begin!

[Eric Mims]

I see a major problem with your setup. Your shop is way too clean!

[Bob Savage]

I see a major problem with your setup. Your shop is way too clean!

No doubt, and I need to enjoy while I can because it won't be long before that shiny new look will be gone!

[james mcgrew]

eric needs to tell you the story of trying to catch the dust while surfacing the spoilboard with a handheld shopvac.[lol]

i still chuckle at that one!!

jim

[Eric Mims]

hey, not so fast!! It wasn't a handheld shopvac, it was a 5" hose from my dust collector. It actually worked ok except for the fact that the 3" bit was sending stuff in every direction and I could only collect stuff from 1 side of the bit. How else you gonna level your spoilboard when there is no dust boot installed?

[james mcgrew]

if i had not made the same mistake i could not see it so vivdly!!

jim;moon

[Bob Savage]

You know, I'm just wondering if until I get my cyclone installed, I couldn't just let the dust fly and then "clean it up" the way gardeners do it, by simply blowing it out of my garage and into my neighbors yard.

Seems to be O.K. with the city...

[Joey Jarrard]

Put a flex hose and bungee it to the garage door track for now

[Eric Mims]

my dust collection hose is bungeed all over the ceiling.. I have very low ceilings which makes dust hose set up much more difficult.

if you can wait until your DC system is up and running, I'd do it. that fine dust will cover EVER SINGLE THING in your whole shop.

[Bob Savage]

Put a flex hose and bungee it to the garage door track for now

I don't actually have the Cyclone installed yet. A buddy that has a metal fab shop is building me a stand for it.


if you can wait until your DC system is up and running, I'd do it. that fine dust will cover EVER SINGLE THING in your whole shop.

I'm not planning on cutting anything until the Cyclone is up and running... not even foam.

[james mcgrew]

leaf blowers are the standard here!

jim

[Bob Savage]

leaf blowers are the standard here!

jim

Very little irritates me more than those things. They should be a filtered vacuum system, or illegal.

On another note, I see that you called. I can't chat right now, but I'll give you a call a bit later.

[james mcgrew]

we are in 22000 scuare feet of shop and once a month or so we don mask and blow it down so it can be sweeped up, ya gotta just imagine!!

jim

[Bob Savage]

we are in 22000 scuare feet of shop and once a month or so we don mask and blow it down so it can be sweeped up, ya gotta just imagine!!

jim

Dang, that sounds nasty!

I haven't seen any local gardeners use a broom in well over 10 years. Everything goes into the air to settle, and/or in the street.

[james mcgrew]

shop front machining section 10000 square feet

back are booth beyond cnc 12000.

[Bob Savage]

Thanks for the lesson tonight, Jim!

You've made this seem so simple that while I know there's much, much more to this than meets the eye, I think that if I had my dust collector hooked up, I could cut a simple vcarved sign right now!

Yeah, I might sacrifice a bit or two, but still. ;)

This is going to be fun...