G+_William Burlingame Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 Today’s Know How episode reminded me of a project I did nearly 10 years ago. My wife talked me into remodeling our kitchen. I didn’t have a wood shop, but we do have a basement. I bought some wood working tools and began the project. I didn’t take long to hear about the saw dust that was drifting into the living quarters of the house. I found a site that had instructions about building a dust collection system at: http://www.jpthien.com/cy.htm Below is a link to some pictures of the dust collector and parts. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxhrU7y6ITQFend5M0UwOVMzQ2c I made a jig to cut a circle with a hand held router and used a bead of silicon to form a gasket so that I had a tight seal with the garbage can. I used a lubricant to keep the silicon bead from sticking to the edge of the garbage can. Since the rim of the garbage isn’t perfectly round, I marked to rim and the top so I could keep them oriented properly. The pin for the pivot is just the tip of a nail epoxied to a block of wood. I also built a stand for it because I have limited floor space. When in use, it will fill up the http://www.jpthien.com/cy.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Eddie Foy Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Cool. Simple is always best. And Dyson eludes to inventing this over century old concept. (Sorry to rant, but Dyson rubs me the wrong way in a big way) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Marsh Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Eddie Foy Maybe you're using it wrong? :) I'll say this, nothing new is built worth a squat anymore. Mom's old Hoovers are still running strong, but my wife's been through a number of newer, cheaply built, but quite expensive vacuum cleaners. We'll never get the quality of yore again. William Burlingame Today we call inventive or tinkering people makers, hackers, or geeks,, but back in the day they were just known as handy people (who could build awesome stuff). It's a shame that having practical engineering skills, which I consider part of the skillset of most old farmers and ranchers, is now so rare that we have a name for people with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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