What did you do in your shop today?

2feathers Creative Making said:
Would love to hear how the deputy works
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I made a thread about it and will post results of how it works in the thread.

Oneida 4"Dust Deputy

I purchased a 4" dust deputy to add to a collection drum I got for free. It should make emptying easier and prevent a lot of dust from making its way to the filter. I could have made a thein separator but I just wanted quick and easy this time around. 4" dust deputy purchased from woodcraft for...
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I finished up my DC cyclone by adding a sight window to the drum so I know when it's time to empty.
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Then I brought a bunch of strips of oak in from the garage to make some moldings for the bedroom.
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I cut them down to 7' lengths so it would be easier to plane them and run then through a router table.
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One of the iron pipes in the basement decided to drip on my machines rotary table! When I discovered it I about cried. Glad I caught it when I did or it could have been much worse rust wise. This is a $1,000 rotary table for my mill.
I sprayed it down with wd40 and let it sit for about a week.
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Applied lots of elbow grease with wd40, a scotchbrite pad, and some 600 grit emery cloth.
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I saved it, it cleaned up nice.
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It is now back on its cart, covered in way oil and under plastic to protect it.
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Remember this guy's? I'm getting closer to putting it back together. This is what the rotary table is for.
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All the parts for the mill are in this corner.
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After I cleaned the rotary table I milled up some red oak for some trim boards for the house, gonna trim the bedroom out in red oak.
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This is a project I finished up today. Been working on it for a few weeks now, as time allows.

Last year we purchased a nice trailer for hauling our camping gear on trips. Our Space Trailer certainly wasn't cheap, but it is extremely well made to last, keeps our gear dry, and fits our needs perfectly. We tent camp and prefer a more rustic camping experience, which means no electrical hookups, etc. The one challenge with that is we do need power to run a piece of medical equipment through the night and we usually do one or two week long trips, plus a few shorter trips, each summer. I'd previously invested in a solar panel, charge controller, and a pair of AGM deep cycle batteries that we've used on trips and were planning to use in a cargo trailer to camper conversion build that we've since put on hold for a while. With now having our trailer, we wanted an always ready to go setup that wouldn't have to be set up every time we're camping and we wanted to add a box on to the front of the trailer, rather than in the trailer. This gives us the flexibility to camp anywhere we might want to, without having to give thought to making sure we have an electrical hookup.

Had a friend help me weld up a frame to mount it. Coated with truck bed liner.

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Box mounted on the frame.

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Internals - the batteries and wiring are all beneath the walnut panels. The extra space will be used for some lightweight items that we want easy access to.

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Sprung said:
This is a project I finished up today. Been working on it for a few weeks now, as time allows.

Last year we purchased a nice trailer for hauling our camping gear on trips. Our Space Trailer certainly wasn't cheap, but it is extremely well made to last, keeps our gear dry, and fits our needs perfectly. We tent camp and prefer a more rustic camping experience, which means no electrical hookups, etc. The one challenge with that is we do need power to run a piece of medical equipment through the night and we usually do one or two week long trips, plus a few shorter trips, each summer. I'd previously invested in a solar panel, charge controller, and a pair of AGM deep cycle batteries that we've used on trips and were planning to use in a cargo trailer to camper conversion build that we've since put on hold for a while. With now having our trailer, we wanted an always ready to go setup that wouldn't have to be set up every time we're camping and we wanted to add a box on to the front of the trailer, rather than in the trailer. This gives us the flexibility to camp anywhere we might want to, without having to give thought to making sure we have an electrical hookup.

Had a friend help me weld up a frame to mount it. Coated with truck bed liner.

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Box mounted on the frame.

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Internals - the batteries and wiring are all beneath the walnut panels. The extra space will be used for some lightweight items that we want easy access to.

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Looks nice. I've seen a few like this. An old timer had one similar, but had the box reversed, so the lid opened toward the tow vehicle. I asked his reasoning. They travel 3 seasons and kick up from the road cakes the front. The accsess push buttons can freeze. If you forget to lock it, on really bumpy roads the lid could pop open, and hinging toward the tow vehicle allows wind to possibly blow it shut versus rack the hinge and damage the lid. There might have been other reasons, but don't recall...

The other ones I saw, one was like you have it, and the others had the butterfly wing tops. Think a few of them were black plastic, but its been some time.

Good luck with the new set up. I been icthing to go, just not the same without family along for the ride.
 
Picked up a 60 tooth blade for my Milwaukie circular saw.
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And then set up to cut the ywood for the new outfeed tables for my table saw.
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Cut like buttah!
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The Milwaukee stays in the wood shop, it's incredibly smooth and very adjustable. I have a good dewalt that I use for general purpose stuff.
 
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woodtickgreg said:
Picked up a 60 tooth blade for my Milwaukie circular saw.
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And then set up to cut the ywood for the new outfeed tables for my table saw.
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Cut like buttah!
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The Milwaukee stays in the wood shop, it's incredibly smooth and very adjustable. I have a good dewalt that I use for general purpose stuff.
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I like that style saw. It fits several different size folks with that adjustable handle. Have one of those on the work truck.
 
2feathers Creative Making said:
I like that style saw. It fits several different size folks with that adjustable handle. Have one of those on the work truck.
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Yup its pretty slick. Even when you set it for a shallow cut like I was making the handle would normally be sticking up in a wierd angle, butt I dropped the handle down all the way and that made it very comfortable to use.
 
Well, it wasnt in my shop, but my coworker came over about 8 oclock and we made a day of making sawdust. A friend had given him 10 white pine logs. 8 footers. He is building a shop as well. We flat sawed them at 1 and 5/8 and he will RIP them to final 3 and 1/2 width at home. The boss was nice and let him borrow a dump truck this weekend. 20210531_160701.webp 20210531_160656.webp 20210531_160646.webp 20210531_160707.webp
We spent 30 minutes or so re setting the sawmill rather than moving the logs around. So all this sawdust is from today
 
Millin like a villain as Kevin would say. Milling is always fun, hard work but still fun. Nice pile of boards.
 
This is all that is left….

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….of this after giving much away to folks in the turning club.

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Today I was able to begin roughing out those I set aside.

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Mark is correct, the front stack is cherry. The stuff behind that is a mix of sycamore, walnut, locust, eastern red cedar and maple.
 
@Tom Smart I love the pic of the lathe with all the shavings on it. I dig turning sessions like that, I just get into it and tune out the world. Me thinks I need to do some of that soon after I get a couple other projects out of the way.
 
woodtickgreg said:
@Tom Smart I love the pic of the lathe with all the shavings on it. I dig turning sessions like that, I just get into it and tune out the world. Me thinks I need to do some of that soon after I get a couple other projects out of the way.
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The wood was so wet it threw water across the room. Things on the bench behind the lathe were soaked as was my shirt and face shield. These will take awhile to dry enough for final turning, especially since I resealed them. Even though they were waxed the ways on the lathe rusted right away.
 
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Looks like a fun day Tom. I like to turn wet wood. So far I’ve found wet Russian olive is the messiest and a pain to clean up. I also find that my mats and concrete floors get pretty slick while turning sealed wood. Still working on that one.
 
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