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I made a thing! / Re: Modifying Thicknesser extractor hood
« Last post by Maker of Things on October 22, 2013, 12:37:00 PM »This is the clearance under the 'squashed' soil pipe.
Plenty of room for safety.
Plenty of room for safety.
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I made a thing! / Re: Modifying Thicknesser extractor hood
« Last post by Maker of Things on October 22, 2013, 12:35:43 PM »The modified extractor hood has been refitted to the thicknesser and tested.
It was quite happy processing an 8" wide floor board with no blockages!
Success!
It was quite happy processing an 8" wide floor board with no blockages!
Success!
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I made a thing! / Re: Modifying Thicknesser extractor hood
« Last post by Maker of Things on October 21, 2013, 08:53:30 PM »This is a side view of the finished assembly.
It shows the soil pipe falling below the hood and cut away to clear the back of the planer head. That does, of course, leave a gap.
To fill the gap I cut and shaped a piece of wood, as you do, and screwed and sealed it into the space. It is shaped on the inside to provide a smoother line for the air to flow past.
When the sealant has cured I will test it, maybe tomorrow.
It shows the soil pipe falling below the hood and cut away to clear the back of the planer head. That does, of course, leave a gap.
To fill the gap I cut and shaped a piece of wood, as you do, and screwed and sealed it into the space. It is shaped on the inside to provide a smoother line for the air to flow past.
When the sealant has cured I will test it, maybe tomorrow.
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I made a thing! / Re: Modifying Thicknesser extractor hood
« Last post by Maker of Things on October 21, 2013, 08:48:39 PM »The modified soil pipe was then fitted to the extractor hood and carefully marked out and trimmed to fit.
It had to fit around the back edge of the planer head too and also provide tabs to bend around the inside of the hood for fixing.
There was much adjustment and heating and bending and reforming the soil pipe until I was happy with the fit and the clearance for the exiting timber.
This took the longest to sort out but finally I was able to pop rivet the hood to the soil pipe tabs and then apply sealant to the inside of the join.
The exit now also points in the right direction for the straightest line to the chip extractor without needing too many bends in the very draggy flexible hose.
It had to fit around the back edge of the planer head too and also provide tabs to bend around the inside of the hood for fixing.
There was much adjustment and heating and bending and reforming the soil pipe until I was happy with the fit and the clearance for the exiting timber.
This took the longest to sort out but finally I was able to pop rivet the hood to the soil pipe tabs and then apply sealant to the inside of the join.
The exit now also points in the right direction for the straightest line to the chip extractor without needing too many bends in the very draggy flexible hose.
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I made a thing! / Re: Modifying Thicknesser extractor hood
« Last post by Maker of Things on October 21, 2013, 08:43:11 PM »Next I used the soil pipe duct to mark the outlet profile on the extractor hood.
The Point of no return. The unwanted tiny outlet was then cut out with a Dremel mounted circular saw blade. That gave my workshop a good covering of black static 'snow'.
There was a lot of adjustment needed to ensure a good fit.
The Point of no return. The unwanted tiny outlet was then cut out with a Dremel mounted circular saw blade. That gave my workshop a good covering of black static 'snow'.
There was a lot of adjustment needed to ensure a good fit.
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I made a thing! / Re: Modifying Thicknesser extractor hood
« Last post by Maker of Things on October 21, 2013, 08:40:16 PM »To increase the bore I dug out a 4" soil pipe elbow and reformed one end of it with the help of a hot air gun.
Not a difficult task but the PVC gets soft all of a sudden and then takes quite a while, or a lot of blowing on it, to get it to freeze again.
I had to squash one end down to ensure that the thicknesser can still operate at its fill capacity without the new duct getting in the way of the raised planer head, or the exiting timber.
Not a difficult task but the PVC gets soft all of a sudden and then takes quite a while, or a lot of blowing on it, to get it to freeze again.
I had to squash one end down to ensure that the thicknesser can still operate at its fill capacity without the new duct getting in the way of the raised planer head, or the exiting timber.
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I made a thing! / Modifying Thicknesser extractor hood
« Last post by Maker of Things on October 21, 2013, 08:37:17 PM »I have a Jet 12" x 8" thicknesser in my workshop. It is used to plane timber to a uniform thickness and can handle boards up to 12" wide.
The chip extractor, however, can barely cope with the chips from a 4" wide board and anything much wider and the extractor hood clogs up and needs cleaning. Not good when a board is still being fed through!
So today I removed the hood and looked at ways to improve it.
This is the current set up. The extractor hood outlet is only 1.5" bore.
The chip extractor, however, can barely cope with the chips from a 4" wide board and anything much wider and the extractor hood clogs up and needs cleaning. Not good when a board is still being fed through!
So today I removed the hood and looked at ways to improve it.
This is the current set up. The extractor hood outlet is only 1.5" bore.
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General Chat / Re: Tea? Coffee? Cake?
« Last post by Maker of Things on October 21, 2013, 08:32:33 PM »I was really getting fed up with my new Bosch drill. As fantastic as it seems to be it lacks driver bit holders so I am constantly ferreting about looking for that No2 Pozidrive amongst all the other driver bits I keep with the drill.
My last drill, a Dewalt, had one bit holder that I used for a flat/No2 Philips bit, and two Sugru bit holders for No2 and No3 pozidrive bits.
So I needed the same for the Bosch. Unfortunately my pack of Sugru is now out of date and useless.
My solution was to dig out an old Black and Decker rubber bit holder strip and use that!
The Bosch has a belt clip on the left of the battery and a matching captive M4 nut on the right hand side for swapping over for left handed trades.
I inserted a bit of dowel into one of the holes in the rubber bit holder strip and drilled a 4mm hole through it. I then screwed it to the right side of the drill and loaded it up!
Perfect!
My last drill, a Dewalt, had one bit holder that I used for a flat/No2 Philips bit, and two Sugru bit holders for No2 and No3 pozidrive bits.
So I needed the same for the Bosch. Unfortunately my pack of Sugru is now out of date and useless.
My solution was to dig out an old Black and Decker rubber bit holder strip and use that!
The Bosch has a belt clip on the left of the battery and a matching captive M4 nut on the right hand side for swapping over for left handed trades.
I inserted a bit of dowel into one of the holes in the rubber bit holder strip and drilled a 4mm hole through it. I then screwed it to the right side of the drill and loaded it up!
Perfect!
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I made a thing! / Re: Electrified MaKey Makey Jubjub birds
« Last post by nikki on October 20, 2013, 10:48:01 PM »One of the feedback form responses we had for the "what did you enjoy most?" type question was something like "the opportunity to be creative with my children".
I'm sure we could extend to 3 generations
I'm sure we could extend to 3 generations
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General Chat / Re: Tea? Coffee? Cake?
« Last post by Maker of Things on October 20, 2013, 10:21:15 PM »Look forward to see what you paint.
I've never been much of an image artist, I can sketch but I prefer working in 3D.
Today, whilst consuming much tea Arch and I got on with some more work on the house. Arch PVAed the fresh plaster in preparation for painting while I changed some plumbing to fit two replacement (as in not leaking) radiators and then cauked all the gappy and slightly rough internal edges.
Then while Arch painted some cupboard doors in the bathroom I started sorting the missing floorboards and moving the consumer unit up an inch for clearance.
By next weekend we should have paint on the walls and all the floors down. Maybe even skirtings and architrave, if I am not too busy on paid work.
I've never been much of an image artist, I can sketch but I prefer working in 3D.
Today, whilst consuming much tea Arch and I got on with some more work on the house. Arch PVAed the fresh plaster in preparation for painting while I changed some plumbing to fit two replacement (as in not leaking) radiators and then cauked all the gappy and slightly rough internal edges.
Then while Arch painted some cupboard doors in the bathroom I started sorting the missing floorboards and moving the consumer unit up an inch for clearance.
By next weekend we should have paint on the walls and all the floors down. Maybe even skirtings and architrave, if I am not too busy on paid work.