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#341
The current state of the shop:

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It's funny that the miter saw box is bigger than pretty much everything else. There's probably a ton of styrofoam in there.

The other day I put together the mobile base for the bandsaw. I haven't tightened down the bolts yet.

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Today I made a mess of my living room putting together tool stands for the jointer and planer. Again, haven't tightened the bolts yet. It says to screw the top on before tightening anything. I want to put some polyurethane on that board first (the one in the picture). I have another one that has poly on it already that I'll use for one of them.

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I'm waiting to make the mobile bases for those until the stands are done so I know exactly what size to make them.
 
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#346
One hint, take down the curtains in the shop. Replace them with the wooden slatted blinds. Easier to keep clean, and the blinds can be opened or closed and up or down depending on need. But the curtains will become a mess quickly and you'll become frustrated with cleaning and maintaining them. This from experience.
 
#347
fjadams said:
One hint, take down the curtains in the shop. Replace them with the wooden slatted blinds. Easier to keep clean, and the blinds can be opened or closed and up or down depending on need. But the curtains will become a mess quickly and you'll become frustrated with cleaning and maintaining them. This from experience.
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I was gonna make the same suggestion.
 
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#348
Dust control is going to be a challenge. If there's a door into the space that connects to the rest of the house, make sure it's weatherstripped to keep fine dust out of the rest of the house. If you have any air returns in the room, might want to put filters over them. The other approach is one of the motorized fine dust filters that hang on a wall or ceiling, they catch the really fine stuff your cyclonic won't. I was always pretty lazy about dust control, but some of the exotics are really nasty allergens. I found out the hard way that I'm allergic to Ipe mahogany dust. Great idea on the roll around bases, makes it easy to reconfigure and get stuff out of the way. Are going with a tablesaw too? Just saw a contractor size Sawstop job site saw for the first time, pricey, but so are fingers. The Dewalt job site saw is nice too, rack & pinion fence, built in dust shroud and vacuum connection on the blade.
 
#349
Harbor freight has a couple of nice Compressors on sale right now. They also have an inexpensive roll around base kits. I got one of their dust collectors too and promptly reconfigured it to a Thein baffle type cyclone. Not only is it more efficient, but it takes up quite a bit less space. kind of like this one....

 
#350
Curtains are coming down (I mentioned this briefly in the first post about the shop), the sellers left them there. I'm just trying to mentally prepare myself for the spiders that might be on or behind them (also have been busy doing other stuff).

There is no air return in the room. I'll put a seal under the door.

I bought a 2 hp dust collector that I'm plugging the cyclone into to make a 2 stage collector.
 
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#352
Ol'Bass'ead said:
Harbor freight has a couple of nice Compressors on sale right now. They also have an inexpensive roll around base kits. I got one of their dust collectors too and promptly reconfigured it to a Thein baffle type cyclone. Not only is it more efficient, but it takes up quite a bit less space. kind of like this one....

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What are the advantages of it over the standard setup?

I already have a cyclone, so I figured it'd be easy to just plug a hose in between the 2 units. Most of the stuff should go in the cyclone bucket before it gets to the actual dust collector theoretically.

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If you have a shop vac, you can use the exhaust side of that to blow out your pool lines.

Of course air compressors are awesome, so you should get one anyway. :D
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I don't have a shop vac anymore (although I could borrow my parents'). I was looking at a pool winterizing topic on a website yesterday and they suggested that also. I'm thinking about maybe hiring someone to winterize the pool this year so I can watch and see what they do, but there's also a water pipe in the basement that goes outside that the sellers said I need to blow out too and I'm not sure if whoever I hired would do that too or not, so I figure I may still need something.
 
#354
I don't think it really gives you any advantage at all other than space savings. I have my DC set up to collect the dust in a 55 gallon drum so very little gets into the bag. I also have a small shed so it is housed outside of my work area.
 
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lbridenstine said:
Would you say this is the minimal size or is there any smaller I can get that would work? I'd have to use it in the basement and the garage, so portability would be a big plus.
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I use a 6 gallon compressor to spray my finishes. 6 gallons probably isn't sufficient for using an HVLP spray gun, so I use a 'conventional' (LVLP? LVHP? not sure) spray gun. @Hopkins uses HVLP, and I've seen him recommend that Harbor Freight compressor in more than one finishing thread.

If I had my choice of affordable compressors I would have gone with the Harbor Freight one I linked. But my compressor was gifted to me, so I got tools to make it work. I got this spray gun kit.A pneumatic nailer is damn convenient for making jigs. I've also used it to hold figured tops in place while I set the clamps. (Using little tabs I left in the wood, outside the final silhouette: http://i.imgur.com/IcpMKIN.jpg)

I'm not super great at spraying yet. Here's the result of my first try. It's a process, like any other. I have a couple of basses in progress now that will get sprayed satin clear coats, and I'm hoping for better results.
 
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#358
I picked up that exact compressor when it was on sale for the shop at work. It has been running strong ever since. And it does run every day. I found that the CFM rating isnt quite enough for extended D/A sessions, and my die grinder can suck it down pretty quick too, but I did paint my truck with it. And I used a HVLP gun. Over all, I cant say anything bad about it.
 
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HaMMerHeD said:
I use a 6 gallon compressor to spray my finishes. 6 gallons probably isn't sufficient for using an HVLP spray gun, so I use a 'conventional' (LVLP? LVHP? not sure) spray gun. @Hopkins uses HVLP, and I've seen him recommend that Harbor Freight compressor in more than one finishing thread.
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Actually, my guns are either conventional or HVLP compliant, neither of them are true HVLP guns, and I don't really recommend HVLP for guitar finishing. They just use so much air and and do not atomize as well as conventional. That compressor would do ok with a conventional gun, and will be perfect for LVLP.

As far as that compressor goes, it is oil lubricated which is a big plus, but I would prefer that it had a separate pump and motor.

These are the two guns I spray with, both need about 28-35 psi at the tip, so neither are low pressure guns
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