A quieter wood thickness planer?

Ok before the nieghbors get together and convene a special meeting of the HOA and push some iminant domain thing, I am in the process of quieting down some of my tools in the garage, from insulating the walls and dry walling to creating a vibration separation of rubber between plywood on which the planer (Delta 22-780X X5 15") sits on roller frame.

While the rubber/plywood has removed any vibration I used to feel comming up my legs from the concrete floor, the sound is still loud once the vacuum is turned on. When running the planer without the vacuum, its fairly quiet, but once the vacuum is turned on and pulling wind across those blades the planer can be heard a short distance from the garage -not good.

My next move is to limit the amount of vacuum force by opeing another port on the vacuum line. But other than that Im out of ideas and was hoping someone out here would have better ideas.

Thanks, Martin

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dado_maker
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Two ideas. If anybody's within "a short distance from the garage", charge them with trespassing. The other is to move.

Reply to
CW

my neighbors say that the noise from my tools is not as loud as I think it is. once you get outside the garage the noise drops off considerably. If you want to please them make them something and let them see what is going on there and what the noise is all about it will make it harder for them to complain.

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Jim & Sharon

Plane while your neighbor's mowing his lawn?

The planer will work without the chip collection, too.

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George

The air moving past the blades gets "chopped" similar to how an old fashioned siren (rotary) works. There is a substantial sound level difference on my planer as well when I pull the DC line off. The bottom line is if you cut back too much on the DC, you'll start having chip imprints in the wood. Tom

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Thomas Bunetta

Move, and stay far away from homeowner associations? Do you have a basement? You can put the really noisy stuff in the basement. Basement shops absorb a lot of noise with the earth packed around the walls.

Other than that, maybe make the home shop a neander shop, and rent a small industrial condo, or a corner of a pro shop for the big iron. I know of an owner of a woodworking school who has a home shop in a condo bedroom. His only power tool at home is a band saw.

Most big planers I seen make most of the noise with the cutterhead, not the motor(s). The cutterhead can sound like an air raid siren.

Everyone I've ever met that has some sort of passion outside of golf, (woodworking, amateur radio, musicians, classic cars, tiddlywinks, etc...) that has purchased a home where an HOA exists has regretted the move.

Barry

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Ba r r y

Talking about "pulling wind" ... you'll suck them in with this one, to be sure.

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Guess who

My planer got much quieter when I changed the blades. I hadn't realized how dull they had gotten.

Allen

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Allen

How much of a difference did you see when you used the new blades?

Reply to
Upscale

True on lunchbox types, but this is an iron one. I own the grandfather of his and it works remarkably well without collection, because it has that chip breaker inside.

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George

dado_maker wrote: snip of suburban blues

#8 Stanley.

Dave in Fairfax (townhouse)

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Dave in Fairfax

I live in a 2 1/2 story townhouse, shop in half the garage. The garage opens out onto a city-owned alley, with condos on each side, running about 2 blocks. Even tho I buy my tools with low noise in mind, I was getting an occasional complaint from one neighbor across the way, who would leave her windows open and get too much noise. It's been my experience the buildings actually amplify noise. We live under an airport flight path (in certain wind conditions), a

4-5 daily helicopter flight path, have gardeners who use loud leaf blowers, and have kids skateboarding and riding those chainsaw motorized scooters in the alley, but of course my tools are the only thing she complains about. Over the last 5-6 months, she's been having her place extensively remodeled, with lots of contractor noise. Funny, havn't heard a word from her lately, and I was kinda hoping to, so I could put her in her place. Seems HER noise is somehow less bothersome than MY noise (same or less level) I even built a cabinet lined with sound board for my router table that holds my shop vac, formerly my loudest motors. Now I have a real dust collector that's much quieter. The portable planer is my loudest tool, along with my router, so when I use them, sometimes I remember to shut the garage door just when they're on. Other times, I need the light and air. It gets over 90 there in the summer. When I'm not making a commission for someone, I've moved on to turning on the lathe, with occasional bandsaw to cut blanks. Very quiet and enjoyable, and can be profitable. Ever tried turning?
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gpdewitt

While not amplified, the noise can be traveling is such a manner as to be heard at higher levels than you think. I've seen situations where you can be 5 feet, 15 feet, from the source of the noise and it is not a bother, but

100 feet away it is very annoying. The sound wave just travel up and over it seems and reach certain areas loudly. Maybe a simple baffle at your door would shut her up.

When our town has concerts in the park, I can sit on my deck and listen to them and hear them better sitting on my deck 1.5 miles away that if I was just across the street from the band shell. Friday night we enjoyed the Coast Guard band in the comfort of our own yard.

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Edwin Pawlowski

This unit also works well without the dust collector attached, seems to do a good job displacing the chips.

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dado_maker

Have always steered cleared but this HOA is a lite one with a fee of $120/year covering the work of a treasurer I suppose. Im just keeping ahead of any future problems -so far no one has complained.

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dado_maker

Although I haven't had a chance to really check them out or use them, the helical cutter head planers are supposed to be much quieter. They seem to be reserved more for the industrial machines, and not the small shop and hobbyist woodworkers. I know that there are retro fit cutterheads for some machines. robo hippy

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robo hippy

Allow those to air their thoughts, I suppose.

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dado_maker

I used to do sound at a nightclub that had an underground sewer pipe of the perfect dimensions to transmit and amplify certain bass frequencies, ala pipe organ.

Several homes the perfect distance from the club became unbearable while the band played.

The club is now a steakhouse.

Barry

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Ba r r y

I doubt that they actually amplify the noise but certainly buildings serve as excellent waveguides for some acoustic frequencies. Although thinking about it now you could get spots where you get constructive interference of the acoustic transmission multipaths which could make that spot much louder than it intuitively would be. It's the principle of the whisper room in the capitol building in DC.

That's only going to occur in certain spots though and only in the presence of fairly smooth acoustic reflectors.

ml

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kzinNOSPAM99

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