Candidate For 2007 Idiot Of The Year Award - Me (and it's only Jan 7th)

charlie b · 2007-01-07T23:53:03+00:00

Dust Collector Mini-DisasterMy shop is divided into two 16? x20? rooms, one ?clean? and one fornoise and dust. I build a small room in the ?clean? room for my dustcollector and air compressor - with sound proof walls and a weatherstripped solid core door. There?s a pocket door between the Clean Roomand the Noise and Dust Room - handy if it?s raining or I need a longerwood alley for the bandsaw, which is has a mobility kit. (Here's the "shop" layout for those who have difficulty visualizingspaces given only a text description. The Sound Proof Room is in the upperleftcorner of the left larger room.) it?s been on my To Do List, running compressed air lines throughthe walls of the Sound Proof Room into the Clean Room and the Noise andDust Room, I hadn?t gotten around to actually doing it. Big mistake!So, if I need compressed air, like over at the lathe in the Noise andDust Room, I open the door of the Sound Proof Room enough to get an airhose out of it. A bit inconvenient but it works acceptably - untiltoday.Today I decided I wanted to try the pop bead type air nozzles I got fromEnco, at Detroit Bill?s suggestion, to blow crap out of a turned box Iwas hollowing. AND since I already had the 4? flex dust collector hosetemporarily behind the lathe - the dust and chips blown out of the boxwere sucked into the dust collector hose. Nice set up - and cut down onthe dust and debris in the Noise and Dust Room.An hour into hollowing and sanding and more hollowing and more sanding Iheard a noise from the Clean Room. Since I was turning the dustcollector on and off periodically, I guessed the upper felt bag on thedust collector had come off its support hook and, when the dustcollector was turned off, had collapsed suddenly and hit the metalgarbage can/separator.Maybe 10 minutes later I grabbed a handful of turning chisels and gougesand headed for the Clean Room - where the Tormek is located.Pulling back the pocket door between the shop?s major rooms I was hit inthe face...