On 8/16/2022 3:46 PM, Snag wrote:
> I've always hated cleaning up the chips and occasional long spirals
> after/during doing a project . Today I picked up a 3 gallon "shop vac"
> unit at WallyWorld , around 36 bucks , for just that task . My machines
> are going to have a lot less chips layin' around now . It's really cool
> how all the chips go right to the bottom , and the bigger stuff that
> might clog the hose (I'm using the "crevice tool" to limit size) will
> collect on the end of the tool to be easily removed and dropped in the
> trash container . Definitely worth the price for me . YMMV .
I have been amazed at the pile of chips that build up on the base of the
big mill and in the chip pan of the lathe. Very quickly too. I'm used
to mucking out the CNC mills, but the manual machines can generate
serious piles of chips as well.
A shop vac is a help... but I have burned one up already. Salvaged the
motor just the other day to go in my copper recycle barrel. (The plan
is to make aluminum bronze in the foundry.)
They do not make vacuums as strong as they used to. When I was a kid my
Uncle Paul (mostly a fine wood worker in his shop) had a giant canister
vacuum that would suck up and dispose of pretty decent size wood blocks.
It would easily draw in sawdust at twice the distance of any modern
ShopVac style vacuum I have seen. Last year when I was in Ohio to visit
I should have asked if that beast was still around.
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