I was cutting out some projects and my dust blower seemed to becoming less and less effective; I suspected that the bellows had failed, so I removed it and found that it was still good. Next I removed the plastic goose neck and blew in the end that connects to the bellows, and about 1/2 tbs. of fine dust came out. Problem solved, for now.
The bellows on my saw doesn't have a check valve in it, like an old fashioned bellows for a fireplace or a bicycle pump, so it's basically just sucking in and out to create the air stream to remove the sawdust. The problem with this tactic is that it fills the line with debris requiring us to remove the goose neck from time to time for cleaning.
I'm tired of servicing such a poor design, and I have an idea to make a separate blower that can be moved for use to any tool. The blower will be easy to make out of readily available parts, be adjustable, be easy on the electric bill, and we won't have to keep playing with it to keep it functioning.
I'll share it with you in an upcoming post, when I have one made, and up and running.
It's been a few days since my last post. Now that the weather is nice, I have been outside and basically torn my shop completely apart for cleaning and reorganizing things, adding new shelving, and getting ready to bring my radial arm saw home. I hope I'll be done shortly so that I can back to making things.
The bellows on my saw doesn't have a check valve in it, like an old fashioned bellows for a fireplace or a bicycle pump, so it's basically just sucking in and out to create the air stream to remove the sawdust. The problem with this tactic is that it fills the line with debris requiring us to remove the goose neck from time to time for cleaning.
I'm tired of servicing such a poor design, and I have an idea to make a separate blower that can be moved for use to any tool. The blower will be easy to make out of readily available parts, be adjustable, be easy on the electric bill, and we won't have to keep playing with it to keep it functioning.
I'll share it with you in an upcoming post, when I have one made, and up and running.
It's been a few days since my last post. Now that the weather is nice, I have been outside and basically torn my shop completely apart for cleaning and reorganizing things, adding new shelving, and getting ready to bring my radial arm saw home. I hope I'll be done shortly so that I can back to making things.
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