Vote to Enhance Dust Collection

Sponsor

Dean Anderson

History

• Mailing List Announcement: xx/xx/2015
• Officially Proposed: xx/xx/2015
• To be Voted on: xx/xx/2015

Background

Dust collection in the shop can be improved to reduce down time, increase effectiveness and ease of use, and make it quieter.

I suggest we do the following: 1) Replace the two filters in the Clearvue cyclone filter stack. $165 each from Wynn. 2) Enclose the collector rack with an acoustic barrier. Add a muffler to the exhaust. 3) Automate the blast gates. When a machine is turned on, the blast gate (valve in the duct) will open and stay open for a few seconds. 4) Replace the fine dust bin below the filter stack with a wood bin tall enough to support the stack without the orange bucket. The goals are to add dust holding capacity and support the stack more securely. 5) Add more equipment to the collection system. The new bandsaw, jointer, router table and sanders should be added. 6) Add more dust collection capacity. The Clearvue system can support 2 or sometimes 3 simultaneously running machines. When the shop is busy, we exceed this. 7) Add overhead dust collection to the sawstop. This was in the original dust collection vote, but we didn't get it due to a long lead time on the part. http://www.thesharkguard.com/sharkdc.php 8) Flow sensor to the duct and pressure sensors before and after the cyclone. 9) Bin level sensors for the cyclone bin and the filter stack bin. 10) Enclose the filter stack so we can apply a burst of pressure to clean the filter.

Language

We authorize the board to spend up to $xxxx to buy equipment and supplies to improve dust collection for the shopbot and woodshop. This spending authority will expire 180 days after it goes into effect.