So yesterday I am walking thru the shop, glance over at my DC and think "Hummmm.... something dont look just right?!?" The top bag is not hanging properly.
A quick pat on the side of the bag revealed that it was FULL... and I mean REALLY full. Like full to the point where there was a foot of sawdust IN the top bag !
DOHHHHHHHH !!! What a mess !
Lesson learned... If you are doing a bunch of planner work, check the freakin bag !!
Mulch, I doin't think that was dumb you were busy, so just how bad WAS the mess. I find there is no east way to be neat if it gets that bad.
You want dumb I cleaned of the Lathe one day with the air hose and 20 min later could see the shop.
I share my shop with my furnace, so I'm kinda paranoid about dust particles in the air. When I'm doing something that might produce a lot of dust, I run the air cleaner and the sawdust collector. I don't use compressed air in there for anything but a nail gun.
Ha only did it once and was dusting for a few days later. As a rule I do run a clean shop and keep my tools in good working order, have a special place for every tool and put them away before leaving.
Ha only did it once and was dusting for a few days later. As a rule I do run a clean shop and keep my tools in good working order, have a special place for every tool and put them away before leaving.
You got really lucky, probably because it was planer shavings. This winter the bag on the DC hooked up to my drum sander was getting real full and I was waiting for a nice day to dump it. I go out there figuring I could sand one more board, turn the DC on and POOF!!!! the top bag blew off!!!
Talk about a mess!!!
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I was planing away on a bunch of walnut the other day, brand new bag completely empty when I started. Listening to a John Ringo novel on my MP3 player. Happened to look over at my DC bag and I was about 20 minutes away from the OP's experience......
Those bags fill up faster than a feller might think....
I make a lot of waste (at times a 55 gal bag an hour) and with the cyclone the only way I know I have gone way past the point of overfull is that the machines start kicking the waste out instead of picking it up
It is invariably the I can sneak one more piece though that does it. It won't and I end up wasting 20 minutes cleaning up the mess in the filter.
One day I am going to finish what I started and put a bin sensor on the cyclone so it will tell me to stop stupid
Joe, I have a clear hose that is my connector from the cyclone to the drum, I can see when it starts backing up, and I have a plexiglass view port that I put in on the drum lid. I go over and take a look through the view port before I start and take a look over at the drop hose 4 or 5 times during an operation cycle...especially planing. I only have a 35gal drum but I've been known to fill it up 3 or 4 times an hour if I'm doing a lot of wood prep and I have a helper. When its just me I don't move nearly that fast.
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Ok... THAT was dumb !
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