Came inside from doing stuff outside for a coffee break – and a cookie.
Month: January 2018
14” Bandsaw – Dust extraction 2
14” Bandsaw – Dust extraction
With the lower wheel cover done we can start thinking about dust extraction.
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Cut some scrap timber to generate sawdust then opened the cover – interesting.
Almost all the dust has collected in that left corner of the open cover. That makes sense as the wheel turns clockwise blowing everything into that corner. That’s good !, we can mount the dust port low down in the corner.
Holly after her bath
Holly – bath time
14” Bandsaw – Hinged wheel cover 2
I the last session we made the frame for the lower hinged wheel cover which will also serve as a dust extraction box.
Now we can measure and cut another MDF board which we be the actual front panel of the box. Just entered a note in OneNote to buy some more 3mm MDF.
14” Bandsaw – Hinged wheel cover
14” Bandsaw – Motor dust covers 2

From the last session we need to fit one more panel across the top.
14” Bandsaw – Motor dust covers 1
This is the first stage of hopefully a reasonably effective dust extraction setup to which I can attach a workshop vacuum.
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I checked behind the wheel and we have room for a dust panel. We need to cut a pulley access slot, the shorter the better. The pulley is towards the right side so also checked that I can slide the panel in on the left side, then up and across to the right.
Facebook – Activity log
Something that has bugged me with the activity log is the ability to go back directly to a specific year AND month. The main reason for this is when I fall behind with updating my WordPress blog to match my Facebook posts it requires to much effort painfully paging down through the activity log to find specific posts. Same for when I go through my photo archives and come across pictures and would like to review the related Facebook posts where they were used – if that makes sense.
