Comments | greatbearmd: Workin' wood

greatbearmd

Workin' wood

Mar 29, 2009 23:11

The rainy weekend gave me a chance to work more towards reclaiming my basement workshop from neglect in preparation for doing some rather serious woodwork that's part of the renovations here at Casa De Mayhem. I had been making slow progress for a while now, but I was often hampered by cleaning up sawdust and subsequently sneezing my arse off and ( Read more... )

tools, loss, woodworking, projects, geekery

Comments 8

ciddyguy March 30 2009, 04:24:53 UTC

You and tools. I need to get a new cordless drill. I had a cheapie I bought at Big Lots several years ago and the charger unit's plug for the wallwart broke recently and I can't charge my batteries which were never the best at holding a charge and the damned thing was 18V too and didn't quite have the torque of a decent drill.

That's on my to get list this year.

furr_a_bruin March 30 2009, 06:23:07 UTC

There's a new one out that runs off a supercapacitor - 30 minutes run time... 90 seconds recharge time!

ciddyguy March 30 2009, 13:56:21 UTC

Wow, I bet it's $$$$ in cost though.

redmoonriver March 30 2009, 04:44:24 UTC

*HUGS* Yay for recovering the old you! :)

thetarnishedowl March 30 2009, 04:45:04 UTC

I hope you'll post photos of your woodworking projects.

budmassey March 30 2009, 11:40:44 UTC

Good for you for reclaiming who you are. I can relate to that experience.

restoman March 30 2009, 13:34:28 UTC

I need one of those dust collection systems, and a filtration system would be very helpful too. Of course, first I need some spare money to work with. I am very glad that my workshop is in its own freestanding building, but opening the door and windows just doesn't work well enough to clean the air, and is impracticle in winter.

greatbearmd March 30 2009, 16:32:07 UTC

My biggest problem is that the workshop is in the quarter of the basement that has absolutely no ventilation, windows or anything similar, it's pure dead space. I am going to add a vent fan of sorts to help move some air out of the area, but I am very limited as to what I can install because of how the house is designed. The workshop area is basically completely underground except for just above the sillplate. I can put a couple 4x10 dampered side vents and a pair of high velocity room vent fans (which are basically big, bathroom fan-style fans with double squirrel cage blowers in each box) similar to the one I added in the sunroom a few years back.

I am surprised how well the air filtration setup works. The one I have is about mid-sides in the lineup of units, there are smaller and larger ones available. This one seems to be more than enough for my use.