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Safety Week
Safety Week for the Woodworking Blogosphere begins again (with a slight delay), so from Monday, for 5 days, there will be a post a day specifically focusing on different aspects of safety. Not only...
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Holistic Safety
Holostic, from ὅλος (holos), the Greek concept that the properties of a system cannot simply be determined or explained simply by looking at the individual component parts. Aristotle summarised it...
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Safety Practicability in the Workshop
Safety is an ideal that we all attempt to achieve, by one method or another. Some people claim their safety is purely achieved through a state-of-mind – they concentrate on every thing they do so that...
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Scary Sharp is a myth
I’m sure you’ve heard it before, and particularly associated with the method of sharpening chisels with increasing sandpaper grades: “So sharp, it is scary” But can something be too sharp (which is...
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Ad Campaign
Came across this ad campaign recently – thought it was rather cool in how it highlighted the noise of power tools Filed under: Manufactures and Suppliers, Safety Tagged: Noise, Power Tools
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10 Safety Tips
1. Keep your work area clean. You don’t have to have a pristine workshop (few of us want that, and even fewer can achieve it!), but if your work area is clean then a lot of hazards will be removed, it...
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Cyclonic Festool
With Safety Week drawing to a close, thought a couple of practical articles would be good to offset all the theory during the rest of the week! With the arrival of the Festool Cleantex Dust Collection...
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In the Air Filter or the Lungs…Decisions, Decisions.
Air filtration is often the very last machine considered for purchase in the workshop. After all there are so many tools to buy, each adding additional functionality, but air filtering? What does that...
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Oneida 1, Stu’s Shed 0
Gave a real crack at sorting out the Systainer version of the Dust Deputy, making up a strong box to go inside the Systainer, all Dominoed together (used the Domino with the Cleantex for the first...
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Zero Radius
Been having a discussion on sharpening in the Scary Sharp post recently, wanted to add more detail, and thought others might also be interested in the discussion. So far, the discussion has been:...
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Filter Changing
A couple of questions were raised about the MC760 from Microclene about how to tell when a filter needs to be changed, and how easy is it to do so (especially when there are 3 types of filters for...
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Vacuum Storage
The other question I had recently was about the CT36 – the Cleantex Vacuum from Festool (Ideal Tools) Storage of the components (particularly for transportation) for the CT36 is very easy – there is a...
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The Safe Oil
A note on safety – Tung Oil is an exothermic oil – like linseed oil, it generates heat as it dries. If you don’t treat the rags with respect, they will bite you (or more correctly, burn you, in the...
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Power Factor
You hear a lot about startup loads, peak loads, tools being loaded up even to the point they trip circuit breakers etc, so I was interested when I came across this inline meter, and being cheap thought...
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Deconstructing the Dust Kit
When I saw the kit for the new Carbatec dust collection system (and the clear tube setup), it wasn’t going to be long before I was fitting it to the shed. And the timing is rather appropriate – the...
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Around the Corner
Another small window, another small amount of progress on the re-configuration of the dust collection. Bracket At the end of the tablesaw, I finished with a coupling, so the tablesaw can be detached at...
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Tubes, Tubes and More Tubes
This is still a continuation of the implementation of the dust system – yeah, not the most interesting thing to continue with (although I am enjoying the progress), but it is what I am currently...
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Woodshop Dust Control
As I have been diving further into setting up the collection system in the workshop, I thought I should have a look at the only book I know of that deals specifically with the issue: Woodshop Dust...
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Green Steam
As I have mentioned, the dust extractor is now in the other shed, and because of the no-volt release switch, I can’t easily switch it on and off from the main shed just by switching the power on and...
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Gettin’ Dusty ’round ‘ere
Taking the breadboard test, I then redrew the circuit, taking into account that a couple of new switches I’ve bought have lights, and now are separate push-button momentary switches (rather nice ones...
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