Dust Collection For The Small Shop

Presented by: Bill James
Saturday, November 9, 2024

Meeting Info:

There is a great deal of information available on “dust collection” for wood shops, some of it conflicting, and it can be a daunting task to figure out what makes sense when putting together a “fixed duct” dust collection system for a small shop. Designing such a system gets even more complicated when taking into account the differences between collecting wood dust/chips/shavings from machines that typically use 4″

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Detail Carving Tools Show & Tell and Dowel and Wooden Screw Making

Presented by: Bill James, Elmer Nahum, and Ken Bayer
Saturday, April 13, 2024

The April meeting will be a Show & Tell of the completed (handle attached and sharpened) detail carving tools that we started in the March meeting. See the March meeting writeup for details on the video links associated with the program. Show us your finished tool, with a handle,

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Incorporating LED Lighting Into Your Machines (Retrofit or Make an Integral New Fixture)

Presented by: Bill James
Friday, January 12, 2024

LED lighting started to become commercially popular/viable about 15 years ago and has seen significant improvements over that time, such that there are now many choices available with respect to lamp (I’m going to call them bulbs) type, size, voltage, lumen output efficiency, color temperature, etc.  This has driven the availability of smaller bulb sizes and increased lumen output,

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