The main thing that I always take away from watching Matthias' videos is that I will never be able to do what this guy does, EVER! However, I always learn something that I can use in my own shop.....Thanks Matthias, your the best woodworker I know.....Steve
About three month ago, I started leaving comments, and decided to review your videos. My comment today, is you never cease to amazingly spark my interest. Be healthy, do good work, and stay focused.
I've been watching some of your older videos again, Matthias. I hope your arms are doing better and that the move is going smoothly. You inspired me to get into woodworking and to go back to school to be an engineer. I hope whatever you end up doing, it makes you happy, and that you can continue to post great stuff like this in the future.
Just a quick tip regarding making a spiral for a fan like this. Start out the way Matthias did, measure the big diameter and the small diameter, find the difference (D - d) and use a dowel with that diameter, a string and a pencil. Start at the big diameter, and as you draw, make sure the string goes around the dowel (fasten the string any way you like, but make sure it's tight). Since the string gets shorter, it will pull the pencil closer to the centre the further you draw, and since the diameter of the dowel is (D - d), then the result will be perfect.
+Keegan Chaput No problem. EDIT: Another thing I should add is that if your string is too long, then don't worry. Just wind it around the dowel until it's the right length. Just make sure the string is "straight", as in, creating a line that, if extended, would cross both the centre and the point where you start to draw. If the string creates a line that's tangential to the dowel, the spiral won't be perfect.
+stygn You're giving away too much info! You told people of the basic idea - that should be enough. It should be down to them to get it working perfect. Otherwise we're all just following orders, and no-one is thinking for themselves (which is dangerous in a shop!). :)
+stygn Not having infinite number of differently sized dowels on hand, I'll use a dowel on hand, say the 3/4" one in my scrap box, and use that to drive my (D-d) number, either fixing D or d as easiest to live with.
This project gave me an idea about making a dust sucking table for my workshop. I'm not really a woodworker, but I find your videos very entertaining and smart. Please, keep them coming.
I found you thanks to Izzy. I'm oh so very glad I did. Just got a new disk/belt sander and finally need a dust collector in the outdoor workshop. I'll be visiting your videos quite often lol. Thank you so much!
Really like this video, I've got a few motors which would be perfect for the job and we're a few dust collectors shy. I also enjoy watching Matthias hack things out quickly like this, much woodwork tends to be detail oriented. The fun is swinging an axe, swinging a bandsaw, swinging a hammer... producing something which will be used and abused and appreciated.
Matthias, I have taken to watching Aeg, the Canadian Gentleman. You are both truly extraordinary Gentlemen. It's valid to put you both forward as "justification" for TH-cam. This comment isnt made in jest, you are both outstanding exemplars of homegrown wisdom and technical prowess. Yes I am a fan!
Craftsman no longer sells it, but the had an auto switch that is perfect for automatically turning on and off your vacuum or small dust collector. A nice convenience and worth 20 if you can find one.
Speedhammering always makes me smile... Nice work on the dust collector. Oh and though I'm a SW guy, I'm lazy in the same way. And I hate it when management wants me to document every little app and script I make.
You said you were to lazy? You my amazing friend have no idea what lazy is, that is the only place I could show you up. Thanks, keep doing what you're doing.
To grab that last bit of dust, you may want to try and seal up any areas on the case away from that area and may open a leak by where you want that air to flow. similar to your dust collection box concept. Maybe start by taping the case and seeing if you get better performance as a quick check to see if it helps. Any leaks in areas that don't need air flow steal from areas you want it. Great solution as I find I don't enjoy moving my shop vacuum from one piece of equipment to the next. I also like the idea someone else had of using the belt sander motor to drive the fan. If you have enough reserve power in the belt sander motor, you could use it to do both functions and then you don't have to remember to turn on the fan when you use the sander. A pulley system would also allow you to play with the speed.
Mattias, With this video you have let me see that is is really easy to make a blower. I tried it before, with a 3/4hp motor but never came past the blades and just gave up. You really inspired me to make a blower just for fun. That compass thing you did at 1:37 was really handy. I'll be using it with the next try. Thanks Mattias for the great idea!
+MrPanohead "I constructed the automatic doors on this subway train out of some bamboo and a small piece of leather that floated ashore yesterday. It works okay."
+Tor Arne Benjaminsen "I have just realised I fitted the head of my bionic bamboo spouse without a voice box, I actually prefer it this way so there is no need to make adjustments..."
+Mark Job Those filters have very low air resistance, so that wouldn't change anything. Also, less air flow makes it easier for the fan to turn faster.
+Matthias Wandel As a Mechanical Engineer I appreciate your troubleshooting skills and more importantly, the way your mind works. Your approach to try different things in order to make the final product work is impressive. So, a bigger motor is the best idea. Thank you Matthias for the great videos.
Спасибо. Ты очень хороший столяр. Очень жаль, что ты не говоришь по-русски. Thank you. You're a very good carpenter. It is a pity that you do not speak in Russian)
+Mark Gsttice Did you notice that he holds the hammer half way down the handle. Had an old journeyman carpenter cut off the back half of my hammer handle when I did that as an apprentice.
+Mark Gstohl Did you notice that he holds the hammer half way down the handle. Had an old journeyman carpenter cut off the back half of my hammer handle when I did that as an apprentice.
Holding the hammer closer to the head gives you better control over it. Kinda like how if you rest your wrist on something and cutting closer to the handle, you get better (well, finer) control of a knife.
I use something similar for my miter saw. The fan motor is the same type, but mine has 60 Watts. It was taken from my girlfriend`s old washing-/drying-combo-machine. I made a small box out of particle board with the radial fan on top. The fan sucks air from the saw through a short hose into the box. At the moment, there is no cyclone or filter installed an it works surprisingly well. The fan seems to have simply not enough power to blow the dust out again. But of course it also doesn`t have enough power to suck in all of the dust that the miter saw produces. Nevertheless, I am satisfied because it reduces the amount of dust flying around significantly. Maybe I'll try to add some sort of filter one day.
If you may, consider using an old vacuum cleaner motor and blower housing. Your project could be built with greater power and may work to your satisfaction. A yard sale or flea market may have many old vacuum cleaners for a price that would make the project a price effective way to make a real good dust collector for your shop use. A good vacuum impeller and motor assembly would make for a better use of the time and effort spent, but the motor and impeller have to run good at the point of sale for it to be cost and time effective to build and use.
Dude, great job alway around very impressed with your wood working skills and knowledge. Drop the extra filter and may get better results, plus use as much plastic as possible. Plastic It's lighter, less drag, keep the motor from harding as hard and your efforts in doing so is helping in recycling and saving our planet.
I just built one of those blowers, using a condensate air conditioner pump motor, and it works pretty good! Now I will have to make an actual filter box :/
@MatthiasWandel watching your Videos most of the time make me jealous !! of you, coz the way you make things. I love it. I have also learnt many things by watching them. Thanks for sharing your works. :)
Nice, love your vids. It would be great to have a dedicated collector on all the machines in my shop. The central vac system I use is ok but it was a pain installing it. Now will be installing it again in the new shop I'm building.
Now that you've build a couple of these, do you have a feel for how large you'd be willing to go with a wooden impeller? The one's you've made are great, and I"m guessing a 20" 7.5 HP unit would be sketchy at best. So, where do you figure the magic line is?
I'm not sure how practical this is, but but it would've been really cool if the dust collector was part of the stand for the sander, so it would underneath it like one big unit.
Know what I would love to see him build. An Arcade Cabinet or a Virtual Pinball Cabinet. Yeah I know there are several videos on youtube about the Arcade Cabinet, but nothing really on a pinball. And since Maathias does have a way of engineering things a certain way, would love to see his take.
+Matthias Wandel Ok, I'll go back and look at that. Thanks! But I'd still like it, if you could explain the flow of air through the system. And with “less energy”, we mean “less waste”, because a higher volume of pressure is created from the same input of energy, right? I love it when practical applications are used to explain the basic physics I was meant to learn in school :-)
Hy Matthias, I worked in a company which made exactly this kind of motors and please keep an eye on the coil temperature of the motor... i saw some really ugly burned ones especially in summer when the ambient temperatures are higer. Or maybe this motor have already a thermoswitch inside the coil :) Br, Felix
+KOrbiid well over time, if that thing saves him even a minute every day, that adds up One minute per day is the equivalent of 6 hours per year. Plus the commodity by it self is worth a lot.
+KOrbiid My thoughts EXACTLY!!! Then builds the duct "collector" and to show how well it works, blows dust all over the shop! This is why i love these videos. :)
At 8:55 you already had that piece screwed where you needed it, why did you unscrew it and glue it instead? Does glue offer any advantages over screws? I'm relatively new to all this sorry for the possibly noob question.
+James Poulton Provides extra rigidity. Wood moves with changing humidity, temp, etc., and he wants that cleat to ride as closely against the housing and stay that way. The screws alone would have allowed for potential bowing of the wood. Also, the idea is suction here, so the glue helps seal any tiny cracks. As far as asking noob questions, that's how you 'level up!' :-) The saying is true: "the only dumb questions are the ones unasked."
+durlydurl Thanks for the reply! I'd figured it was something to do with creating a better seal. I hadn't considering anything strength related though, that makes a lot of sense.
+James Poulton Glad to help! Some of Matthias's earlier vids talk about when glue is a good idea and when it doesn't really help. If you go to his channel page, search for "glue." Pace yourself though. Eventually you'll have watched ALL of his vids and you'll have to wait for new ones! :-)
I'm thinking you might be able to prevent the dust buildup in the sander if you made a little concave ramp that contours more closely to the belt at the front, maybe with some lacquer to make it more smooth. I'm assuming most of the air enters that chamber through the belt hole, so that would maintain the air speed and get rid of that little pocket of turbulence in there.
If you get a slight whistle as it rotates, round over the corner where the spiral meets the outlet. If you want to get really clever, make it larger diameter at the top, and smaller at the bottom. Losing the sharp edge stops it acting like a siren.
Can you make a video on drill bits? I'm a bit confused about when to use a split point vs a Brad point vs a spade bit vs screw point vs forstner bit, etc.
That's a stupid question, almost as stupid as commenting on a year old post. You use what bit will do the best job for your requirement. If you know the names of the different but types, you should know the differences, and what that changes. That's like asking how to use the climate control in your car.
As a college student who enjoys building but has a very limited amount of tools what are ways you would suggest on finding the cheapest yet effective motors for building and producing some the equipment around your shop, between you and Izzy Swan's channel I am convinced I could manufacture some equipment that would be effective, have a small footprint, and most importantly not break my pockets. P.S. Im studying Mechanical Engineering, another reason for my interest in tool building! Thanks!
Do you ever have to buy material for your projects? I always enjoy your videos to see what on earth you will come up with. Amazing what you can do. Ty for teaching youtube Do you ever use pin nailer for holding while glue dries ?
I had an issue like this where the dust would compact right where the belt would enter the dust box. I took an old paint brush and screwed it into the box so it was just barely touching the belt and it was enough to knock the dust airborne inside the box to be sucked up.
Alright, I see more of that plywood that looks just like the juice concentrate crates I often use for my own projects. Is that where your plywood came from? Also, great build! I love seeing your thought process during the design process.
The main thing that I always take away from watching Matthias' videos is that I will never be able to do what this guy does, EVER! However, I always learn something that I can use in my own shop.....Thanks Matthias, your the best woodworker I know.....Steve
I love that you reflect on what you could have done better and not just what went well. Cool project!
About three month ago, I started leaving comments, and decided to review your videos. My comment today, is you never cease to amazingly spark my interest. Be healthy, do good work, and stay focused.
I cannot relate to any of the problems you have, I just find it so satisfying when you create all of these amazing things.
I've been watching some of your older videos again, Matthias. I hope your arms are doing better and that the move is going smoothly. You inspired me to get into woodworking and to go back to school to be an engineer. I hope whatever you end up doing, it makes you happy, and that you can continue to post great stuff like this in the future.
I'm blown away that little motor worked! Great build!
+Peter Brown (◞థ౪థ)ᴖ
+Peter Brown I’m a fan of this design.
+Peter Brown a Matthias build that sucks, first time for everything! ;-)
+sydnius ba dum tsss
+Gareth Crispin (MrHolozip) Get out
Just a quick tip regarding making a spiral for a fan like this. Start out the way Matthias did, measure the big diameter and the small diameter, find the difference (D - d) and use a dowel with that diameter, a string and a pencil. Start at the big diameter, and as you draw, make sure the string goes around the dowel (fasten the string any way you like, but make sure it's tight). Since the string gets shorter, it will pull the pencil closer to the centre the further you draw, and since the diameter of the dowel is (D - d), then the result will be perfect.
That's a good tip! thanks.
+Keegan Chaput No problem. EDIT: Another thing I should add is that if your string is too long, then don't worry. Just wind it around the dowel until it's the right length. Just make sure the string is "straight", as in, creating a line that, if extended, would cross both the centre and the point where you start to draw. If the string creates a line that's tangential to the dowel, the spiral won't be perfect.
+stygn You're giving away too much info! You told people of the basic idea - that should be enough. It should be down to them to get it working perfect. Otherwise we're all just following orders, and no-one is thinking for themselves (which is dangerous in a shop!). :)
If you don't bend to my will, you shall perish.
+stygn Not having infinite number of differently sized dowels on hand, I'll use a dowel on hand, say the 3/4" one in my scrap box, and use that to drive my (D-d) number, either fixing D or d as easiest to live with.
I always enjoy when Matthias says how terrible a piece of wood is and where he got it and then shows how he manages to make use of it.
Он просто относится к дереву как к материалу. Во всех коробках, поддонах, Matthias, усматривает МАТЕРИАЛ
Great use of CAD (Cardboard Aided Design)
This project gave me an idea about making a dust sucking table for my workshop. I'm not really a woodworker, but I find your videos very entertaining and smart. Please, keep them coming.
I found you thanks to Izzy. I'm oh so very glad I did. Just got a new disk/belt sander and finally need a dust collector in the outdoor workshop. I'll be visiting your videos quite often lol. Thank you so much!
I do not understand what you are doing but I enjoy watching.
Really like this video, I've got a few motors which would be perfect for the job and we're a few dust collectors shy. I also enjoy watching Matthias hack things out quickly like this, much woodwork tends to be detail oriented. The fun is swinging an axe, swinging a bandsaw, swinging a hammer... producing something which will be used and abused and appreciated.
Matthias, I have taken to watching Aeg, the Canadian Gentleman. You are both truly extraordinary Gentlemen. It's valid to put you both forward as "justification" for TH-cam. This comment isnt made in jest, you are both outstanding exemplars of homegrown wisdom and technical prowess. Yes I am a fan!
Craftsman no longer sells it, but the had an auto switch that is perfect for automatically turning on and off your vacuum or small dust collector. A nice convenience and worth 20 if you can find one.
Speedhammering always makes me smile... Nice work on the dust collector.
Oh and though I'm a SW guy, I'm lazy in the same way. And I hate it when management wants me to document every little app and script I make.
You said you were to lazy? You my amazing friend have no idea what lazy is, that is the only place I could show you up. Thanks, keep doing what you're doing.
To grab that last bit of dust, you may want to try and seal up any areas on the case away from that area and may open a leak by where you want that air to flow. similar to your dust collection box concept. Maybe start by taping the case and seeing if you get better performance as a quick check to see if it helps. Any leaks in areas that don't need air flow steal from areas you want it.
Great solution as I find I don't enjoy moving my shop vacuum from one piece of equipment to the next. I also like the idea someone else had of using the belt sander motor to drive the fan. If you have enough reserve power in the belt sander motor, you could use it to do both functions and then you don't have to remember to turn on the fan when you use the sander. A pulley system would also allow you to play with the speed.
Mattias, With this video you have let me see that is is really easy to make a blower. I tried it before, with a 3/4hp motor but never came past the blades and just gave up. You really inspired me to make a blower just for fun. That compass thing you did at 1:37 was really handy. I'll be using it with the next try. Thanks Mattias for the great idea!
One thing for sure, you are going to see something new when you watch one of Matthias' videos. Excellent work.
If you were stranded on a deserted island you would probably be back to roughly the same standard of living within ten years.
+MrPanohead "I constructed the automatic doors on this subway train out of some bamboo and a small piece of leather that floated ashore yesterday. It works okay."
+Tor Arne Benjaminsen "I have just realised I fitted the head of my bionic bamboo spouse without a voice box, I actually prefer it this way so there is no need to make adjustments..."
+Tor Arne Benjaminsen hahaha best comment
+MrPanohead That's a bit of a stretch. Probably 1/2 that.
+Tor Arne Benjaminsen LOL!
So beautiful! I really love this one! =D I also like that you used "scrap" wood pieces also instead of all new materials, really cool! =D
4:10 matthias you're a magician! That was so awesome how you made those curves!
Amazing that little motor can do that!
+Glass Impressions Just barely!
+Matthias Wandel Did you try removing the second filter for better air flow?
+Mark Job Those filters have very low air resistance, so that wouldn't change anything. Also, less air flow makes it easier for the fan to turn faster.
+Matthias Wandel As a Mechanical Engineer I appreciate your troubleshooting skills and more importantly, the way your mind works. Your approach to try different things in order to make the final product work is impressive.
So, a bigger motor is the best idea. Thank you Matthias for the great videos.
valeu cara parabens voce e muito profissional e criativo.
every time you post a video I get a little smarter. thanks for that.
+tim sway You mean.. you get Smarter Every Day ?
great channel
Thats the most lathe work ive seen you do ever!
Excellent ideas Mathias. Now I want to add a thein baffle with some sort of trap door in the base so I can empty the dust effortlessly.
Спасибо. Ты очень хороший столяр. Очень жаль, что ты не говоришь по-русски. Thank you. You're a very good carpenter. It is a pity that you do not speak in Russian)
Awesome video! I liked the way you designed that spiral!
Your hammering skills are outstanding!
+Mark Gsttice
Did you notice that he holds the hammer half way down the handle. Had an old journeyman carpenter cut off the back half of my hammer handle when I did that as an apprentice.
+Mark Gstohl
Did you notice that he holds the hammer half way down the handle. Had an
old journeyman carpenter cut off the back half of my hammer handle when
I did that as an apprentice.
+Brian Binns Haha that's a harsh lesson! ☺
Holding the hammer closer to the head gives you better control over it. Kinda like how if you rest your wrist on something and cutting closer to the handle, you get better (well, finer) control of a knife.
Very cool and cute dust collector. Liked the splines in between the housing parts. Very handy!
Jesus. Your videos make me feel more inadequate than watching a Lexington Steele scene.
+stfuyoudeadwrong Same here. If he ever decides to go bad and join the forces of evil, we're all doomed.
+Mark Lindsay Just be kind to him, and not encourage him to join the dark side.
+Mark Lindsay 😂
Love watching your videos. It's amazing what you can do with little old motors and make them useful again. Thanks for the inspirations.
That blade clamping strategy is just nuts!
I use something similar for my miter saw. The fan motor is the same type, but mine has 60 Watts. It was taken from my girlfriend`s old washing-/drying-combo-machine. I made a small box out of particle board with the radial fan on top. The fan sucks air from the saw through a short hose into the box. At the moment, there is no cyclone or filter installed an it works surprisingly well. The fan seems to have simply not enough power to blow the dust out again. But of course it also doesn`t have enough power to suck in all of the dust that the miter saw produces. Nevertheless, I am satisfied because it reduces the amount of dust flying around significantly. Maybe I'll try to add some sort of filter one day.
This man is a genius. Thanks for the earbleed on the video about the air raid siren that you made!
awesome...makes me wonder if you could have built the blower on a pulley on the sander
+Cody Taber with integrated cyclone
I've never seen anyone hammer in a nail so quickly; and, with such accuracy: remarkable!
If you may, consider using an old vacuum cleaner motor and blower housing. Your project could be built with greater power and may work to your satisfaction. A yard sale or flea market may have many old vacuum cleaners for a price that would make the project a price effective way to make a real good dust collector for your shop use. A good vacuum impeller and motor assembly would make for a better use of the time and effort spent, but the motor and impeller have to run good at the point of sale for it to be cost and time effective to build and use.
Man I love your videos. You make the complicated easy to understand. Keep up the good work!
You're very clever. Always a pleasure to watch your videos. Ingenious work!
Your geometry skills always impress me.
It's great to watch you work, Matthias.
I bet this guy is global elite.
He knows everything about Dust Too
+snowclones You bloody did it, you won the internet.
+SlavjanA He will AWP your ass off.
+Ninjadave0o Can someone pls explain this to me? D:
+TheDrB0B It is a Counter Strike joke. Global Elite is the highest rank. AWP is a 1 shot kill in the game. Dust 2 is one of the maps in the game. :D
That is impressive the way you made the blower itself!
What a great idea for fitting underneath a workbench, even one that rolls around.
Dude, great job alway around very impressed with your wood working skills and knowledge. Drop the extra filter and may get better results, plus use as much plastic as possible. Plastic It's lighter, less drag, keep the motor from harding as hard and your efforts in doing so is helping in recycling and saving our planet.
love watching you work. You are a clever one, kid. Thanks for making these videos. i learned a lot from them.
That's some mighty fine constructive geometry!
I just built one of those blowers, using a condensate air conditioner pump motor, and it works pretty good! Now I will have to make an actual filter box :/
@MatthiasWandel watching your Videos most of the time make me jealous !! of you, coz the way you make things. I love it. I have also learnt many things by watching them. Thanks for sharing your works. :)
amazing how you can build so much from so little material/tools. I bet this is also quieter than a large dust collector.
Nice, love your vids. It would be great to have a dedicated collector on all the machines in my shop. The central vac system I use is ok but it was a pain installing it. Now will be installing it again in the new shop I'm building.
Great build Matthias, I always have enjoyed your dust collection projects. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Now that you've build a couple of these, do you have a feel for how large you'd be willing to go with a wooden impeller? The one's you've made are great, and I"m guessing a 20" 7.5 HP unit would be sketchy at best. So, where do you figure the magic line is?
+Matt Heere I don't know. Make them bigger until one of them blows up.
You are MacGyver - love your work and videos. Thank you for sharing.
I'm not sure how practical this is, but but it would've been really cool if the dust collector was part of the stand for the sander, so it would underneath it like one big unit.
I admire your patience!
That was such a cute mini lathe to flatten the flange.
Far and away my favorite youtuber!
Never fail to impress, Matthias.
Glue/staple a strip of material felt along the airbox joints. its super soft and fills gaps well.
I love your building videos! To me, they're very well structured
Agreed! ☺
+Josh Scrivener if you'll pardon the pun...
+Aidan Brown Hee hee! :p
awesome videos! been watching your stuff for a few months now. just saw your video made the front page of Reddit! congratulations!
Too lazy to hook up a hose, so design and build a dedicated dust collector. I love it!
You are a magician! Always fun and interesting to see your video's. Thank you!
Know what I would love to see him build. An Arcade Cabinet or a Virtual Pinball Cabinet. Yeah I know there are several videos on youtube about the Arcade Cabinet, but nothing really on a pinball. And since Maathias does have a way of engineering things a certain way, would love to see his take.
Всегда с удовольствием смотрю ! Спасибо.
Could you do a video on how you connect the motor to a power supply, such as your home outlet or battery? That would be awesome. thanks.
Could you do a video on the different types of propellers? Why is this type better than a fan-type?
+rasmis Takes less energy. I discovered that with my first dust collector build.
+Matthias Wandel Ok, I'll go back and look at that. Thanks! But I'd still like it, if you could explain the flow of air through the system.
And with “less energy”, we mean “less waste”, because a higher volume of pressure is created from the same input of energy, right? I love it when practical applications are used to explain the basic physics I was meant to learn in school :-)
the high speed nailing made me way happier than it should have
How quaint. Nails to hold the box together. Ahaahaaha. Great video as always. Always look forward to them.
you never cease to amaze,i'll have a go now cheers malc
Thought at beginning of video: "This guy lost his mind!"
Thought at end of video: "So cool I'm going to build one right now!"
+Jeremy Schmidt Ha!
Try to use a slightly bigger motor than I did.
My thought exactly after saw those aquarium pump
yes ,thank you for great build Matthias
Hy Matthias,
I worked in a company which made exactly this kind of motors and please keep an eye on the coil temperature of the motor... i saw some really ugly burned ones especially in summer when the ambient temperatures are higer.
Or maybe this motor have already a thermoswitch inside the coil :)
Br, Felix
I am to lazy to always plug in the big dust collector just take a whole day to build a mini dust collector, because thats what lazy people do :P
+KOrbiid well over time, if that thing saves him even a minute every day, that adds up
One minute per day is the equivalent of 6 hours per year.
Plus the commodity by it self is worth a lot.
+Ruben Fernandes More importantly, this will ensure it's always on when I use the sander (I wired it into the sander's power switch)
+Matthias Wandel Bam! Great idea.
+KOrbiid Necessity may be the mother of invention; but it is a little known fact that laziness was the father!!
+KOrbiid My thoughts EXACTLY!!! Then builds the duct "collector" and to show how well it works, blows dust all over the shop! This is why i love these videos. :)
that was very cool! great use of what you had on hand.
At 8:55 you already had that piece screwed where you needed it, why did you unscrew it and glue it instead?
Does glue offer any advantages over screws?
I'm relatively new to all this sorry for the possibly noob question.
+James Poulton Provides extra rigidity. Wood moves with changing humidity, temp, etc., and he wants that cleat to ride as closely against the housing and stay that way. The screws alone would have allowed for potential bowing of the wood. Also, the idea is suction here, so the glue helps seal any tiny cracks. As far as asking noob questions, that's how you 'level up!' :-) The saying is true: "the only dumb questions are the ones unasked."
+durlydurl Thanks for the reply!
I'd figured it was something to do with creating a better seal. I hadn't considering anything strength related though, that makes a lot of sense.
+James Poulton Glad to help! Some of Matthias's earlier vids talk about when glue is a good idea and when it doesn't really help. If you go to his channel page, search for "glue." Pace yourself though. Eventually you'll have watched ALL of his vids and you'll have to wait for new ones! :-)
Another amazing project. Love your videos.
You are very smart!!!!! I love watching your videos
The splines parallel to the wood joint for the housing was smart, basically ensures that the joint is airtight
I'm thinking you might be able to prevent the dust buildup in the sander if you made a little concave ramp that contours more closely to the belt at the front, maybe with some lacquer to make it more smooth. I'm assuming most of the air enters that chamber through the belt hole, so that would maintain the air speed and get rid of that little pocket of turbulence in there.
I like the way the whole thing is made from scrap lumber.
The work we handy types put into being lazy......
+kristofer skrade - Thank you, i didn't know this quote.
Now i feel much better for being lazy. :)
+Pat F I'm a database administrator - being lazy is a job requirement. Automate all the things!
Great video today Matthias.
If you get a slight whistle as it rotates, round over the corner where the spiral meets the outlet. If you want to get really clever, make it larger diameter at the top, and smaller at the bottom. Losing the sharp edge stops it acting like a siren.
at 8:00 - LOOK!! NAILS!! How retro. ;-)
im always happy to see people using a hammer to put in nails instead of an air bradder, its a dying art i swear
Can you make a video on drill bits? I'm a bit confused about when to use a split point vs a Brad point vs a spade bit vs screw point vs forstner bit, etc.
That's a stupid question, almost as stupid as commenting on a year old post.
You use what bit will do the best job for your requirement.
If you know the names of the different but types, you should know the differences, and what that changes.
That's like asking how to use the climate control in your car.
As a college student who enjoys building but has a very limited amount of tools what are ways you would suggest on finding the cheapest yet effective motors for building and producing some the equipment around your shop, between you and Izzy Swan's channel I am convinced I could manufacture some equipment that would be effective, have a small footprint, and most importantly not break my pockets. P.S. Im studying Mechanical Engineering, another reason for my interest in tool building! Thanks!
Great video!!!
Do you ever have to buy material for your projects? I always enjoy your videos to see what on earth you will come up with. Amazing what you can do. Ty for teaching youtube Do you ever use pin nailer for holding while glue dries ?
Very cool. Not perfect but I really love watching your process.
How satisfying is it to watch high speed hammering? 😄
This guy got way to much free time, but work really well! nice video :)
I had an issue like this where the dust would compact right where the belt would enter the dust box. I took an old paint brush and screwed it into the box so it was just barely touching the belt and it was enough to knock the dust airborne inside the box to be sucked up.
Alright, I see more of that plywood that looks just like the juice concentrate crates I often use for my own projects. Is that where your plywood came from?
Also, great build! I love seeing your thought process during the design process.
Wouw!
Excellent video , as always.
Thanks.
7:11 the dust collector Works flawlessly as the opposite thing.