Recent content by Togalosh

Have you found the problem? If not: It sounds liked something is temporarily breaking contact .. may due to heat (& remakes when cooled, such as a safety switch in the motor if you have dull knives etc) or vibration (less likely as that break would fail outright soon enough.. but I have seen...

I purchased a second-hand E Beckum HC260 +5yrs ago from someone on here. Until this week I rated it highly as a hobbiest's machine... I now have a twisted/ warped "Thicknesser Bed". I made a small table top a few weeks ago without any need for hand planing prior to gluing up so I'm a bit...

I had a victoriana terrace with the cold wind whistling up through the floorboards, chilling my feet, which the central heating couldn't do anything about. If it were just me I'd have lifted the floorboards & installed ridgid insulation boards between the rafters & 300mm down the walls. However...

Good Evening..it's been a while. Hopefully it's within posting rules to ask for trade recommendations for some carpentry work required. Good friends of mine back in Birmingham are looking for a decent carpenter & I was wondering if anyone here can recommend someone or put themselves forward to...

I made my 1 & only Ledged & Braced gate from reading this book & I was very happy with how it went. https://lostartpress.com/products/doormaking-and-window-making It is old fashioned, no nonsense, time served experience. Maybe it's not the easiest read because it is straight from a bygone era...

Thanks John. That looks great. I was thinking about putting the blastgates up high too but hadn't got round to figuring out how to operate them- now I know. Ace. What efficiency is your motor & does it have a VFD ? If not so great (IE 1 or 2) it might be good idea to get a VFD, it should pay...

They use them on the tabling of waste disposal units in commercial kitchens to stop cutlery going in.

At the risk of sounding like a Bill Pentz fanatic, he had one & says they work well but only at a "trash can" size. "We could build a much bigger trashcan separator that would work, but for the 1000 CFM we need for good fine dust collection, we end up needing a 5'2" wide trashcan that sits...

Heimlaga, Is it something like this ?

Thanks.. Bill says minimum of 14" but it's on the right track.

Thanks for the link to the calculator, very good of you... but man, now my head is spinning... gas pipelining is soo much easier than that ventilation. I will try it again when I've had more sleep. Metal on aluminium strikes are easily done if you use your system to vacuum your floor or...

Hello Heimlaga, nice set up ... do you still have the cyclone plans you can send me please ? I couldn't find it on Bill's website - a lot of the links are now 404... no, I 've just found it. Doh. Can you show us your filter set up too, if you don't mind ? Although it's not nice to hear that...

A 1ph motor is not an option.. all my calculations showed 5Hp ws 20.7... & @ 3ph ="4A. Is the higher amp drawer due to efficiency/ inefficiency ..or they don't take load into the calculations.? It all adds up & I need to keep the power demand down. I should also install a consumption meter...

I realise that I have some calculations to do to get a system specification's correct ... I was a gas "engineer" with commercial & industrial pipework tickets until recently so I am used to working out pipework sizing but this is not quite the same. If I don't have air resistance data to work...

Brian; I am sneezing & sniffling as I have not set up anything like a decent system while I'm still installing my workshop (I don't want to waste cash on kit which I won't need once I work out what I need & get it, nor cut up existing gear to make it fit a temporary set up). My RAW, a sander &...