There are two woodshop improvement projects i’m hope someone can take on that unfortunately i personally do not have the time to take on myself. So i will personally throw money at the problem instead.
Project 1: Rolling cart + home depo make shift cyclone stand. Bounty: 30 dollars. [COMPLETED]
Remember the good ol days before our shopvac caught on fire? Yeah Pepperidge farms remembers. @MichaelG has put his shop vac on loan to the space but we now have two objects on the ground and it would be great to condense it so it’s a singular tower like it was before. All the materials you might need are in the shop so this should be an easy win for anyone who has the time to make it. Feel free to grab what you need out of the scrap bin. There’s casters floating around the space. You should not need to spend a single dime on materials on this project if you look around.
Does it have to be pretty? no. Does it have to have googley eyes… Yes. Obviously.
An example of this would be:
Project 2: 3d printed hose adaptor for our orbital sanders that will plug into the shop vac or Herbie Hoover. (15 dollars per orbital sander).
Sanding generates a large amount of sawdust which becomes airborne polluting the air in the space. We have two orbital sanders that don’t really effectively hook up to some active dust collection be it a shop vac or Herbie Hoover directly. IMO using an orbital sander without something sucking that sawdust in should really become frowned upon in the woodshop. We need to keep at least one available for larger projects that get sanded in the dmz so at least one of them should still be usable with the shopvac. Please also include the model (be it a link to the model or attached) so that it can be reprinted in the future.
The models of the orbital sanders I have in mind are these ones:
https://www.amazon.ca/SKIL-Random-Orbital-Sander-SR211601/dp/B07FKBDNNQ/
Post a video proving your creation works and meets the spec above and i’ll dm you for your email address to send the funds. First one to successfully meet the requirements of each will recieve the bounty.
The best part of this is… “NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY” - meaning everything you need is at VHS for you to make the things.
Mucho Gracias! Happy Hacking!
