Estimated how much activated charcoal pellets we might want in the laser filtration system, found a reasonably priced listing on Amazon, and ordered 5 litres, which should be enough for about 6mm depth across all six trays. If this works well we can order a larger quantity next time. It’s consumable so we’ll want to pay attention to the exhaust smell. Our filtration system was always intended to use activated charcoal but for whatever reason there hasn’t been any in there for a long time. Maybe it constrained the flow too much?
turns out the current design with a huge cross section area flowing through a very shallow layer of filter medium may not be as good as we thought; we may want to bikeshed^Wdesign an inline filter, where a section of duct can get packed with filter medium.
Was at VHS yesterday with @chadleaman and spent a bunch of minutes taking type out of the attic in preparation for a meeting today. Thanks to the folks who wrapped it previously - made it a lot easier.
On saturday I did a bit more on the floor in the machine shop, and got the lathe standing on its own four feet.
I also adjusted the heating duct on the woodshop side of the space; it turns out that you can just rotate duct elbows! I’ll try to get a wire wrapped around it, secured to the ceiling to keep it from rotating down.
Put the beer/pop cans out in the back lane for the binners
Sorted out the “Revolution Recycling” bin - removed food waste and - random garbage that should not go there
wiped down all the surfaces with damp cloth to get rid of layer of dust. 3D Printer bench, main work tables, intake desk, sewing area, lounge, laser cutter desk, laser cutter, stair rails, upstairs office tables
I’m in Toronto at the Collision conference right now, but I did spend some time talking to people working on stuff that should be of interest to VHSers. I’ll post some links when I have more time.
Updated the membership page to remove the text that says “we ain’t really up and running yet”. We’re always improving stuff but I think we are definitely open for business.
I did some Minutes for VHS today, but will possibly redo at least some of them. Making an adapter for the ER32 collet holder for the manual mill. This will open up the range of endmills that can be used on the machine.