Stevo's Playhouse

Grand. It doesn't preclude being sensible about dust, but I do find that the flat surfaces are less covered in the really fine shit after a couple of days whereas before that would have lingered in the air and eventually settled. Although the more I use it the more I realise that the filter is totally unecessary and probably restricts it. But, the filter holder is actually how it mounts to the ceiling so I'd need to re-engineer something to delete it completely. Not impossible, but in the CBA box right now.

Thanks - I'll see if I can get hold of a fan and give it bash. I've got so little room in my little shed to mount it, but above my spindle sander (the main culprit) seems like a sensible place.

The best things I did for dust in the air in my old shop (shed) was to plumb the dust extractor outside and have a flap in the tube near my main work table to get rid of any floating dust. Having it outside meant it didn’t stir up dust and was super quiet so you could leave it running all the time. I also got an extra long hose for the shop vac and plumbed that though the wall as well. My college lecturer said “you want to get that shit out and not just stir the fucker up” Gawd bless F’ing Malcom.

Nifty woodwork indeed - top job! Love the smell of a woodshop. Does the shed sit on a concrete pad?

and have a flap in the tube near my main work table

Do you have a pic?

Struggling to understand the flap.

No pics I’m afraid, but I basically made a blast gate out of PVC down pipe and some MDF. I really should have added a funnel to gather more air. It worked pretty well though.

Fantastic thread indeed. Some fine handiwork on display.

blast gate

This sent me down a rabbit hole that ended with this
https://youtu.be/GBmAj_hWV2A?si=EnC5_Oc-Iq-jfgL7

Been doing a few things. 1 is the annual "tart up some Aldi crap for mini_com"

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A front box for a forumer's cargo bike.

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Sliding (rolling) doors for my wife's Stars In Their Eyes themed 40th birthday themed karaoke party.

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Fun fact, the little pillow block type parts to allow me to fit the castors to the 40mm pvc pipe on the doors are made from oak as an offcut I had was already the right size to cut blocks from and just drill 40mm holes into two blocks clamped together.

Tremendous (and prodigious) work fella!

How do you do the dovetailing on the box?

That was CNC cut by a local place the former found and sent a file to.

This is exciting.

Especially as my current box is squeaky squeak squeak.

we bring shame to real men

Grand reveal : it’s my box.

Doors in use

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ms_com wanted something to hang a dust pan and brush. 30p on a cup hook or some beer, a blowtorch, spare screws and some alone time in the shed?

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Finally got round to levelling the floor. The concrete pad was laid on an angle for water run off and the company that put the shed up didn't take that into account (and I didn't ask them too so largely my own fault). I snapped a chalk line along the full diagonal of six 2" x 4"s to make 12 looooong wedges as my rudimentary math and laser level fuckery told me that would make up the slope for a full sheet of timber. I then used three full 18mm sheets of osb to cover the usable floor space (back 2' and left hand 2ish' are just storage anyway) with the wedges on 400mm centres. Worked out ok and a fairly cheap fix.

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Before

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After. Not perfect but better than before.

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Also making use of the retractable castors on the workbench means I have a lot more (now level) floor space.

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i love that you have a doormat in your shed.

great work.