My workshop studio
Below are some pictures of my workshop. I'm very fortunate to have plenty of space and high ceilings. The pictures pretty much speak for themselves. The only thing I'll mention is my dust collection system.
A couple of years ago I decided to upgrade to a relatively large (3HP) dust collection system from Penn State. Along with that I completely replaced my 4" duct work with 6" (the green plastic pipes in my pictures). It works great! The only negative is the noise. Even with the actual dust collection system in an adjoining room, it is still very noisy.
One thing of interest is the way in which I built wye connectors off of the 6" duct work for each tool. I found the factory 6" to 4" wye connectors to be relatively expensive and because I was going to need about 10 of them I decided to try a different approach - I built my own.
Using templates created by a program at this web site http://www.harderwoods.com , I was able to cut the appropriate (oblong) holes in the 6" green, plastic pipe and to cut the end of the 4" dark gray, plastic pipe to the appropriate shape. I glued the 4" pipe over the hole in the 6" pipe using epoxy cement and applied ordinary silicon caulk around the edge to make a tight seal. It worked great and saved me a ton of money!
A couple of years ago I decided to upgrade to a relatively large (3HP) dust collection system from Penn State. Along with that I completely replaced my 4" duct work with 6" (the green plastic pipes in my pictures). It works great! The only negative is the noise. Even with the actual dust collection system in an adjoining room, it is still very noisy.
One thing of interest is the way in which I built wye connectors off of the 6" duct work for each tool. I found the factory 6" to 4" wye connectors to be relatively expensive and because I was going to need about 10 of them I decided to try a different approach - I built my own.
Using templates created by a program at this web site http://www.harderwoods.com , I was able to cut the appropriate (oblong) holes in the 6" green, plastic pipe and to cut the end of the 4" dark gray, plastic pipe to the appropriate shape. I glued the 4" pipe over the hole in the 6" pipe using epoxy cement and applied ordinary silicon caulk around the edge to make a tight seal. It worked great and saved me a ton of money!