| Project by RipSawRon | posted 70 days ago | 321 views | 0 times favorited | 5 comments | ![]() |
Hi there, I would like to thank all of the members that have given me a warm welcome so far, todays photos are of my first heavy duty saw, it is a used 10 inch Craftsman set up with a router table built in the side, I built a home made dust collector pick up on a sheet metal plate that is sandwiched between the saw and the base. The saw was bought from a nice guy in my area, he posted it on Craig’s List for 500 bucks, he gave the saw, dados,blades,gigs,a bench top power plainer,and a bunch of other stuff as well, a nice guy and a good deal for 500 smack-a-roos.
When I brought it home I had a buddy help me get it off the truck and on to my tool cart, well it has been a few months and today I decided to put it on it’s base with my dust collector gizmo, no one was around to help me, so I made due with converting my 25 foot high lift into a fork lift, it worked wonderful and I think that I will make some wooden forks for future projects.
Take care
Ron
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5 comments so far
Scott Bryan
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posted 70 days ago
Hi Ron,
Congratulations on the nice find. For $500 you certainly got your money’s worth. Well done. Nice use of the lift as well. That is something that sure comes in handy at times.
Thanks for the post.
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jockmike2
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posted 69 days ago
You got a great deal good luck and watch those fingers. mike
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John Gray
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posted 68 days ago
I like you dust collector system. COOL!!!
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RipSawRon
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posted 68 days ago
The dust collector is made from off the rack HVAC parts at home depot, I traced the stand outside Dims on a piece of sheet metal, cut that out and then traced out the 6”X10” vent location on the sheet, drilled a hole with my step bit to get my tin snips started and cut that out, the 6X10 vent had a high sholder on it, I cut down the corners and bent them to make a flange and screwed it to the sheet, then the sheet to the saw stand base. Now we added an adjustable elbow with a reducer to bring the pipe size down to 4 inches. My next step is to add a blast gate, then a T pipe that will go to the router table built in to the table saw unit, that will also have a blast gate so I can select the port with only one hook up to the machine.
WEAR GLOVES WHEN WORKING SHEET METAL!
Thanks for looking
Ron
Texasgaloot
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posted 47 days ago
I have the same saw, with an added 52” Beisemeyer fence and 24” outfeet table across the whole thing. You’re going to find this hard to believe, but when I moved last, I put the entire setup into the back of my pickup truck alone. I was motivated to get to our present place of residence…
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