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Special Pinterest-only offer! We use cookies to continuously improve our websites for you and optimize its design and customization. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Your best strategy is first to buy a univ e rsal adapter. These are available at stores that sell accessories for shop vacuums and home centers. The first is incredibly simple but not as effective. If possible, opt for the second option.
Both options are very cost-effective, presuming you already have a shop vac you can use. The most basic type of dust collection system is a cloth bag attached to the dust port of a tool.
When the hose is too big for it, you can use a reducer part to make it fit or even use duct tape. First, you will want to gather the necessary materials. The filter bag that is included with the dust collector does not trap the small particles that can be the most dangerous. Upgrading to a 0. It also increases the surface area , which means there is more suction. With more suction, there are more wood chips and dust from your miter saw being sucked up. The two-part dust collection system causes heavier pieces to fall into the trash can.
The lighter materials are sucked up by the dust collector. Your two-step dust collecting system is good to go! As the filter bag fills, the suction power decreases because there is less surface area for the wood chips to stick to. I can store a surprising amount of lumber in this area. I do have a secondary area for some cutoff sheet goods and a scrap bin next to my table saw in the garage. But this area stores most of my lumber. These pictures show the final look with everything primed and painted.
After I finished this step I moved on to building the attached structures on the back. I framed in a 4x8 Garden Shed on the back. I didn't want it so deep that stuff would get buried in it.
I need to take an updated picture of the back. These pics were from early on and I have changed some things in the organization. I used similar framing techniques and built a lean to roof attached with metal hangers. I chose to use clear corrugated roofing to allow natural light into this shed.
You can see the 2 shopvacs that were originally part of my simple vacuum system. I have removed them and found that I get better airflow using an electric leaf blower with the vacuum attachment hooked up to my system. There is a large metal trashcan with a dust collection separator to collect the larger pieces of saw dust and chips.
My air compressor is on a shelf on the right now and I ran a hose through the wall and to a 25 foot reel attached to the ceiling. I wired separate switched for both on the inside of my shop. These systems work extremely well for a small shop. The wall provides some insulation from the overwhelming noise they would otherwise create inside the shop. I later added two small 2x4 closets on the left and right sides of the Garden Shed. I use one to store camping and fishing gear, the other I will soon re purpose to use for my kids' sports gear.
This project may look a little overwhelming and I do consider myself pretty handy. However, I think just about anyone could complete this project. I spent a lot of time researching and educating myself on proper construction techniques. I have not come across any glaring mistakes along the way, but I welcome comments about the construction from more experienced builders. I spent so much time building organizers and filling in just about every square inch on the inside of my shop that I feel it will be better to show some of those in separate Instructables.
I made a couple of video tours to try to highlight some of the different aspects of my workshop. I hope you enjoy them and I will work on making my future videos more stable.
If I had more money in my budget I would have insulated the walls and ceiling to make it more comfortable during the hot summer days. I hope you enjoy this Instructable. Your comments and questions are welcome. Please lt me know if you think I left out details that would be important in the construction part of this Workshop. I hope you look forward to the upcoming Instuctables on the organization of my Workshop.
Reply 8 years ago on Introduction. Thanks, it's still my favorite part of the whole build. I never have to dig my way through stacks of lumber or leaning plywood, or best of all, piles of junk leaning against my stack of wood! I just pull off the hatches and grab what I need. It also makes it easy to take a quick inventory before i go shopping or start a project. Reply 5 years ago. I like this! For short boards and stuff you can suspend a bunch of those cardboard sonotubes for fencing using metal strapping.
You supply the ideas, and let RHINO supply the prefabricated steel building shop kit to fit your needs. When you buy a RHINO steel building, you set the exact size and choose the precise features you want. Do-it-yourselfers enjoy building or repairing things with their own two hands. That is why so many do-it-yourselfers choose metal building workshops— they can literally build it themselves— with the help of a few friends.
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