9fingers
Established Member
I bought a chaiwanese 12 inch thicknesser from a forum member about 6 months ago. A fine solid bit of kit that performed well from the outset but was ill mannered enough to throw all the shavings on the floor or bench.
I needed a way to collect the shavings and feed them to my DC that has 100mm hose.
I had some 100mm drain pipe in the workshop. This is standard soil pipe as used in France. Ours is 110mm. I buy it in the DIY sheds in France when on holiday. It does not take up much space as you can fill the centre up with wine bottles!!
The unmodified machine looks like this.
The blade guard showed little resistance to the bandsaw
I then put the shortened guard back into the machine
The drain pipe gets a rectangular slot cut in it the full width of the thicknesser outlet and bolted to a simple aluminium bracket. One end of the pipe has an mdf plug cut to a force fit.
and
The bracket has mounting holes drilled in it and these are used as a jig to drill and tap holes in the cutter block casting. there are 5 in totla but the picture just shows 2.
Finally a couple of views of the extraction adaptor fitted.
The device is not an air/dust tight fit but it does not matter. In use every shaving is sucked up and the bench stays perfectly clear. I should have done this months ago.
Bob
I needed a way to collect the shavings and feed them to my DC that has 100mm hose.
I had some 100mm drain pipe in the workshop. This is standard soil pipe as used in France. Ours is 110mm. I buy it in the DIY sheds in France when on holiday. It does not take up much space as you can fill the centre up with wine bottles!!
The unmodified machine looks like this.
The blade guard showed little resistance to the bandsaw
I then put the shortened guard back into the machine
The drain pipe gets a rectangular slot cut in it the full width of the thicknesser outlet and bolted to a simple aluminium bracket. One end of the pipe has an mdf plug cut to a force fit.
and
The bracket has mounting holes drilled in it and these are used as a jig to drill and tap holes in the cutter block casting. there are 5 in totla but the picture just shows 2.
Finally a couple of views of the extraction adaptor fitted.
The device is not an air/dust tight fit but it does not matter. In use every shaving is sucked up and the bench stays perfectly clear. I should have done this months ago.
Bob
