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Perfect, Sort Of
Oct. 3rd, 2017 11:39 amAnd now, having let my daughter and son-in-law know that I'm a phone call away, I'm off to the Home Depot. Where I expect that, any day, they're gonna tell me they've reserved a special spot for me, right across from the entrance.
Actually, I'm just gonna pick up some hardware to replace in the vacuum port project that I did yesterday on the bench grinder. Even though it may not function as intended.
The fabrication part of the project was to allow attachment of my shop vac to the cover which protects the wire wheel. And it does do that and looks like a factory-built part of the machine.
But as far as its functionality, I'm not so sure. The reason for the vacuum port is that I'd hoped to draw off the dirt, rust, metal particles that I might be cleaning off whatever parts I might be fabricating or servicing.
And it appears, at least preliminarily, that the wire wheel itself generates so much of an air-flow, within the housing, that it negates the effect of even a very good shop vac.
However, in my typical obsessive fashion, I'm going to go ahead and tweak what I've already done with the intention of just capping the damn thing off if it really doesn't work. But it'll be perfect. It won't work, but it'll be perfect.
But, we'll see. Preliminary results may not tell the whole story.
That's what I'll be telling myself on the way out to the Home Depot...
LPK
Dreamwidth
10.3.2017
Actually, I'm just gonna pick up some hardware to replace in the vacuum port project that I did yesterday on the bench grinder. Even though it may not function as intended.
The fabrication part of the project was to allow attachment of my shop vac to the cover which protects the wire wheel. And it does do that and looks like a factory-built part of the machine.
But as far as its functionality, I'm not so sure. The reason for the vacuum port is that I'd hoped to draw off the dirt, rust, metal particles that I might be cleaning off whatever parts I might be fabricating or servicing.
And it appears, at least preliminarily, that the wire wheel itself generates so much of an air-flow, within the housing, that it negates the effect of even a very good shop vac.
However, in my typical obsessive fashion, I'm going to go ahead and tweak what I've already done with the intention of just capping the damn thing off if it really doesn't work. But it'll be perfect. It won't work, but it'll be perfect.
But, we'll see. Preliminary results may not tell the whole story.
That's what I'll be telling myself on the way out to the Home Depot...
LPK
Dreamwidth
10.3.2017
