Trap Door Woodworks specializes in making furniture and built-in cabinetry with hidden compartments and secret features. I also create 'normal' looking furniture that hides secret passages, and some day, possibly an actual trap door 😊 I also build furniture and cabinetry with unusual features and things out of wood that you normally don't see made of wood - like a vanity sink I made years ago made entirely of wood!
Some nice tips! I'm thinking of tackling at least a couple of ducts to the table saw and portable planer. What are your thoughts on the 35 gallon 2 hp unit from harbor freight?
Thanks Shed, the bag over bag units should work well for occasional use. I've never owned one myself, but have heard they are a good starter unit. Bag filters in general don't filter out the fine very fine stuff, but they are much better than no filter at all. A unit with a canister filter would be a great upgrade if you can afford it.
Hi Mojo,that was a great video and great progress was made..can't believe the insane amount of rain New Hampshire got in six hours they got 81/2 inches roads washed out bridge gone and some fatalities.
Thanks Larry! Didn't even hear about NH! That's a lot of water! We get rain like that here as well - quite a bit more actually - and it can take months or years to clean-up. The last one was "the big rain" where we got 18" of rain overnight. It took out a bunch of ridges and there were landslides all over the place. Several housed slid off the hillsides in that rain 😮
@@adenvet2830 We registered 11" here on our weather station during that same storm We get concentrated rainfalls here as storms are funneled through hollows. That 18" rainfall was in Boland hollow about a mile from us. The water washed huge piles of boulders down onto roads at the bottom making almost every road impassable. It was quire the night! One person died as his house washed off the side of the bluff and completely disintegrated.
The big box stores sell ductwork that is 26 gauge at best, but likely 28 gauge. If you were to close the blast gates, the system would collapse! That stuff is way too thin! 😮
That ductwork really makes the place look like a regulation shop! Did you use SketchUp to design it? I was amazed that the two sections actually connected together in the air like that, that was pretty awesome 😊👍
Hi 51ubetcha! Yes, there will be a sanding table, but it will be on the main trunk of the system (full 7" diameter duct to it). It will be on the wall directly across from the collector. I hope to assist the flow rate with the old blower from our heater, so it should be a pretty interesting build! 😊
Great job Mojo! It was hard to see how the two sections would come together, but in the end, they matched up perfect! Never thought I would be this excited to see ductwork go up. 😉
I keep forgetting to mention that there will be another video where I revamp a 55 gallon drum a bit, then remake the lid by combining an old lid from the previous system (made for fiber drums), with an actual lid for a 55 gallon drum - so it looks like 3-more videos on the Oneida Cyclone installation (for now). Some of the tools and materials used can be found here: Large Gripple - amzn.to/3Wvxg5R Medium Gripple - amzn.to/3Sag96L Small Gripple - amzn.to/4bQcKkS Gripple Torq Tool Tensioner - amzn.to/3SffjWp Extra Thin Metal Cutting Jig Saw Blade - amzn.to/3W647wy 5-Blade Crimper for Ductwork - amzn.to/3Y93ULG 7" Galvanized 26 Ga. Plug - amzn.to/3W47K6c 55-Gallon Drum Dolly - amzn.to/3S8UUCs 5" x 10' Ultra-Flex Clear Vue Heavy Duty PVC Dust Collection Hose - amzn.to/3WczR4f Tie Down Anchors Lashing Rings - amzn.to/4cC3MsH 1/8 Stainless Steel Wire Cable - amzn.to/4cWyFaZ Self-Fusing Silicone Rubber Sealing Tape - amzn.to/3xCWzcE 10 Inch Adjustable Stainless Steel Worm Gear Hose Clamps - amzn.to/3Wd38fn 5 Inch Key Hose Clamp - amzn.to/45SKpsL
It makes absolutely no difference to the system, but I really like the looks of that blue line running along the corner of the ceiling like that! It will look even better when you get rid of those temporary extension cords, but it still looks great now! 😊
Hi Mojo, great video and your skill level is right up there.here in the UK it's been a pretty disappointing summer so far it's just hovering between 18c and 20c in the day and some nights as low as 8c👎
Thanks Larry! That would be perfect working weather for me! Today it will be 91º and very humid (33℃) here, and I think I'll head to the store for supplies and sit this one out. It was the same yesterday, and I worked through it 🔥🔥🔥🔥
We need a Meet Mojo episode where you sit and explain your past, present and future. You do so many things well, I would truly like to hear who you are and how you came to be.
Thanks J, I may do something like that some day! In a nutshell; I have worked a bunch of jobs back in the day, and grew up very poor (lived in a housing project) so learned how to fix things early on 😉 Professionally, I have worked with wood in one way or another my entire life (apprenticed as a cabinetmaker back in the 70's and owned my own custom furniture business), and that led to software engineer gig (designing 3D interiors for mega yachts) and my own software engineering company more recently. Having said that, I also did roofing, siding, window installation, plumbing, framing, and helped my electrician uncle pull wires on commercial jobs, and was a chef at a fancy restaurant. 🥴
@@TrapDoorWoodworks No wonder your skillset is so varied and thorough! You are a natural at explaining stuff, and I really like watching, put yourself on camera more, people will respond! Your personality sells!
@@TrapDoorWoodworks The only way to conquer shyness is to get accustomed to putting yourself out there, a little at a time! I will be here watching! I honestly think that will drive the channel as much as anything you have done. Just putting yourself out there. Easier said than done, I know!
I used a 20 gallon compressor like that in my original shop. I hoisted it up in the rafters and mounted it on foam, then ran regular rubber air line to a couple places in the shop. It was NOT enough air for a sander, but worked for guns. The hose was 3/8", but even if I went up to 1/2" it would not have been able to keep up with a sander. I would say the MaxLine 1/2" would work awesome for your system as long as it's not too large. That way you could upgrade the compressor at any time and be able to run a sander if you like (pneumatic sanders are the best in my opinion). Hope that helps! 😊
That looks pretty difficult, but not nearly as hard as black pipe! I helped a friend run some black pipe for his auto body shop about 20 years ago, and it was very difficult! We rented a pipe threader and had to pre-assemble large sections of the system and hoist it into place. It was heavy, oily, and rusty. They sure have come a long way with this!
I fixed a bit of black pipe line at a shop I worked at way back when. It was a short section, but it took all day. It was a rusty mess, and I had to use a hand die to thread the ends. Black pipe is very strong, and they will continue to use it for larger systems, but I don't think it will be used at all for 1" systems and less moving forward. 🤔
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I agree! ...and metal ductwork on the ceiling as opposed to flex hose on the floor looks much more professional, and is as out of the way as it can be 😊
Thanks Dave! I just ordered this morning, and he said the order will go out this week. The last big order I placed with them took about a month, but that was 22 years ago - apparently they have sped things up since then 😉 Actually, I think all deliveries have sped up since Amazon became a thing 🤔
Thanks Larry! I hope all of the problems are thought of, but even if not, it will make things dramatically easier when it comes time to hang the ductwork. 😊
I can't wait to see the ductwork go in! I'm going to be using PVC, and the ceiling is shorter, but I'm getting some good ideas about the actual layout. How did you come up with the machinery placement?
Thanks NewWoodGuy! I laid out my machinery with several considerations in mind: 1) All of them have as much infeed/outfeed as possible (2 can go through doorways). 2) They are close to the main power source. 3) They are in order of of the wood processing. (chop, joint, plane, rip) 4) They are in a straight line for the duct work. Having said that, I may do some tweaking, but this is the order that I work wood, and the layout should work for me just fine. My biggest problem in previous shops was floor space for big projects.
I forgot to mention, I found the hanger brackets in the hanger area of the plumbing section at Menards. These are generally used for heavy steel/iron pipes, and these particular brackets are tapped for a 3/8" threaded hanger. I will be using 3/8" eye bolts as hangers.
I ran overhead ductwork in a restaurant once, and we laid things out very similar to that. We had a duct poking out of the wall, and dropped plum to the floor and repeated it on the other side of the room like that. The owners were VERY adamant that the ducts be straight! It came out perfect! 😊
My first thinking was to snap a line on the ceiling, but that would have been major work and would have only hit the ridges. I thing this is the best way even without a tin ceiling though 😊
Hi Mojo, that was a super clean-up it's a pity you couldn't keep it that clean all the time I think I'd put an hour by for clean-up at the end of the day.
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I'm really jealous now! I really need to get out there and deep clean my shop! There is a compressor just inside the door that a put there one day when it was raining, and I have been walking around it for weeks. 😩 The rest of the shop is just as bad. I'm pulling the trigger and doing the big clean this weekend!
Great job Mojo! I have never seen these before, and they look like the perfect solution for a problem I have. Do they come in a shorter version? Our family has like a dozen sets of skis along with their poles and other equipment , and this would be perfect for that!
I was surprised at how cluttered this shop had gotten! I really need storage to get things in their place! These racks are not the place to put things, but I will load them up with the build stuff for now!
That's something I should do as well, and probably every woodworker out there! You pay so much for lumber, it's really hard to throw any little scrap away! But in the end, I need to do the same as well - go through it and burn what I'll never use. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks Larry! The racks will not have shelves on most of them in the final version, but while I am working on the shop, they will be loaded-up with whatever will fit 😊 They are designed to be used for holding longer things, not so much as storage - but I may use the top ones for storing bigger things at some point. In the next video, I cleaned an organized for four days, and loaded them to the hilt! It looks very different in here 😊
I have similar racks, but they are only 12" (really 11" on the actual arms), and I love them. If I were to buy standards and arms separately, the equal sized shelf would cost hundreds of dollars!
None of the dewalt vacs that arent actual dust extractors arent made by dewalt, theyre made by alton. Same company that makes the stanley and porter cable shop vacs. Although ive got a stanley and a dewalt and theyre both immortal. Also the cheap shit hose is basically every shop vac these days
Thanks Bread! Interesting that they are made by the same company that makes Porter Cable. My Porter Cable3 vac is about 25 years old, but it is an awesome vac for fine dust (anything really). I'm going to pick up a DeWalt "STEALTHSONIC Ultra Quiet" vacs soon, and it's good to hear that they are made by a quality manufacturer!
Just a quick video to show that on lees complicated (bend wise) conduit pulls, you can tape up varied lengths of wires that will stop at multiple boxes. You generally want to leave a loop of wire behind in boxes you pass through just in case you want to tap-in later on, but in this case, that will never happen as these are three dedicated circuits - if I need a new circuit, I will pull more wire.
Thanks Larry! The dust collector and compressor startups will be coming soon! Those are going to be nail-biters for me 😮It will be very nice to have compressed air at all times!
@@TrapDoorWoodworks the day we got air tools in the car industry was the day a lot of my aches and pains vanished such as tennis elbow golfers elbow to name a few.
@@adenvet2830 I can believe that! When I used to work in a commercial cabinet shop, I would use air tools all day - guns and sanders for the most part. When I got home to my side business and sanded with my electric sander, it was nowhere near as good of a finish, had very little control, and felt like a brick it was so heavy! The compressor I had at the time would not power a sander, but this one surely will 😊
Nearly there! I'm waiting to see that jointer fired up! I watched the video where you installed the shelix cutter, but haven't seen it started since then. It will be nice to hear some machinery running! 😊
