Not for you, for our mens shed!!!
Our Men's Shed has been going for about 6 months and we have about 20 members (only about half come at any one time) and we are currently operating out of a couple of lock up metal garages and the pre-voc centre of a local high school.
Weh have some plans for a new shed which is awaiting the usual slow approval process.
We have undertaken some community projects and a few members do their own thing but mostWe are slowly collecting machinery and most of the machines are 3 phase and "need some work". A small 6" 3 phase planer was the first machine I looked worked on. That had a broken magnetic switch, needed some derusting and a set of wheels and a DC post update. The next machine I am working on is a small combination machine which needed de-rusting and it too needs a dust collection port otherwise is just about ready to go . There was no DC until I loaned them a 2HP unit but in the meantime we got an interesting lead from another nearby high school who are gutting an old WW classroom and they need to get rid of their DC system so we went to check it out this morning.
The unit is a 2 bag 3phase (3HP) system. It looks dreadful but its just covered in dust.
It has a 10" main duct running into the impeller
The real score is the metal ducting , it's hard to see it in this photo but it has about 4 m of 10" then about 8m of 8" and then about 20m of 6" and a heap of 4" ducting
Most of the drop downs and metal blast gates are unfortunately 4" but they can still be useful if used in pairs etc.
This photo doesn't really capture the extent of the system some of which is under the floor.
The plan is to install a modified system into (DC outside) our new shed which is not going to be that big ~ 10 x 18 m and by the time you extract the coffee room, tolets and store there is not a lot to play with.
A 3HP is technically too small for even this size shed but something will be better than nothing and it should suffice to get us going.
Being 3 phase you can guess what the first thing is I will do - yep put a VFD onto it.
Our Men's Shed has been going for about 6 months and we have about 20 members (only about half come at any one time) and we are currently operating out of a couple of lock up metal garages and the pre-voc centre of a local high school.
Weh have some plans for a new shed which is awaiting the usual slow approval process.
We have undertaken some community projects and a few members do their own thing but mostWe are slowly collecting machinery and most of the machines are 3 phase and "need some work". A small 6" 3 phase planer was the first machine I looked worked on. That had a broken magnetic switch, needed some derusting and a set of wheels and a DC post update. The next machine I am working on is a small combination machine which needed de-rusting and it too needs a dust collection port otherwise is just about ready to go . There was no DC until I loaned them a 2HP unit but in the meantime we got an interesting lead from another nearby high school who are gutting an old WW classroom and they need to get rid of their DC system so we went to check it out this morning.
The unit is a 2 bag 3phase (3HP) system. It looks dreadful but its just covered in dust.
It has a 10" main duct running into the impeller
The real score is the metal ducting , it's hard to see it in this photo but it has about 4 m of 10" then about 8m of 8" and then about 20m of 6" and a heap of 4" ducting
Most of the drop downs and metal blast gates are unfortunately 4" but they can still be useful if used in pairs etc.
This photo doesn't really capture the extent of the system some of which is under the floor.
The plan is to install a modified system into (DC outside) our new shed which is not going to be that big ~ 10 x 18 m and by the time you extract the coffee room, tolets and store there is not a lot to play with.
A 3HP is technically too small for even this size shed but something will be better than nothing and it should suffice to get us going.
Being 3 phase you can guess what the first thing is I will do - yep put a VFD onto it.
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