Totally agree Mike, that was a great investment and an addition to my B machine. Check your PM's
Totally agree Mike, that was a great investment and an addition to my B machine. Check your PM's
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I have 2 Carvewrights and both are equipped with Floyds DC Insert with the HF Dust Collector. I was concerned about the airflow when I have both machines going, but after that first time of running both at the same time, my concerns were gone.
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as a followup, I want to clarify about a tablespoon or two of carvings left after running almost 8 hours. While that is true - it isn't exactly accurate. Followup carving on a couple of other things basically left a clean machine. The little remaining was actually between the lower belts below the board from cutting after carving. The cut kerf was mostly packed with sawdust when done.
I think what was in the machine was what fell out the bottom side, and dislodged while I removed the board from the machine. I have also noticed the muffler dust bag seems to no longer have any dust in it since using the dust collector.
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Mike,
You are right, the dust down between the belts is from doing the cut out/path. I use the down draft (the long slot between the two belts) when I do any cut paths.
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here are pictures of inside my machine as it finished carving 7 hours on a two sided project. Pictures were taken as the machine paused for me to change the bit to the cutting bit.
As you can see there is very little debris left inside the machine. The dust bag/muffler is clean inside when removed and inspected.
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Ring Neck Blues DC Insert (outstanding job keeping machine clean!), HF DC blower
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I would certainly echo what Mike has said and documented. I did 2 back to back 5 hour carves yesterday and the inside of my CW looked just like Mike's pictures. It has been a great addition to both of my CWs and I know has saved me tons of $$ in problems that I have never had. Over 300 hours on one machine and almost 220 on the other with NO issues whatsoever .... I attribute it to good solid dust collection and following the maintenance schedule .....
John
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I been doing a lot of cut through with my CW,
I am having a lot of dust packed in the slot. I am using one of the old design wood cut outs that goes on the tray in front of the spindle.
Does the ring neck help with keeping the cut out slots cleared?
John
John,
Good question. What I have noticed is it depends a lot on the type of wood you are cutting out. Sappy woods like pine do seem to keep the saw dust in the cut path more than the harder woods. The DC-INSERT will help suck some of the dust out of the path but it will not get it all out. When I am doing cut outs I open up my down draft slot and doing so it seems to help pull some down through the middle slot in the machine.
Hope to get other DC-INSERT user comments on this as well.
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