I went to bought some tung oil from craftivi, BLO from ACE.
Later can so a comparison on a piece of wood.

The combustion of the BLO rags is a bit scary tho.

I wonder our high humidity here will cause wood to move a lot or not.

First post on this thread for 2017

Make a bucket "cyclone" for my dust collector.
Benefit compare to my vacuum
1) low rumbling sound feel better
2) moderate suction only pick up wood dust and shavings. The vacuum with strong suction always accidentally suck things in.
3) Finally I have a 4 inch hose vacuum.

Main component are transparent bucket and 4 inch sewage pipes.

Future plan, dig a hole in the wall and put the motor unit outside. Direct exhaust the air outdoor no need those 2 big cloth bag as filter and guaranteed better air quality



This post has been edited by yushin: Jan 16 2017, 10:03 PM

Compare to vacuum cleaner, the dust collector make a low rumbling sound while vacuum makes a higher pitched sound. Low rumbling sound feels better for me.
The motor and fan runs ok. Some rattling sound come from uneven bottom vibrate against the floor.

If I dig a 4 inch hole on the floor and install the motor unit outside the house(back lane) then I don't need to worry about the HEPA filter.

How to dig a 4 inch hole on wall? drill lots of smaller holes then knock it off?

This post has been edited by yushin: Jan 17 2017, 11:56 AM

I wonder how much a 100mm diamond hole cutter will costs.

Thanks for the guide.
If order this probably will arrive after CNY.
I wonder how much local store is selling this...

This post has been edited by yushin: Jan 18 2017, 09:34 AM

I know the design is odd but from my testing, most of the wood dust 9maybe 95% ?) and chips get captured in the bin before going to the DC.
The long pipe allows me to test which length into the bin is more effective.

Actually I have 2 machines.
One is a vacuum cleaner (low airflow, high suction, using 35mm pipe)
Another one is a dust collector (high airflow, lower suction, uses 4 inch pipe)
This picture should explain the experiment I am doing.

The DC blower unit is the one that will be put outside the room, hope no one will steal that...

The thread starter did not complain his thread become powertool rojak thread so I think its fine.
Not many ppl asks about powertools so better concentrate on single thread so the thread wont sink haha.

I even put dust collector topic here

Btw, what you plan to use the oscillating tool for?

I myself using a RM280 china rotary hammer (Bosch GBH2-24 clone), its doing fine.
The thing is so heavy so now if I am not doing chiseling I will use the GBH10VLi compact instead.

Mansory (Red/cement brick) drilling = hammer drill
Concrete drilling (Usually condo) = rotary hammer

What other woodworking too you think you need?

I have Bosch Oscillating tool, I mainly use it to cut flush wood join surface and sanding corners.
It also can cut the grout between tiles but personally I never use this function yet.

This post has been edited by yushin: Jan 23 2017, 02:51 PM

18V cordless

There are many corded version that is a lot cheaper.

This post has been edited by yushin: Jan 23 2017, 02:58 PM

My previous black and decker drill went missing lol.
Never seen Wess or Okatz brand but I believe those china OEM rotary hammer sufficient from home use.
You're not drilling 100 holes everyday I hope.

Depending on TV cabinet design, if you just want to get something to put your LCD TV on sometime those TV cabinet sold in Tesco is easier. RM149 settle.

If you want some very special TV cabinet like pallet wood pattern then you have to do it yourself.

A skil circular saw + sander could easily go over RM500 already.
Or you plan to take the hand tool path and treat it as a form of exercise.

Not many living in city has that big space...
That glide miter saw is syiok tho.. RM2.8k.

It was my target too but too big too heavy for my small room. End up using table saw instead.

This post has been edited by yushin: Jan 24 2017, 09:44 AM

Nice tools but not cheap arr... For us Malaysian

Lets estimate how much that workshop will costs...
I added something that I think might be useful

Maybe I will make another list of cheaper brands



This post has been edited by yushin: Jan 24 2017, 11:27 AM

Ya.. given how shit our exchange rate become, 10k is not a lot
Visit amazon or rocker site, click something then can easily total up to RM1k. Half of it is courier charge
Lots of the jigs can be build so can save a bit.

I don't know where to get those board with lots of holes so I end up using cleat system in my workroom.

Build another sheet for cheaper tools.
Almost half savings.



This post has been edited by yushin: Jan 24 2017, 12:07 PM

Actually for crosscuts, table saw also can do with the basic miter gauge.
If you build a crosscut jig it will crosscut even better.

The 2 long tube behind the sliding miter saw takes up too much space in a small room.

Already done mine in french cleat, maybe still can use pegboard for smaller tool/area.

New machine in my workroom. There goes my CNY ang pow money.
Weights 80+ kg argh my back ache.
Thanks to the delivery man who carry it to the workroom.

I begin to like this bandsaw more than my table saw.
Reasons:
1) Quiet - I can use this machine to cut wood without wearing hearing protection. It so quiet compare to my table saw. Even the vacuum is louder than this bandsaw.
2) Clean - Cutting wood does not generate a wood dust cloud like the table saw & miter saw. Makes woodworking in air cond room feels much better.
3) Can cut straight line - This is what surprises me. Maybe not as straight as a table saw on ripping a few meter wood but it sufficient for wood that is less than 1 meter.
4) Can cut curves - (Table saw: you win liao lor... )
5) Can cut very small piece of wood - I dont dare to put my finger too near to tablesaw blade.
6) Cast iron body - My bosch 10.8v light can be used to provide additional lighting.
7) Cast iron table - feels very solid, but I dunno what benefit it cast iron table does over aluminum table.


Now waiting for the china clone super dust deputy comes...

This post has been edited by yushin: Feb 3 2017, 10:54 PM

Mine GTS10J has variance of 0.5-1mm if ripping long piece of wood.
Shorter piece below 2 feet usually less than 0.5mm, have to use digital caliper to measure it.

I use trim router to trim away the extra edges after assembly.

Btw I don't recommend putting whole 4'x8' plywood on the table saw to cut, the table is too small to be stable. You need to build additional infeed & outfeed support table.

This post has been edited by yushin: Feb 6 2017, 09:41 AM

Personally I can handles 2 x 3 feet plywood on the table without extra support. The offcuts can fall off.
Just need to be a bit careful and make sure the off cuts dont swing into the blade. Thats why the top cover and riving knife of table saw is extremely important.

Btw what you plan to build?

This post has been edited by yushin: Feb 6 2017, 10:46 PM