My Indexer Table

[kg4mon]

Well, What does the first project look like? Pics man, we need pics!!!!!

[jim_vv]

Rick, thanks for your help yesterday and this morning. You want pictures? O.K. Here goes...I am sure that you all will be so impressed!


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This morning I turned my blank down to 3.5 inches. Let me know if anyone wants for me to send you my file
. I spent the rest of the day working on a customer's job and building a trough around my indexer table to catch all of the flying debris (what a mess this thing makes!). I hope to draw something up in ArtCam tomorrow and make my blank pretty. More to follow.

JIM

[myxpykalix]

When you travel in one direction it flys to the left when you travel in the opposite direction it flys to the right.

However you might try a piece of plastic on either side that is slanted (see award winning illustration).


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[kg4mon]

Just remember Jim when your making a mess, your making money. So bring on the mess!!!! My wife says if this is true then she will come over and sweep it up just for me to keep on making wood chips. I don't know about you but when I made my first round blank, I was pretty dawn proud.

[rb99]

How come you cannot use a modified dust foot?

RB

[myxpykalix]

When you are carving a flat surface the dust foot lowers to the flat surface and create the vacumn.
When you are using the indexer you have no surface to lower to, to create the vacumn, especially if you are cutting a thin baluster.
(refer to the award winning illustration)

[jim_vv]

I have thought about making a modified dust foot, but like Jack says, I think a lot of vacuum may be lost because it would be hard to maintain a good seal. Also, when turning a blank round with a 1/2" cutter a lot of big splinters come off as the corners are knocked off at first. I think that they would plug up the dust foot's opening. I may be wrong.

[rb99]

I remember there was a really small dust foot on the Gerber machines years ago. IT was a small loop right at the bit, with no hairs. It went completely around the whole bit. Perhaps something like that?

RB

[myxpykalix]

Have you ever heard the saying "let the chips fall where they may"....

If you really want a "lazy mans dust collector"
get two window shades, mount on either side of the carriage and pull down when in use and let the chips hit the sahde and fall straight down. lol.