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Blast Gate Improvement

September 10th, 2009 in The Gallery     
MyCousinVinny MyCousinVinny, member
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Before I Cut the gate it will not close fully. Shave the corner open, Not off.......
Blast Gaste Improvement
After Shaving open the corner and clearins out the wood, I now closes fully ans face the openning down it will always clear itself out every time you close it....
Before I Cut the gate it will not close fully. Shave the corner open, Not off.......

Before I Cut the gate it will not close fully. Shave the corner open, Not off.......

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If you use these anoying Plastic gates that do not want to close. Check this out. I cut the corner and faced it down and it clears itself out............


Design or Plan used: My own design - Vincent C Pirrone
posted in: The Gallery, tool, workshop, WorkBench, wood turning, accessory, bench, tool chest
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Comments (5)

MyCousinVinny writes: It leave a thin slot basically. Not very much vacuum leak at all. Not as bad as a gate that does not close all the way. Posted: 11:53 pm on September 13th
baudi writes: Don't those holes leak when the gate is open? Posted: 9:58 am on September 12th
MyCousinVinny writes: If you are familiar with these plastic Gates on your dust collection system, After a while of use they do not want to close fully. Therefore, not sealing when closed which causes lose of suction to another piece of equipment. The inside slot that the slide gate move in fills with wood dust and chips and every time you close them it packs it in more. I used to take a nail every few months and clean out this grove but it is a Pain. Since I did this 2 years ago, I never had a problem again. If you look a the picture, I just shaved the corner so it would be open to alow the packed saw dust to drop out every time you close it. in the picture you can see the actual wood packed in it right after I cut the corner. If you look at the gate closely you can see it was not closed all the way, That was as far as it would close before I did this. Posted: 10:59 pm on September 11th
F0054700 writes: I'm with baudi could you explain it more Posted: 9:04 am on September 11th
baudi writes: Seems like a good idea, but I'm not sure I follow. Could you explain a little more? Posted: 3:09 pm on September 10th
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