MN-Woodshop

Education

BOSS Woodshop I: Tools for Wood Preparation

Woodworking Camp

Band Saws

• Jet JWBS-14CS 14" Woodworking Band Saw
• Grizzly G0511 20" Heavy-Duty Bandsaw

Drill Presses

• Delta 17-900 Drill Press
• Delta 11-990 Benchtop Drill Press
• PowerMatic Drill Press

Jointer

Powermatic 60 B 8" Jointer

Lathes

• Nova DVR XP Woodlathe
• Jet 1014 Mini Lathes (4)

Advice on wood lathe use

Miter Saw

DeWalt 12" Sliding Compound Miter Saw

Mortiser

Powermatic PM701 Benchtop Mortiser

Planer

Powermatic PM180 18" Planer

Router Table

Bosch Router

Sanders

• Jet JWDS-1632 16" Drum Sander
• Belt & Disc Sander
• Spindle Sander

Scroll Saw

DeWalt DW788 20" Variable-Speed Scroll Saw

Table Saw

SawStop Professional 3HP Table Saw

A good video on one aspect of table saw kickback safety.

CNC Router

ShopBot

We have a 4x4 ShopBot. ShopBot tips

We have a license to the makerspace edition of Vetric V-Carve. To activate your copy use the license key found in this document on our GSuite file share.

Hand Power Tools

• Drills
• Drivers
• Routers
  • Plunge Router
  • Fixed Base Router
  • Trim Router
• Sanders
  • Random Orbit Sander
  • Belt Sander
• Sawzall
• Skilsaw

When using the battery powered tools, always pull a fresh battery off the charger (and put any battery previously attached to the tool onto that same charger) when you start to use a tool. That way, regardless of what pattern other people are following, you always start off with a fresh battery, and at least one other fully-charged battery will be available for the next person who needs one.

Personal Protection

Faceshield with airflow TREND AIR PRO Airshield Faceshield

Dust Control

Many woodworking tools produce fine dust, which can be both a breathing hazard and a potential fire hazard. Sawdust and other debris on floors can also be a slipping hazard. At Maker Nexus we employ a number of measures to mitigate these hazards.

Hoses from our central dust collectors connect to various machines in the Wood Shop to suck up dust as it is created and filter it out of the air. When using machines connected to the dust collectors, aways check to see that the air intakes are drawing effectively.

Our air filtration units can continuously circulate the air in the shop, filtering out dust not picked up by the dust collectors. A home-built air quality monitoring system incorporating multiple particle counters will control the air filtration units and also allow us to keep a record of air quality in the shop.

We have several shop vacs (as well as dust cloths, brooms, and mops) for members to use to clean their work areas and the surrounding floor. When using tools that require reservations, remember to stop work in time to use the last portion of your reserved time slot—not the beginning of the next person's time—for clean-up.

Finally, when you are using a machine that generates a lot of dust, or when particularly dusty operations are going on in the shop, we recommend—and may sometimes require—that you wear a dust mask.

Dust Collectors

When you turn off a dust collector, after it spins down, turn the beater handle through 3-4 complete rotations to knock free any material that has been pulled tight against the filter paper. If you don't do that, the filters get clogged and CFM goes down, and air quality suffers. (The beater handle is the metal handle that hangs down from the top of the filter.)

• Jet DC-1200VX Dust Collector
• Powermatic PM1900 Dust Collector

Air Filtration

Jet AFS-2000 Air Filtration Units

housekeeping

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