Re: Shopsmith hacks
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2020 3:07 pm
I had to add one more hack...
Here is my second cooling fan for my SS. The first one was using a shop-vac to cool the headstock. It worked fine, cheap, filtered air and plenty of air flow. But it sure was noisy and added a little heat to the air flow. I've used the the shop-vac version for several hours straight with no heat buildup.
But... I did not like the noise. So..
I purchased a centrifugal blower from Amazon and a shop-vac filter from Home Depot that works better. No extra heat to the air flow, a lot less noise and compact.
The blower is rated @ 135cfm and very quite. Probably don't need that much air flow but I wanted to ensure it would pull air thru the filter. I used the adapter I had made for the shop-vac version, just a simple hose to hole adapter that uses the top flange on the inspection hole on the backside of the headstock and the weight of the hose/ blower to hold it in place. There are no modifications made to the headstock. There is plenty of room between the blower and the quill feed handle. The blower is from Amazon 3.3 Inch Diameter Shaded Pole Blower by P-Tech USA | TTB-1899 and the filer was from Home Depot a RIDIG VF4000 shop-vac filter.
It looks bigger in the pictures than in real life.
Here is my second cooling fan for my SS. The first one was using a shop-vac to cool the headstock. It worked fine, cheap, filtered air and plenty of air flow. But it sure was noisy and added a little heat to the air flow. I've used the the shop-vac version for several hours straight with no heat buildup.
But... I did not like the noise. So..
I purchased a centrifugal blower from Amazon and a shop-vac filter from Home Depot that works better. No extra heat to the air flow, a lot less noise and compact.
The blower is rated @ 135cfm and very quite. Probably don't need that much air flow but I wanted to ensure it would pull air thru the filter. I used the adapter I had made for the shop-vac version, just a simple hose to hole adapter that uses the top flange on the inspection hole on the backside of the headstock and the weight of the hose/ blower to hold it in place. There are no modifications made to the headstock. There is plenty of room between the blower and the quill feed handle. The blower is from Amazon 3.3 Inch Diameter Shaded Pole Blower by P-Tech USA | TTB-1899 and the filer was from Home Depot a RIDIG VF4000 shop-vac filter.
It looks bigger in the pictures than in real life.