Between 485 & 705 SQ/FT 3rd time's a charm with a 3 car workshop

[loganb]

That is a nice price. I would have jumped on that too. All the "decent" one's that I have seen have been 1k+ all the way to 3k+ for the Powematics, Laguna's and such.

Yeah there are a couple dual drum Powermatic's in Des Moines but they're way more machine then I need or have room for....you on the other hand have lots of space lol!

I don't know that there is much (any?) difference between the Jet/Performax/Laguna/Supermax style open sided units like this. For the same size the parts all seem to be interchangeable. For doing longer boards definitely benefits from a nice infeed and outfeed. If I had a space like yours I might think hard about incorporating it if possible into your workbench with the radial arm and be able to use that existing work surface as your infeed/outfeed

 

[Boostingaz]

Yeah there are a couple dual drum Powermatic's in Des Moines but they're way more machine then I need or have room for....you on the other hand have lots of space lol!

I don't know that there is much (any?) difference between the Jet/Performax/Laguna/Supermax style open sided units like this. For the same size the parts all seem to be interchangeable. For doing longer boards definitely benefits from a nice infeed and outfeed. If I had a space like yours I might think hard about incorporating it if possible into your workbench with the radial arm and be able to use that existing work surface as your infeed/outfeed

Man you are really good at somehow spending my money. I'll just PM you my CC number and we can cut out the middle man of me here

 

[Matias]

The project for holding the wife´s drawings turned out well! And I had to google the dowel maker to see it in action on youtube. Again a thing I didn´t know existed or something I might want in the future Also, making projects like this probably make your life a little bit easier, just maybe a little less convincing to do when you need new equipment for the shop. Hmm, starting to think of it, the new machine arrived just when the wife´s project was finished?

I didn´t know anything about farming, before I wathced Clarkson´s Farm. While I still don´t know much about farming, I do understand a lot more about how things are done, and also how difficult it is to make a living, and how much rain affects everything when farming. I do understand the series is not maybe 100% factual, and that for Jeremy, it´s more easy to do all this without so much financial stress, but the struggle is real. Thanks for the insight, it was nice to see actual work

That infinitygrid seems like a nice solution for the cabinet drawers. I didn´t do a lot of those arrangement prints as I had so many different kinds and brands, and just when you get everything in order, you buy something new. That universal approcal seems good. I haven´t painted anything I printed, but your shelf brackets made me think that it´s not that impossible to do, thanks!

 

[loganb]

The project for holding the wife´s drawings turned out well! And I had to google the dowel maker to see it in action on youtube. Again a thing I didn´t know existed or something I might want in the future Also, making projects like this probably make your life a little bit easier, just maybe a little less convincing to do when you need new equipment for the shop. Hmm, starting to think of it, the new machine arrived just when the wife´s project was finished?

Thanks for stopping by on your "catch up tour" of GJ Matias! She's happy with the plan holder...her boss has officially classified me as "Extra" because it's made from sapele with matching dowels.....I said I'm happy to make more for the rest of her coworkers for a marginal price but haven't been taken up on it.

The new machine (and most of mine) are more of a "beg forgiveness over asking permission"...in this case I'm fortunate to have an accommodating wife but probably going to have to help "justify" some of my garage items with some customized "Thank you" gifts for some of my wife's customers. Thinking some smaller coasters or smaller cutting boards

I didn´t know anything about farming, before I watched Clarkson´s Farm. While I still don´t know much about farming, I do understand a lot more about how things are done, and also how difficult it is to make a living, and how much rain affects everything when farming. I do understand the series is not maybe 100% factual, and that for Jeremy, it´s more easy to do all this without so much financial stress, but the struggle is real. Thanks for the insight, it was nice to see actual work

Dad often comments when someone asks what he does for a living is "professional weather gambler" which always gets considerable odd looks! I haven't watched Clarkson's series (still love his Top Gear stuff), but it's fascinating to me having grown up on what we considered a "typical" midwest farm to see how different farming operations are across the US let alone the world. We are a pretty "simple" operation with just soybeans and corn compared to some of the fruit or vegetable or food crop grain growers. We have 1 planting season (April to late May generally) and 1 harvest season (approx Aug to October), there are operations in the US who are planting different crops 8 or 9 months out of the year which to them is normal...to us is crazy

That infinity grid seems like a nice solution for the cabinet drawers. I didn´t do a lot of those arrangement prints as I had so many different kinds and brands, and just when you get everything in order, you buy something new. That universal approach seems good. I haven´t painted anything I printed, but your shelf brackets made me think that it´s not that impossible to do, thanks!

I'm liking the grid setup so far! I'm about to see how it goes migrating it out of the garage and to a couple drawers in the kitchen (starting with the "junk drawer") and see how it goes....another beg forgiveness project!

 

[loganb]

Alright in the Danger Zone where it may be functional and I'm prone to wander off and start something new before it's finished....see if I can avoid going astray here....

I was wondering how you would finish these up and hide some of the layers. I'll have to check this paint out.

Thanks for joining in and spending some time Nathan! Here are a couple of closer detail shots of what they look like after a couple of light coats with that texture paint



This was printed with fairly "fat" layer lines at .3mm (.6 nozzle), so if I wanted to make these easier to hide changing layer thickness is easy, just costs print time



In this image print lines are horizontal and on steep angle walls so blend well

Here is where it's most noticeable as that curve/surface gets close to horizontal



I haven't played with the variable layer height tool in the slicer yet, may try it a bit when I go to print these again.

Texture is obvious to the touch, but I don't think it's very obvious to the eye. Looks a bit like a rough/orange peeled matte/flat finish but when you touch it kinda reminds me of a 300 or 400 grit sandpaper. For what they're doing I think it works.

Ended up putting backets tight to the marker board sides



Seeing some old insect damage here on the part of it closest to the camera, I cut the worst out but left some that was more structurally sound



Would've liked to have spaced them out farther...but the board wasn't long enough

And starting to put some "stuff" on it



Most of this was stuff I got from my grandparents house over the last year or two as we(mostly my parents) were working on emptying it for a sale. Grandpa had a collection of toy tractors picked up at various sales as well as generally bought a toy of each tractor/piece of equipment he bought. There was plenty of them to go around to the various kids/grandkids though so anyone who wanted them had choice so I've got both some "shelf queens" and some "users" for when my kids get a bit older. The 3 yr old does not need a 5 lb metal toy tractor right now with as often as he's throwing lighter items! The wooden animals were items from some of their international travels, primarily Africa though somewhere are a few things from Europe and their 1 trip to China.

Still need to put screws up thru the bracket into the slab, and then go back and touchup screw heads with blacker marker or paint pen.

This shelf is a shade under 7' long and around 8 to 9" deep, I think another using (3) brackets will get made to go on the opposite wall. I'll have to buy that slab so will try and go bigger on it...probably 12" deep or so and 8' long

 

[OutlawDrifter]

I like the end result!

 

[zanyad]

Looks very nice!

 

[loganb]

I like the end result!

Looks very nice!

Thanks Gents! Wife even approved....she doesn't know about the 2nd one coming....though as it's in my office her approval is just helpful and not required .

 

[legenddc]

Quickly found the "auto regulation" feature which slows down feed belt if the current draw on drum head is too high. Definitely want to avoid that as it was leaving a bumpy finish as the belt was slowing down enough it was start/stop instead of smooth motion

Nice score on the drum sander. My dad picked up a 16/32 a year or two ago for a sweet price. Even better price for me since I get to use it for free. We've discovered it's a good idea to send the board through a couple of times before you lower the sander to avoid burning and bumps.

If I had a space like yours I might think hard about incorporating it if possible into your workbench with the radial arm and be able to use that existing work surface as your infeed/outfeed

I would be hesitant about doing this unless you make it easy to pull out from the wall. It's a lot easier to change the belt when you can move around the machine.

 

[loganb]

Probably not a lot happening directly garage related this weekend as the daughter is turning 6 and we've got 2 parties...the friends(classmate) party is now over, immediate family still to go

Did restock on ground beef:



Brisket was on an ok sale (3.88/lb) and we were basically out so had them grind 3 of them so I could vacuum seal and freeze in 2 lb packs for easy usage. Cheaper than your typical ground beef and feel it's better quality...but that's opinion



Took about an hour to pack it all up...not exciting but not hard

This showed up in the neighborhood and warms my nerd, moderate data user work from home heart



New service provider is coming thru and putting in fiber optic, right now we only have a single, copper wire option for high speed and not super impressed with them, so looking forward to this hopefully early in 2025. It'll probably be at least 3 more months based on other areas who got service put in until they're ready to start doing hookups, but super excited that they're getting the vaults put in and runs for the fiber runs in before it freezes.

And speaking of nerd...my brother got a new fiber laser for his side business and had to troll me on one of the first things he made



But he was up for a birthday party and brought along a new coaster...so it works



I sent him back with some maple coaster blanks to play with on the laser and probably a renewed "get on that" urge to finish the mirror upgrade on my laser and get it and the new to me fume extractor running

 

[OutlawDrifter]

It amazes me when my little hamlet town and country house have speed of light fiber already while cities are still working on it!

 

[Boostingaz]

They have been pulling fiber all around us for the past few weeks as well. That same machine but of a yellow variety sat out on the street in front of our house for a few days until they came back to work. I think it's ATT here ?

 

[madison069]

It amazes me when my little hamlet town and country house have speed of light fiber already while cities are still working on it!

Most likely due to being easier to run the fiber cable compare to the high traffic, high number of obstacles in the ground, and high number of regulations with utilities work in the city. I like the clean look of utilities being in the ground, but when something gets damaged it’s a mess to repair.

 

[OutlawDrifter]

Most likely due to being easier to run the fiber cable compare to the high traffic, high number of obstacles in the ground, and high number of regulations with utilities work in the city. I like the clean look of utilities being in the ground, but when something gets damaged it’s a mess to repair.

Well, I did leave out the part where our local telecommunications co-op has its headquarters in the little hamlet. We've had fiber for about 10+ years.

 

[Blackbyrd]

I wish we had fiber! It's starting to show up. It's literally available outside my neighborhood looking at the service map.....

 

[loganb]

Most likely due to being easier to run the fiber cable compare to the high traffic, high number of obstacles in the ground, and high number of regulations with utilities work in the city. I like the clean look of utilities being in the ground, but when something gets damaged it’s a mess to repair.

Well, I did leave out the part where our local telecommunications co-op has its headquarters in the little hamlet. We've had fiber for about 10+ years.

Here it's a mix of both

USDA Rural Development funding has helped put in a huge amount of high speed internet in rural areas that only had old copper phone service, these are areas that generally don't have a cable TV provider. I think it was about 1997 when the last of my rural classmates got off the "party line" phone system and each house in the area had a dedicated line/number so no more having to wait till the neighbor is done talking to use the phone. We had dial up at the house and "good" speed was 30kb/s, we tried the satellite based stuff for awhile and the tech back then had so much lag it made the user experience worse then a slow but "lower ping" dialup

The mapdot I grew up outside of got fiber in around 2007 or 2008 I think and it's full fiber into the home in both town and outlying areas. They now cover a probably 30 or 40 mile service area but it's great speed, huge improvement in reliability and has helped drive economic activity. There are several smaller companies that have relocated/started up in the area that never could have without reliable internet and I've got some classmates from high school who returned back to the area with remote work jobs who never could've done that with the old service of the past.

In today's technology, in terms of cost per user it'd probably be cheaper for them to stick to running fiber "in town" or where a certain density of houses per mile or some other standard could be reached and use Starlink satellite internet for the more rural areas so they're not running 1+ mile of fiber for a single hookup. Either way it's been a big improvement.

For my neighborhood, the underground utilities are definitely slowing things up. Ours was transitioned from corn field to house field in about 2005 and fiber for residential out here was still pretty new and they were going to run cable, so fiber wasn't run but all utilities are underground. Most all the developments after about 2015 or so seem to have had fiber run to start and the areas of town where utilities aren't buried and they can run new fiber faster(as well as hook up more customers per block/per mile) are already hooked up and in use.

But good things come to those who wait or something like that, so my current 500 down/50 up for $110 a month internet only will go to 500 down/500 up for $79 a month...now to just be a bit more patient and wait a couple more months likely. Maybe a delayed Christmas present?

 

[gearhead1960]

I feel your envy for real high speed internet. On the east coast, our area was one of the 1st to have Verizon FIOS which is a fiber to the house connection for almost 20 years. It's been nice and it brings trepidation to my mind when I look to relocate for retirement as we are definitely spoiled. I worry that wherever we end up, the service won't stack up.....

On another side, we live in N. VA where we have the highest concentration of data centers in the world, bar none. I see ditch witches, etc. everyday trying to connect all the centers. I myself work for a company that provides services to the local power company that services these data centers. The data centers in this area pull more power than the entire tidewater region of VA which is about a third of the state geographically along with 1/2 the population One of the things we do is map the underground utilities and it's nothing to see 10-20 fiber runs within some of the main routes!

 

[loganb]

Nice score on the drum sander. My dad picked up a 16/32 a year or two ago for a sweet price. Even better price for me since I get to use it for free. We've discovered it's a good idea to send the board through a couple of times before you lower the sander to avoid burning and bumps.

Glad it's not just mine that is taking off material on a 2nd (or 3rd pass) without changing heights! I was playing a bit and definitely noticed an improvement in surface finish when running it thru a 2nd time without adjusting thickness

I would be hesitant about doing this unless you make it easy to pull out from the wall. It's a lot easier to change the belt when you can move around the machine.

Agree and thanks for clarifying! Easy to slide in/slide out to service/swap paper or adjust tracking as required is a big help. I haven't swapped paper yet on this one but I've played with it and it seems pretty straight forward.

I'll add to the list of spending requirements for @Boostingaz

If you want to set it up to use an existing infeed/outfeed like on your radial, make sure the unit you get the drum head moves up/down and the conveyor height is stationary. A lot of them have a fixed drum head with a conveyor that moves up or down, so that makes using a fixed infeed much harder, especially if you're doing lots of parts with varying heights

I feel your envy for real high speed internet. On the east coast, our area was one of the 1st to have Verizon FIOS which is a fiber to the house connection for almost 20 years. It's been nice and it brings trepidation to my mind when I look to relocate for retirement as we are definitely spoiled. I worry that wherever we end up, the service won't stack up.....

Yeah, I miss the AT&T fiber to the home we had in Chicago for sure! In good news...Starlink service is pretty impressive now and cost is inline with a lot of landline based services. I've got probably a dozen coworkers on working remote on my team who are using Starlink as it's their best option and they've often got better speeds when running speedtests then I do. Most of them have had it for a couple years so far and I'm only aware of (1) hardware failure which was actually a cable/connection failure but was handled promptly.

On another side, we live in N. VA where we have the highest concentration of data centers in the world, bar none. I see ditch witches, etc. everyday trying to connect all the centers. I myself work for a company that provides services to the local power company that services these data centers. The data centers in this area pull more power than the entire tidewater region of VA which is about a third of the state geographically along with 1/2 the population One of the things we do is map the underground utilities and it's nothing to see 10-20 fiber runs within some of the main routes!

The power usage is crazy! We've now got multiple centers for both Google and Facebook in the metro area along with some smaller players and their arrival has basically single handily ruined the power company demand/forecasts for the next 20 years. It's preventing them from being able to turn off older generation plants as the demand from the data centers is just too high so it's then causing issues with their green/renewable pledges and forcing acceleration of new generation stations

I don't envy people working on mapping underground utilities....it's at least got lots of job security! My favorite picture of the shear volume of stuff underground came from Instagram on a guy in NYC doing excavation in some of the "challenging" scenarios...example below

 

[loganb]

Side quest time....well maybe not side quest....but small project/experiment

The kids are 6 and 3 now....so bath night is loud. And the typical bathroom with hard surfaces everywhere makes any noise get magnified and seems like their higher pitch exclamations of simultaneous joy and disdain are worse. If you know you know

I grew up on a hog farm, and one of the less commonly known traits of the producers of prime pork is their ability to create ridiculous amounts of noise....like deafening double up ear plugs under muff noise at feeding time. So whether I'm loosing hearing already, am used to it or just don't care....the bath time noise doesn't bother me but it can get too much for Momma....so going to try something to maybe help out

I've got (5) pieces of Rockwool Safe N Sound leftover from my dust collector filter plenum build...so a basic 2x4 frame to hold the 15 x 47" or so pieces:



Find some neutral-ish basic fabric that isn't very dense at the local Hobby Lobby and dust off the Milwaukee M12 stapler which is a lesser used tool but super handy when sinking staples into softer material. Don't try and use it on old 2x framing lumber....it doesn't have the power for that



Toss some D-ring hangers and wire across the back like a picture frame. I dislike getting stabbed by the individual strands so always try and heat shrink the tail up




And find 2 studs to hang it off



Now I'm really clueless if this is going to work, and if it does I'm expecting I need more to make a significant improvement. I've got places for 3 or 4 of these 4' wide ones laid out and (2) that are 2' long but want to see if this makes any difference.

 

[OutlawDrifter]

Should help mitigate it some. Same principal my buddy uses in his recording studio room. Definitely kills the hard surface echos.

 

[loganb]

Should help mitigate it some. Same principal my buddy uses in his recording studio room. Definitely kills the hard surface echos.

Yup, design is stolen from sound panels for home theater etc. I will have to put a couple more in I think on other walls to really find out if it works or not, but it shouldn't make it worse. Hopefully it doesn't make the kids louder lol

 

[madison069]

Glad it's not just mine that is taking off material on a 2nd (or 3rd pass) without changing heights! I was playing a bit and definitely noticed an improvement in surface finish when running it thru a 2nd time without adjusting thickness



Agree and thanks for clarifying! Easy to slide in/slide out to service/swap paper or adjust tracking as required is a big help. I haven't swapped paper yet on this one but I've played with it and it seems pretty straight forward.

I'll add to the list of spending requirements for @Boostingaz

If you want to set it up to use an existing infeed/outfeed like on your radial, make sure the unit you get the drum head moves up/down and the conveyor height is stationary. A lot of them have a fixed drum head with a conveyor that moves up or down, so that makes using a fixed infeed much harder, especially if you're doing lots of parts with varying heights



Yeah, I miss the AT&T fiber to the home we had in Chicago for sure! In good news...Starlink service is pretty impressive now and cost is inline with a lot of landline based services. I've got probably a dozen coworkers on working remote on my team who are using Starlink as it's their best option and they've often got better speeds when running speedtests then I do. Most of them have had it for a couple years so far and I'm only aware of (1) hardware failure which was actually a cable/connection failure but was handled promptly.




The power usage is crazy! We've now got multiple centers for both Google and Facebook in the metro area along with some smaller players and their arrival has basically single handily ruined the power company demand/forecasts for the next 20 years. It's preventing them from being able to turn off older generation plants as the demand from the data centers is just too high so it's then causing issues with their green/renewable pledges and forcing acceleration of new generation stations

I don't envy people working on mapping underground utilities....it's at least got lots of job security! My favorite picture of the shear volume of stuff underground came from Instagram on a guy in NYC doing excavation in some of the "challenging" scenarios...example below

One of my many hats at work is to mark storm pipes and traffic light for the Municipality when the 811 comes in. Even with the fancy locators, it’s always a gamble to identify the exact location of the utilities. That particular area would have been dug up with a vac truck around here.

 

[loganb]

One of my many hats at work is to mark storm pipes and traffic light for the Municipality when the 811 comes in. Even with the fancy locators, it’s always a gamble to identify the exact location of the utilities. That particular area would have been dug up with a vac truck around here.

I'm seeing more and more vac trucks in the area....it seems like the options are either vac truck or a good excavator operator paired with a couple guys and shovels....I prefer the vac truck route!

Few other little updates...

Halloween had some fairly reasonable weather which was nice....finally saw a giant yard decoration I thought was neat:



Kids got way too much candy:


And wife and I are doing some clean eating food thing so not even supposed to eat the Dad Tax right now....harsh

Picked up a slab for the next office shelf of "things that should be dusted but won't be"


Will straight line rip with the tracksaw the left edge as we're looking at it. Once I do that and get the width of it I'll be able to hit print on the brackets for it

Also working on dust collection....the new drum sander pushed me over the edge on what was a not great connection at the tablesaw:



So that's now changed up to this:




And then horizontally come out of that is a 6" Wye which will feed the tablesaw, then the end of it is intended to be the hookup for the drum sander



Tonight will be printing the first test of a magnetic hose end connector for 6" hose to make the hookup/disconnect of the hose easier for when I have to move them....in theory sounds great....see how it works in practice!

And thanks to the nice progress post by @nicholam77 I finally hit start on the first Gridfinity bins for my kitchen "junk drawers" basically. I didn't realize how much "junk" there was in it....yikes! More to come on that

 

[zanyad]

Tonight will be printing the first test of a magnetic hose end connector for 6" hose to make the hookup/disconnect of the hose easier for when I have to move them....in theory sounds great....see how it works in practice!

I'd be interested in the model, if it proves out! Thanks!

 

[loganb]

I'd be interested in the model, if it proves out! Thanks!

Happy to share! As I'm attempting to be "efficient" which is the fancy term for lazy and use other people's existing designs...starting with this one:

https://makerworld.com/en/models/170970#profileId-189175

I picked up a bunch of various flex hoses from a local sale this summer, so I have some 6" flex hose already, but don't know where it came from but they're generally interchangeable to hopefully it fits! I'm running it in PLA on the A1 overnight as the P1S is having some fits and a new part will be here tomorrow to hopefully put it back together. Yes...they will break lol

So assuming that gets back together I'll run the "Final" versions in PETG on it to give it a bit more resistance to bring rammed into and hit/dropped as things get moved around.

 

[loganb]

So 1st print from last night of the hose end magnetic fitting:





Fit very nicely without adjustments....ok so now to the "other side" of the fitting....not as simple there

The linked project/files on Makerworld includes a nice "thru wall" fitting/manifold port:



So made one of those...then an adapter piece to go from the outside of the tapered cast blast gate to the inside of said wall mount:



Took 1 revision to get the dimensions/fit pretty nice on both pieces

And we get this:



Parts seem well designed, haven't put magnets in yet...so unsure yet how well it holds together...but promising start

 

[Boostingaz]

That's awesome!

 

[OutlawDrifter]

That turned out great!

 

[fouckhest]

Super cool!

 

[loganb]

Bit of overnight progress on the junk drawer:



Man as I look at it here that wonderful contact paper drawer liner that came from a prior owner looks worse and worse

 

[madison069]

Bit of overnight progress on the junk drawer:



Man as I look at it here that wonderful contact paper drawer liner that came from a prior owner looks worse and worse

My first thought was "That wallet spot looks very small compared to the Truck Keys spot, but then again none of us have money to carry being on Garage Journal."

 

[loganb]

My first thought was "That wallet spot looks very small compared to the Truck Keys spot, but then again none of us have money to carry being on Garage Journal."

LOL very true.

But also helped out by in this case it's standing up to make it easier to remove and save a bit of space



5 more containers finish in a couple hours

 

[madison069]

I keep having to resist buying a 3D printer, but all of these projects don't help myself control!! I have several drawers in the computer desk that I would love to organize like you're doing with your junk drawer.

 

[nicholam77]

Dust fitting and junk drawer are lookin' good!

 

[loganb]

Little progress:

Laying out the track to decide how to straight edge the wall side of this shelf slab



Activating the gravity based dust collection equipment as I cut it in 2 passes




And most of the bark removed



I'm going to chop off the split end as it's a bit long with it on and I don't have the energy right now to do a bowtie or some other inlay to hold it together.

Now that it's cut though I should be able to push print on the shelf brackets tonight to have those finish tomorrow. Getting it sanded and finished this weekend is likely overly aggressive....but I can give it a try

 

[jonshonda]

^Very cool! I've always wanted to do a live edge slab project but just haven't found the time or motivation to do so. The main entry way/hallway needs a new light fixture, and I've been dreaming of finding a cool slab with a crotch in it that I can use for a suspended light fixture. The plan is to put some small can lights in it, and maybe even a led strip on the top side pointing at the ceiling for some back up lighting.

That is some pretty serious dust collection you've got there as well. That is something I am lacking but recognize the many reasons dust collection is important...the least of which is keeping stuff clean!

 

[loganb]

Shelf brackets printed. Used PLA again on thise, about 220 grams per bracket, 11-ish hr print time for 3.





Tried the variable layer thickness and it seems to have made some of the low angle flat ish surfaces better. They've got a coat of the texture rattle can paint on them now

 

[loganb]

Magnets showed up for the quick connect 6" port...so triple checked I had polarity right before super gluing these in:



Old faithful Bosch sander was loosing paper more often then not so new pad/backer time. 5 minute test is promising of fixing that problem:


Postman was good to me...thanks to Epstein's in KC. I keep reading about how great Vessel is for screwdrivers so wanted to give it a try with their electric unit. Set of JIS drivers is on the Xmas list


Then it was onto 3d printer "stuff"

The Bambu P1S had an issue on the AMS where there was a broken piece of filament stuck in it which prevented it from running...so disassembly time. I followed this video though it wasn't terribly difficult:

The underside of the beast


And the offending piece of PLA



While I had it all out, went ahead and swapped desiccant out:



Shortly after this picture was taken, the white cylindrical holder might have gotten dropped on the floor cracking open and spilling desiccant everywhere....or maybe that was a dream

Put it back together and now to confirm it's fixed. While at it I also swapped out the push to connect fitting on the backside:



Black is new, gray is original. I'd had some "fail to retract" errors and from reading online swapping that quick connect which lets you go from AMS to single spool(some filaments shouldn't be used in the AMS) solved other's issues. So I had a McMaster order going anyway....so why not. PN I purchased was this:

McMaster-Carr

McMaster-Carr is the complete source for your plant with over 595,000 products. 98% of products ordered ship from stock and deliver same or next day.

www.mcmaster.com

Next up for printing on the P1 after the test print is this 6" x 6" x 2.5" dust collection fitting:



While this case from Printables:

10pc Reamer Case by BM Paridae | Download free STL model | Printables.com

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Is running on the A1. I suspected the magnet holes in the dust collection quick connect might be a tad small so I bought a cheap Amazon set of chucking reamers to help clean up the holes if required. I needed the 10mm (and a pair of pliers) to get the magnets in for one of the fittings, other set dropped in nicely.

 

[jonshonda]

Do you hook up dust collection to the Bosch sander? I hook my Dust Deputy/shop vac up to mine and it seems to really extend the life of the sanding discs from clogging.

 

[loganb]

Do you hook up dust collection to the Bosch sander? I hook my Dust Deputy/shop vac up to mine and it seems to really extend the life of the sanding discs from clogging.

Yes, I've got a shop vac I use it with when doing bigger sanding projects. After I run the slab thru the drum sander I'll hook up the shop vac for the final passes with the Bosch. A partially completed project of a dedicated shop vac with dust deputy and overhead boom arm is on the list of **** I've started but haven't finished lol