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I think I found mine today. It definately is emptying the Dust Collector and cleaning the filter.
I guess it might not be so bad if I would have done it at a half filled bag.

Sanding

Finding stuff I know that is in here somewhere.
Bill

Cleaning up, I can never find things after.

Fred

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Chris,
Mine's the same as yours. I never seem to get around to emptying the dust collector bag till it's nearly full. Which reminds me...

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One does not simply, own enough guitars!

Cleaning up spilled CA.

But it hasn't happened since I started putting open bottles in a small but heavy crock.

Pat

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Cleaning up in general.

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I'm with you Chris. Overfilled dust collectors, or dealing with dust in general. They all back up sooner or later. I've got a smallish single bag on the table saw that I regularily fill up over the top of the bag, and the big shop cyclone backs up up occasionally.. It's about 16 ft tall and empties into a dumpster so you can imagine how much can get backed up into the cyclone body before anyone inside notices..

Gotta wear your respirator, I overdosed on cedar dust from an overfilled bag a couple years ago. Ended up with pnemonia.

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Dust cleaning, again. Shovelling out the Fadal is the worst: when we're running necks it can be putting out four barrels of chips a day! The dust collector would fill up way too quickly, so it only sucks out the airborne dust rather than all the chips. I can't wait until I move to a shop where I can run my DC directly into a dumpster (or a furnace!)

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Anything to do with accounting...

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Cleaning up sawdust and wood chips.

Balancing the checkbook.

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Like Chris the dust collector has been a real pain. Last year I installed a cyclone that had a 30 gal can under it. Filled up way to fast so I modified it to take a 65 gal garbage tote.
It's not as good as an outdoor hopper but eliminated haviing to empty the can. Just remove the wooden lid I made and replace with an empty tote. There are 2 large wheels on the Tote so we can wheel it outside and it gets emptied on trash day.

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Just about everything that isn't admiring the finished product.

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Working on the shop. I've still got more shelves to build, about 28 drawers to make and a bunch of other things that could be improved. My shop time is limited and I'd just rather work on guitars or other projects.

I always try to empty the dust collector bin before it gets full. Mine gets dumped on the compost heap behind the shop so not to big a deal.

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Steve Smith
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Mine sits in the corner and I have to move stuff out of the way so it tends to add to the problem. One day I'll move it out side the shop into the adjacent shed and pipe the collection system in. One Day.

Pour filling with CA, man those fumes burn the eyes. Ill try a differnt approch next time.
Terry...

Thicknessing plates by hand with planes ,cabinet scrapers and sanding blocks.A few years back built myself a 18 inch thickness sander,one man power feed,one horse motor. You have to take light cuts,but it works like a dream,and life building guitars is worthwhile again.

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It varies depending what process I'm currently doing, until I make time to buy proper tools rather than bodge around, though at the moment it's binding, as I can't get the quality fit I expect (build 2 no jigs) and plate thicknessing. Though it could of been setting up my planes for the 1st time that too ages and they still aren't 100% though they are 100% better than they were!

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I learn more from my mistakes than my successes

You know this is suppose to be an enjoyable hobby.

We ich but we enjoy!

I always wait until a windy day to empty the dust collector, and stand upwind - at this time of year, its usually the 4pm thunderstorm on the way. By the time I notice out the window, i have to drop what I'm doing and then I've got about 10-15 minutes of good stiff wind before the rain starts. That's usually enough, but you NEVER want to get caught in the rain in the middle of emptying the DC.

And sanding in the cutaways - hate that.

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Finishing - I would rather build ten than finish one.

Paul

Sanding & Scraping.

I'll empty all of y'alls dust collectors all day long if you just sand and scrape for me.

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Blain

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"89.67% of all statistics are made up on the spot."

This may seem kind of off topic but I'll bring it home. I used to race bicycles on the road. I've quit because it takes roughly an 1:30 of riding per day plus the 30 min of screwing around getting ready and cleaning up 5 to 6 days a week to have any chance of doing o.k. in any given race. However, I did do that for a few years. Training sucked. To be any good you had to train harder than you raced. It was terrible and we did it anyway.

On race day, if you were training right and had a little bit of luck go your way, you might achieve a personal best or you might just find yourself going around that last corner with no one in front of you and although you can hear them grunting in pain behind you, no one has the strength to go around and you get that win!

I don't know anyone who loves sanding, or re-sawing or whatever. Hand planing is sometimes nice until you uncover a curl in the grain that you don't notice until it tears out rendering the board useless because it will be too thin once you get past the tear out. Being boys, we all love our dangerous machines but is there anyone here who isn't just a little worried in the back of their mind that they're going to ruin a piece of expensive lumber each time they do an operation.

Maybe it's different for the pros out there, but I'd bet that for most of us,our favorite part is hearing and seeing our finished product and the steps before that are just 'paying dues' to get to that point.

Just like in racing, achieving a win somehow made the 4000 miles/year of training 'enjoyable', admiring your finished product makes all the 'suffering' ( ) in the shop enjoyable.

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