6 Sep
2009
6 Sep
'09
10:30 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Ditto. I hate Dysons with a passion - the cylone bit's somewhat gimmicky, plus
they use a lot of plastic which is prone to wear / breaking (and their spares
outfit only sells larger components at great expense, even if the bit you
actually need might be tiny)
Right now,
cyclone dust collectors are all the rage.
...
That's been the rage for a few years with consumer upright vacs,
particularly with the Dysons. The problem of course is that the
final filter is usually fairly expensive and slowly clogs during
operation. I've had a couple of the cyclonic ones and went back to a
double-layer disposable bag. I figure it runs about the same amount
of money for the same performance and I get like-new performance
every time I dump the bag.
That's my conclusion, too.
And a 1x2 isn't 1" x 2". It's been
that way forever. The plywood
I've purchased over the last 3 decades have all called out the actual
finished sanded thickness.
Yep. Except in our house :-) We've got some space upstairs that's part closet,
part open, and I wanted to make it all into closet area - but the wood they
originally used was planed, but still a genuine 2x4" (rather than the usual
2x4" dimensional stuff that's around 3-1/2 x 1-1/2"). The old lady who used
to
own the place built furniture for a living and had contacts at the local
sawmill, so I suspect that's why it's different (she built the house, too).
Took me a while to find something that I could use and match with the existing
work.
The quality of the veneers used in modern plywood
bothers me more
than a 1/32" thickness variation. The mills don't even have the
equipment to handle big peeler logs anymore--they'll even take 5 and
6 inch logs as veneer. It ain't what it used to be.
There's a lot of laminate stuff around these days - relatively small bits of
wood laminated to make larger sections. That's been quite common for things
like window frames for a while, but it's starting to appear for furniture, bed
frames etc. now too, presumably because they can use more material which would
once have just been dumped.
Laminates make me a bit nervous, but I'm told that in some cases it's stronger
than just using a solid section of wood...
cheers
Jules