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IF I was looking to use it on just a scroll saw.. and fine dust from a sander.. I think the HF unit is too big and bulky plus I'd shoot for something 3 micron... that's just my opinion... in a wood shop where a mask filter is worn and no one else " living in there with you " the HF collector makes sense.. Inside a house you'll want a strict filtration system.. I would look into a Fein or Festool type vac that has a true Hepa filter system if I was to go back to sawing in the house.. Believe the Festool is quieter on the low setting than the Fein is.. My goal is a Festool set up.. But I'm out in the shop.. wanting to move operations upstairs in the loft area where my inventory is stored and where I have finished insulating so heating and cooling would be more practical.. I would move my one of my saws up there, CNC... laser is already set up up there.. sanding and larger equipment would stay downstairs.. I bought the Seyco vac system but it's not getting enough of the dust for me to feel safe moving the saw upstairs yet.. I need a better system.. Ray mentioned above about the cheaper filtration systems being slightly less CFM than the pricey ones.. I think you could buy 4 of them for the price of that one.. that way there would be more filter surface area too, LOL I'll say.. a box fan and a good filter will be more CFM and probably more practical.. You'll be amazed what the box fan and filter will do.. There was a discussion about this some time ago and there was a Youtube video of a study of Box fan vrs. these hanging filtration systems... If I recall the box fan out performed the hanging unit.. One could hang a box fan to suck upwards and tape the filer on the back? A lot cheaper than a $100 unit.. You might search youtube for some information..

I did it for a 6 month contract.. I made sales.. but not enough to cover my fees.. not to mention I was to go once a week to do my own dusting and arranging my display etc... so I lost money on travel fuel and time.. the place was almost an hour drive away too.. so my experience was not good.. Oh forgot to mention.. some items walked off.. Good things to ask is.. do they cover anything for theft or damaged goods... insurance if the place burns down or? who covers the taxes.. Probably more things to ask but that gives you an idea..

Like that filter since it's washable... I may buy one when it's time for a new one.. I do use the higher filtration one made for fine dust that shop vac sells.. I don't remember the microns now.. It's the blue colored one.. I do tap the dust out of it when I can. and sometimes take it outside with the air hose and blow it out too.. I get a lot of dust that gets past my dust separator.. so I'm going to look for a different separator system.

I have the HF dust collector you speak of.. Great for big machines like the planer etc.. But there is no filter.. just the dust bag on top of it.. I cannot remember the micron filtration of the bag but it's not a good one for the fine dust... You can buy other bags for a better filtration but I don't know anything about them.. or if they fit the HF model of collector.. I have the hanging filtration system that is a clone to the WEN.. It really helps a lot... I think it'd work a lot better if I had a smaller shop.. but i have to clean out the filter at least once a week so it's doing something, LOL

Very nice display and great craftsmanship on all of them.. Thank you to all who have served or are serving

I used to buy a lot of obsolete Delta parts from ( I think the name is ) mikestools.com I restored a few old Delta scroll saws that was my fathers that I gave me before he past on.. This place was the only place I could find some of the parts.. They have a parts look-up by model number etc. too.. This was several years ago though.. like 2005 -6 ish.. Not sure if they still have this stuff.. This was before I ever heard of ereplacementparts

I have done "some" but really need to do a deep cleaning and really go through everything.. I'm not sure what you mean by bar coding.. What I do is photograph my tools and their serial numbers.. The purchase values are for the most part are receipts from my purchase of said tools.. I can upload the photos in my book keeping of the receipts and serial numbers.. so.. I think I'd be covered some by just that info being easily accessed. which for most of my woodworking stuff is recorded in my book keeping for my business which is all online.. and easily searched. For instance I can search Bushton MFG and it brings up all my purchases.. or Artcrafters.. brings up all the blades I've bought.. Can search specific categories like office equipment and search when I bought my printer.. serial numbers for that etc.. Without the business book keeping I'm not sure how I'd go about it.. maybe a app or something? I know people do photos and put on a thumb drive or cd disc etc.. I'd consider going one step further and making a icloud or google drive account where this can be stored so if the house burn down you don't loose the thumb drive or cd.. Be an interesting topic to see what others do or think should be done.. I'm far from experienced in this sort of thing, LOL

I'm thinking about getting a new printer as well.. so this topic I will be following.. I'd like to get away from inkjet printers which is what I've had for always, LOL Are there laser printers with the wide format? My current printer can print 11 x 17 papers which is nice for those larger patterns.

Just my opinion... But to me it seems like this would work better with the suction hose on the opposite side of the saws blower tube. Or are you moving the blower tube up and out of the way? It's amazing how much better the Seyco system with only a lower suction collection and having a fan with furnace filter at table height sucking up the dust blown from the saws dust blower.. Plus... no suction noise on top of the table.. Quite frankly, I've found that the dust port provided on the Ex-21 with a shop vac gets more of the dust than the Seyco system does.. But the shop vac is also about 2x louder, LOL..

I should have posted a link to the body filler spreaders.. I use these to spread the glue out evenly on the wax paper or plastic trash bag.. one spread out you just set the piece to be glued to the backer into the glue and then put it on the backer.. https://www.harborfreight.com/4-in-putty-spreaders-20-pc-69564.html

Not sure if you was asking what type of glue or how to apply.. I won't go into glue types as everyone will have their favorite glue, car, boat etc... I use a plastic garbage sack.. but you can use wax paper etc.. Lay the bag / paper out on the workbench.. pour a appropriate amount of your favorite glue and I use a plastic body filler spreader to spread the glue out as evenly as you can.. Dip the back side ( this is important.. make sure you dip the right side you want to glue, I've messed this up more than once and dipped the front side ) into the glue and press it down so it gets glue on it good.. lift it up and stick it onto the backer.. Clamp or put weight on it however works best for your situation. Put the bag out somewhere so it can dry and you can peel off the glue or shake the bag and most the glue will peel off, then you can still use he bag for its normal purpose, lol

That may be the case with my Seyco dust system.. The canister is plastic and yes the fine dust sticks to the sides of the canister.. Maybe I need to look for a glass jar for my canister when I build my system for the Hawk..

They usually run a sale during the holidays ( when I bought mine a couple years ago ).. They also send out coupon codes.. I'll look and keep an eye out for the codes.. I usually just ignore them as I have no intentions of buying anything..

I used to scroll in the house.. I would say if you have a vacuum sucking the majority of dust away.. that is a great way to take care of most of it.. I have a hanging dust filtration system in my shop while it helps quite a lot but I also find it to be not as efficient as my cheap old box fan with a 20" x 20" allergen type furnace filter on the back of it.. I'm able to place it the the side where the blower hose on the scroll saw blows the dust and the fan seems to get a good portion of that dust.. I think maybe the shop is too large and also the placement of the hanging unit is partly to blame for it not being quite as effective.. Don't get me wrong it helps.. but I think being able to put the fan right near the saw or sander would catch it better than letting it go way up to the ceiling and sometimes getting blown around by the filtration system if it happens to get on the front side of that thing.. Can take that furnace filter off the back of the fan and take it outside and tap it on something to clean it out.. I use the same filter for a long time.. every now and then I take the air hose from my compressor and blow it out backwards of coarse and it cleans up almost like new..

Welcome to the village! Denny doesn't have the saws on his site, You just have to contact him to work out the details.. I don't think he stocks the saws.. they are drop shipped.. which I believe is the case for most every seller of them in the USA.. I could be wrong but I think that is how the US sales work.

Looks a lot like my system, and the Vacuum in question is the is a Metro Vac 5000 I believe.. same as my system I have.. also same unit that Seyco uses for their scroll saw dust collection system.. My vac is much quieter than a shop vac.. BUT.. I'm quite doubtful that it's the 62db that seyco advertises it as.. maybe from 10 foot away.. LOL.. I bought the Seyco system back when I ordered parts to rebuild my Ex-21 this summer.. I've put about 30 hours on the saw since the rebuild.. so the vac has that many hours on it too.. and the dust can is about half full.. Think it's about a gallon sized can that come with the Seyco set up.. anyway.. I have a fair amount of dust escape the can and go to the vac bag.. I bought the little blue plastic cyclone last summer and also found one of these( new open box ) metro 5000 vacs on eBay for $30 shipped.. so I snagged it up.. I see them for $50 -100 quite often and from time to time $30 -40 for new open box ones.. lots of used ones on there too.. I'm going to be interested in how much vac power you get with having both upper and lower dust collection ports.. I am only running the lower (Seyco's designed system) collection at the moment on my EX-21. I bought the other parts tp build my own system but have yet found the time or energy to actually do it.. I feel the small vac might be underpowered for both upper and lower ports.. but I could be wrong.. as the dust is fine stuff and probably doesn't take a lot of suction to pick it up.. Don't get me wrong.. it's fairly powerful with a single port.. just not sure it'd be up to the task for two ports.. maybe with the right hose size and port openings.. the port with the Seyco nozzle its a oval shape and maybe if it were restricted some it's work well with two ports.. I really wish I had gone with my original plan to hook up a system like Rolfs and buy a Festool.. the price of the Festool isn't cheap but neither is having a system for each saw.. since I use 4 different saws.. Believe the Festool on the low setting is much quieter than these little Metro Vacs.. https://www.ebay.com/itm/METRO-VAC-N-GO-VM4B500-Portable-Vacuum-Cleaner-500W-Motor-4-5A/201713240295?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649 Edit to add: I should also state that the Seyco system does get about 98-99% of any dust that falls below the table.. however it get's 0% from above the table.. and there is still a fair amount of dust still landing in my lap from spinning the wood and nocking it off the top onto my lap.. LOL.. I can see that a dust collection above the table is important.. You wouldn't think there would be that much but I bet 30% of cutting dust is on top and 70% goes below.. so that is still a lot of dust escaping into the air, lap and wherever, LOL

I suck at math.. but I come up with $0.33 per pattern.. When I bought my CD I figured I paid $0.18 per pattern.. I tried to talk Scott into putting together a "set" at a discounted price of Harvey's patterns.. Adds up to a large amount of money when you want a complete set.. but you pay full price.. Not expecting to pay pocket change per design.. but... if you want 400 of the designs at $3 each.. that's more than a chunk of pocket change, especially when you can buy a whole CD set like this at $80.. I've invested over $300 for the 113 puzzle designs I've purchased from Scott.. so your math is definitely off.. not saying mine is right either but $300 for 113 puzzles vrs $145 for 438 is a big difference

It's from the Woodimals set, I couldn't tell you what book it's in because I bought the complete CD set.. I'm not sure if the Scrollsawer website store still offers these individual or not.. I bought the complete set of 450+ puzzle pattern CD set on sale a few years back during their holiday sale for like $80.. You might find the pattern by searching Woodimal patterns.The number for the specific pattern is Mermaid_ MD222D Edit: This is where I got my pattern, I don't see individual patterns anymore.. only cd's now it looks like. If you're into puzzles.. the CD is well worth the money.. even at $145 for the complete set. https://www.foxchapelpublishing.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=woodimal

Had a request to make a early style ford bronco.. cut from Cherry with a #3 Pegas MG blade and veining done with a 2/0 FD spiral blade.. Cut with the BM-226 Hawk

I would think if your only issue with the Excelsior is the table size... making a table could be done a lot cheaper than buying one or even buying a new saw.. Also paying for a Pegas table is a cheaper option than the new saw too.. I like the table tilt mechanism on the Excelsior way better than the Seyco's system. Also don't care for the Seyco table top being than magnetic thing on it.. But that is just me.. But that said some people just want a new toy.. I understand that.. I didn't need a new Hawk a couple years ago when I ordered a new one.. as I had two very nice ones already.. Most thought I should cancel out my order on it as they was having issues with a machine to make the Hawk and it was back ordered for 4 months.. I didn't care I didn't need it and I was willing to wait it out for the saw I had my heart set on buying.. I love the saw and glad I bought it and waited to take delivery of it.

Well the issue isn't bearwood prices.. Its Pegas prices, I believe Pegas sets the price and the dealers have to sell at that price per the contract rules.. Shipping cost may differ from one seller to another.. or dealers may put a cut on their portion of the profit to pass the savings onto the buyer.. But at the end of the day Pegas set the price.. They are a bit of an upgrade from the King and Excelsior saws.. Bigger bearing in the pivot arm, blade clamps, and other upgrades to areas that was weak points that was issues with the tried and true Excalibur type saws.. So yes.. I would think a better made saw would be a bit more money. Not saying a Excelsior isn't a good saw.. just saying that Pegas is a upgrade to an already good saw.. and the price would / should reflect that.. I would think..

Didn't think about you being in Canada, that's too bad.. Isn't BearWoods in Canada? for some reason I thought they was in Canada.. Probably still not any cheaper, just a thought.. Honestly these saws have the table just bolted to the frame.. seems like it'd be quite easy to make a larger one.. Not sure how strong plexiglass or some acrylic would be.. I sometimes wish my table was clear so I could see to put the blade in the lower clamp a little better.. LOL.. Though I'm sure it'd be scratched so much after a few days you still wouldn't see it, LOL Anyway i do recall the table being around $130ish US and they aren't all that light to ship..

Pegas sells a table upgrade that will bolt right up to your saw provided you have the 21" model.. The table is the same size as the Seyco but it has no vacuum fitting or holes.. and it is coated with a tough epoxy coating.. both slick surface and very durable..

Glad to hear he is okay and just busy..

Thanks Denny, I forget there is such a thing as denatured alcohol.. I may try this.. I think it would dry much faster and maybe less smell than the Danish oil that I currently use.. Harvey is probably busy with custom orders.. I know I'm waiting on 6 new custom designs.. and I've ordered several the last few months.. I have more to order now again as well but I'm trying to not overload the system, LOL