Scrappile

I scrolled for around two hours last evening with the valve open, no bucket collapse and every thing else seemed to work fine.. This is with the DustStopper on. Today I will put the DustDeputy back on and see what happens..

Holy cow they are all beautiful!! The sea shells, is that Spirals by Steve methods. I have followed him for some time, have all his info and built his table saw jig... Just watching and looking for the time I can afford a vacuum pump for the jig.... If that is where you got the info for those I may be messaging you for advice.... That Mustang and the steer scull ,,,,,,, wow,,, super wow! Of course the sea shells..... wow, wow..

I think it is perfect for you great scrolling and the coloring.... Really nice.

Yes, I did that a few day ago,,,, Not much in it.

Okay, BUT, if the bucket is in side a bucket,,,,, how do you know it is not collapsing....? My real fear is not the bucket collapsing, but what it may or may not be doing to my dust extractor (vacuum). I do not know.

Well the bucket will start collapsing. But I really thought with this valve open, I would loose my dust collecting, but does not appear to be the case...

Ya,, that be it!!

I was in a Ranch and Home store (I love Ranch and Home but it is local) looking for something I could not find, they let me down, but I did for kicks buy a 3/4" PVC valve and a "T" for less than $3. I hooked it inline with my dust collection and the results were a little surprising to me. With it almost wide open the bucket so far is not collapsing. But more surprising, the air noise is no louder that I can notice, and the suction at the scroll saw does not seem to be reduced any, that I can tell... Not sure why I added that little section of PVC pipe coming out of the valve..... it must be serving some purpose......

Oh, it looks fuzzy. I thought that was just me... everything is fuzzy to me!!

Awesome job!!!

Does look good. I paid about that much and mine I have to heat with a torch! I have to experiment with it every time I use it to get the right temp. I finally, one day, branded a piece of veneer about 10 times and then cut the veneer nicely on pieces. I epoxy the branded veneer on to the project some where.

Beautiful project, Ray.... Thank for taking us along for the build.

BEAUTIFUL!!

Amazing pictures and amazing scrolling...

Welcome. Glad you are moving into the neighborhood.

I would not go to so much effort to do that of a celebrity but I love the concept and you did an amazing job with it. I would love to have patterns like that for portraits of family or my dogs. It is really neat.

Well done.

I really started enjoying and improving my scrolling after someone one here gave me this advice.... so simple.... "relax, drop your shoulders and breath normal." It worked for me... Thank you, whomever wrote that several years ago.

I'm prepared also, I read, I think on here, so it has to be true, that alcohol kills the virus, so I picked up a bottle of Jameson at the store today. At least if I get the virus,,,, I may not care.

Welcome to the Village.

Really a nice job, Denny.

I have a Hegner and a Seyco, use to have an Excalibur. The Hegner is by far my favorite saw,,,, but like Kevin stated many like and many don't like therefore I do not recommend them. I would suggest before investing in one, if possible test run one. Even that is not full proof, because it took me a while to get use to mine. I also agree that I would, unless you can find a good used Excalibur, I think I would feel more comfortable with Pegas or Seyco. Well for that matter, I have read pretty good comments about the King saw.

She will have great dreams with that. Very well done.

Okay after a while the other bucket I setup with the Dust Deputy started collapsing. So I switch and put the HD DustStopper on the bucket and scrolled the rest of the night wit no collapse problem. This tell me the Dust Deputy creates a lot more vacuum in the bucket than the HD DustStopper. The Dust Deputy also separates out a lot more dust than the DustStopper does. As far a keeping debris and dust from going to the vac, the Dust Deputy, wins hands down as far as I am concerned, but the DustStopper does a fair job which is a lot better than none. In the near future, because I am having fun experimenting with this, I will buy some PVC part and put in a "release" valve and see what happens. What I think will happen is with the release valve in place, I will reduce the vacuum created in the Dust Deputy and reduce the amount of dust/debris it separates.. It will also probably increase the air noise of the setup which I do not want. With the Dust Deputy a second benefit I noticed was it was less noisy than the Dust Stopper set up. No meter test or any thing scientific, just what I thought I was or ah, wasn't hearing. This means it will work no better than the DustStopper and all my fun will be done for not!! P.S. Just to wanted to state also, I am using a Fein Dust Extractor, not a shop vac. It is made to be hooked up to tools to extract the dust and run with the tool. I use my shop vac for vacuum the shop floor. The Fein is pretty much dedicated to my scroll saw and my belt/random orbit sander when I use them.

Well, this morning I found another bucked, and decided to try using it. I mounted my Dust Deputy on a new lid that goes with that bucket. The bucked is a little shorter than the bigger paint bucket but made of the same thickness material. So far it is holding up, it it starts collapsing I may try what you say or go back to the HD setup I had.