Dedicated to promoting woodturning in Southern Utah through educational demos, classes & fellowship between members. "Learning Through Turning"
Our Club Meetings are both in person and on Zoom the 2nd Saturday of each month at 9 am. In person is at Cedar City High School (703 W 600 S Cedar City, UT 84720) in the woodshop classroom (North Side of Building, use the back door by the large dust collector). The link to the Zoom meeting will be emailed to members prior to meeting. Visit our website at https://www.southernutahwoodturners.com. Email us at suwtclub@gmail.com
Officers & Contacts
Special Notices
We are making the application for membership to Southern Utah Woodturners available on our website as well as including with the newsletter mailing as a separate attachment. Please mail form, with dues check ($30) for 2022, to Glenn Pearson at the address on the application so he may update our records for the membership roster.
There will be no July 2022 Club Meeting.
Meeting Notes
It is with sadness that we announce that Jack Twelves passed away. Our condolences to his family. We are glad for the times we were able to have him at our club functions.
This month we had not one but three demonstrations going on at the same time! Bill, Will, and Ken showed and explained their turning processes on platters.
In this month's Tips and Tricks below, Leon discusses Vacuum Hoods.
Demonstrations
Members of the club are encouraged to submit photos and a description of the species and design of their work. Please submit these to Aaron Bryan at woodturnergeek@gmail.com no later than the 20th of each month.
Show and Tell
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Tips and Tricks: Vacuum Hood
By Leon Olson
When I was working at Medtronic and had to work with toxic solvents, I used a vacuum hood. It is a work bench with a hood over it and a window across the front that you could raise so your hands can work inside the hood. There is a powerful vacuum system that pulls air into the hood from behind you and vents the air up to the roof of the building. The result is that you breathe no toxic fumes.
With woodturning, it is less about toxic fumes and more about breathing in harmful dust. One day while watching a YouTube woodturning video, I saw a vacuum hood built for a wood lathe. It was a plastic fifty-five-gallon drum that had been modified. In Richard Raffin’s DVDs that I have, he has a vacuum hose behind his lathe. If you go onto YouTube and call up Richard Raffin’s current videos you will see an adjustable box, (photo below), that he moves near his turnings that is connected to his vacuum system.
That box acts like a vacuum hood. It is dramatically more effective than a vacuum hose near his turnings. The box focuses where the air comes from that is pulled into his vacuum system. Currently, he is using a Vicmarc 150 lathe which sits on a work bench. The box is on the bench. You can see the dust as he sands a turning being pulled away horizontally. All the dust in the screen shot on the right is being pulled into the vacuum. He is sanding on the top front so the dust is going toward him and down and then back into the vacuum. This would be very effective if it was vented either outside or into a filter that captures very fine dust. It also requires more than a Shop Vac to pull enough air.
Some of us have lathes that sit on a bench, others have free standing lathes. I have a free-standing lathe so I made a platform/shelf that is attached to the back of my lathe. I made an adjustable box that sits on the shelf and is connected to my vacuum system. It literally pulls the dust off the sandpaper as I am sanding. I can move the box around and change the opening to match what I am turning. The adjustable box works so well that I will seldom need my half mask for turning.
I have a vacuum system with filters inside my garage so that the warm air stays in my garage. My garage is about 8,000 cubic feet. My vacuum system is rated at 1,500 cubic feet per minute. It would take a little over five minutes to pull all the heated air out if I vented the air out of my garage. Replacement air from outside would be cold during the winter and hot during the summer.
If you have questions on this month's Tips & Tricks, email Leon Olson at leonolson@aol.com.
Items for Sale by Members
Please submit items for sale to Aaron Bryan (woodturnergeek@gmail.com) before the 20th of the month to be included in the newsletter. If you have sold an item listed in the newsletter, please notify Aaron so he can remove it.
