After years of struggling with the hoop spring thing that holds the plastic bag up and into the Delta 50 760, trying to get it seated right in the groove indentation while the DC tried to get away on its wheels and the octopus connectors and blast gates and add on Y splits came apart, I tried something new by accident. I had the bag top over the hoop and the hoop just barely into the groove and I hit the on button for a second to inflate the bag which was getting in the way in its tangled state and the air pressure popped the whole thing into place. Wow, I don’t know if this will happen every time or not but it sure worked this time. WARNING: Remember there are blades spinning in there and even turning the DC on for a second leaves the blades running, as they take a while to stop spinning. Don’t go putting fingers in the wrong place. At least if you do lose a few they will be in a just emptied collection bag and you won’t have to go rooting around in a ton of sawdust for them. All this is about the internal hoop channel thing, not the external way you can also use, with the big adjustable pipe clamp kinda thing.
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Cool
Great. Glad that worked for you . . . at least once. ;-)
I'm just nervous that sometime in the future I will read a post - "How I learned to change a DC bag using only six fingers"
Spinning fan blades
Ever watch the "MythBusters" segment on decapitation by ceiling fan? ;-)
I had an horrific accident with my dust collector seven weeks ago. Nine broken bones, three plates, and seven pins. Be careful.
Wow
Sorry to hear that, Dan. What happpened?
DC accidents
I got off easy a couple of years ago with my DC and am too ashamed to talk about it. Sounds like you did a lot of damage to yourself. Is there something we can learn from your accident? I sure wish you the best and a full recovery.
It isn't just the big machines that are dangerous. I once was marking the center point of a dowel I was going to put on my lathe. The dowel was lightly clamped and I used a center finder to mark the center point. I have an ice pick with a long sharp point I use for an awl and was pushing the awl with both hands down into the dowel. I was standing in line with the opening of the vise when the awl and the dowel folded, driving the icepick straight toward my belly (a large target). In Japan they have a name for this and it is not a woodworking term either. I managed to stop the thrust just in time.
Take care.
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