At Mike Chapman's place (Chapman Cylinder Heads) they have a room with
several similar stations. The tops of the tables and the grates are all
sprayed with Rhino Liner. Cuts down on noise and scuffing of the aluminum
castings. There is a holder for several different die grinders with various
heads already mounted at each station. Under the counter the filings are
sucked down a slanting surface, in front of, and away from, the users knees
to a collector tube at the bottom. Everything is sucked out to the back of
the building where he has a device that reminds me of a sawdust burner where
he collects the shavings and bits for re-cycling. Picks up several tons per
year. With the fan at the rear of the building the noise is minimal as
well. Of course the four CNC machines feed into the same spot too. The
place is extremely clean, floors and counter tops as well and you feel like
the heads they process through there are going to be as debris free as is
possible. You can see why their product is so good.
Wes
on 3/27/01 12:20 AM, Keith Turk at kturk@ala.net wrote:
> One of the neat pieces I saw at Paul Vanderley's place was a Cool down draft
> head porting table....
>
> Picture and open grate with a squirel cage fan below it basically the whole
> deal flows air and sucks the metal shaving's away...Looked like it could be
> used as a Welding and grinding table as well
>
> I didn't have my Digital camera with me or I would have gotten a Picture....
> but I think I can describe it..... the Grate was about 1 1/2' X 3 feet and
> below it was a squarish Funnel down to the squirel fan mounted about 2'
> below it.... The whole set up was on a bench top and was flush so you could
> cover it with say cardboard and never know it was there.
>
> Most likely a standard sorta piece and I had just never seen one.... neat
> deal....
>
> Keith
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