Bare feet in a workshop. Jamie, why are you tempting injury like that?Originally Posted by Jamie Buxton
Bare feet in a workshop. Jamie, why are you tempting injury like that?Originally Posted by Jamie Buxton
Doug --Originally Posted by Doug Shepard
As long as there's room for air to circulate in the area, I don't think you'd be putting the wood at risk.
Here's one way to think about it.... The motor gets warm enough that you can't really hold your hand on it. You can touch it for a few seconds, but you don't want to leave your hand there. If you held wood directly against the motor, it would be subject to the same temperature. That is, it will be way below ignition.
Jamie
Frank, several posters have expressed concern about me working in bare feet. I don't get it. What's the issue?Originally Posted by Frank Pellow
Jamie
Leeson makes a good motor, but I'm curious about long term reliability running a motor at FLA all the time.
What's FLA?Originally Posted by martyphee
I think the heat is probably from friction from moving all that air, not just the motor. Its amazing how much heat that kind of thing generates. In pumped water, the same principle can heat water up to the point where it softens plastic pipe (this happens when there isn't enough flow for the water to wick the heat away.)
The concrete slab in houses is often tied into the ground circuit ... in modern slab construction, they put a 20' rod in the foundation horizontally rather than pounding it into the ground. Perhaps that's why the concrete provides such a good source to ground. But I've heard the same thing, and I always wear rubber soles in my shop.
Doug---Oneida recommends 2" of clearance from the top of the moter to the ceiling, not so much to protect the ceiling, but to provide adequate ventilation for the motor's fan so that the motor won't overheat.
In one of the recent Clearvue threads, they talk about the option of placing the blower unit off to the side of the cylone rather than on top, thus saving some headroom. I'll see if I can find the link.
Dan
Eternity is an awfully long time, especially toward the end.
-Woody Allen-
Critiques on works posted are always welcome
A shop is a dangerous place and I would never expose my bare feet to the heavy things and the sharp things that reside there. I do often only wear shoes, but my feet are really only safe when wearing construction boots. Certainly, when otherts are working with me in the shop, I wear such boots.Originally Posted by Jamie Buxton
Others seems to feal that your concrete floor may conduct electricity but, having a wooden floor, I don't have to worry about that
Thanks - Doesn't sound like it would be a problem. I wasn't sure how hot the housing actually got.Originally Posted by Jamie Buxton
Coincidently, I just happen to be contemplating mounting it right next to where the cupola on the garage is - more because it's the highest open space available in the rafters than any conscious plan of locating it by a vent. There's a powered exhaust fan on the cupola but that's usually only turned on in hot weather to cool the garage.Originally Posted by Jim O'Dell
Dan - Thanks! If you can locate that thread I'd be real interested in seeing it. That might make it possible for me to have none of the cyclone projecting down below the ceiling joists and void any concerns I'd have about the thing projecting down so far that hitting the van roof makes this whole idea a no-go. Either way, giving it 2" instead of 1" should be the least of my problems.Originally Posted by Dan Forman
Use the fence Luke
I got electrocuted that way using my drill press when lightning hit out behind my shop. I did a dance like never seen before.
Unfortunately, it didn't break me from going barefooted. Just made me very leary of thunderstorms.
Full Load Amps
Most chip collectors run their motors at very near the full capacity of the motor. And, unlike the motors in many woodworking machnes, the chip collectors work at constant load. I guess you just have to trust that the motor manufacturer is rating its motors correctly.Originally Posted by martyphee
Frank ---Originally Posted by Frank Pellow
What's on the floor of my shop is sawdust, and not a great deal of it. It isn't likely to hurt me.
Heavy objects falling on my feet? Well, short of steel-toed boots, shoes are unlikely to provide much protection. As is happens, the objects I handle in the shop don't weigh a great deal, and wouldn't do much damage with or without shoes.
Electricity? All of my stationary machines and most of my hand tools are grounded. The outlets are grounded -- I installed most of them, and I've tested all of them. A few tools are double-insulated. That is, it would take failures of two separate barriers for any of these tools to present a shock hazard. This is pretty darn unlikely. Now, if I were were working inside a live breaker box, shoes would be a very good idea. (Of course, not working inside of live breaker boxes would be an even better idea. )
Jamie