Somedays you are the windshield
Good Morning All. Hope your 4th of July was safe and enjoyable.
Some days just happen to be lucky days. I am one of the proud garage/shop multy function space people. I have a standard 20x20 garage that houses two vehicles and doubles as my play area. I have been dealing with a shop vac for dust collection and dreaming of a real DC unit. This always seemed like a pipe dream because of space. I was doing a project a inches couple of weeks ago that had me planing down 6 2x4s to a thickness of 1 1/8 inches. After the first one was cut I noticed that my shop vac was full. Ok time to buy a bigger vac. Rigid sounds good, price about $100.00, still have to deal with the filter and all that but it is bigger and better.
Thursday evening we stop in at Lowes to get a Wonder Bar and what do I spy in the tool selection but a Delta 50-720. A real stand up dust collector and built to be portable. I had seen these on the internet and thought pretty cool and just might fit but at $300.00 just a tad bit steep. I walk over and look at this one and see it is marked down to $199.99. I offer the departement manager $180.00 for the last unit and he accepts. Happy days and a much cleaner garage to follow. This weekend I plained down 6 more 2x4 and didn't even make a dent in the bag.
Some days just happen to be lucky days. I am one of the proud garage/shop multy function space people. I have a standard 20x20 garage that houses two vehicles and doubles as my play area. I have been dealing with a shop vac for dust collection and dreaming of a real DC unit. This always seemed like a pipe dream because of space. I was doing a project a inches couple of weeks ago that had me planing down 6 2x4s to a thickness of 1 1/8 inches. After the first one was cut I noticed that my shop vac was full. Ok time to buy a bigger vac. Rigid sounds good, price about $100.00, still have to deal with the filter and all that but it is bigger and better.
Thursday evening we stop in at Lowes to get a Wonder Bar and what do I spy in the tool selection but a Delta 50-720. A real stand up dust collector and built to be portable. I had seen these on the internet and thought pretty cool and just might fit but at $300.00 just a tad bit steep. I walk over and look at this one and see it is marked down to $199.99. I offer the departement manager $180.00 for the last unit and he accepts. Happy days and a much cleaner garage to follow. This weekend I plained down 6 more 2x4 and didn't even make a dent in the bag.
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