G'day, so I have just upgraded my miter saw so what I'm gonna go ahead now and is make
myself a mitre saw bench. a couple of dudes that do want you to
check out is Robin Lewis makes he's made a pretty cool mitre saw bench and also
sumos projects are they're two very different ones so sumos has got some
dust collection on already, which is pretty cool but check them
both out, mine's gonna be probably a little bit different again so watch long
and I'd be like it
so I have chucked the saw on top of this whiteboard here.
I want to raise overall height so the when I make
my side pieces here I've actually got a decent depth to make some drawers so I'm
gonna use this existing base line for the bottom of this shelf and so all I
need to do is merely take a measurement
okay because that'll be the top piece that distance there will then be my
supports for that side of me that I'm gonna make
okay so my miter saw sits on
an old set of kitchen cupboards so I have to build up the sides so I can set
up this mitre saw station, this is gonna be very simple so I'm ripping down
my strips that I need to make those to raise the height of my bench and I'm
simply going to set it all up so I can glue and screw all these pieces together
it's gonna be nice and quick to get me back in action so I can keep building
I've also just got myself some proper dust extraction so I've got a hundred
mill pipe that I need to plumb into all moment machines now so now is the time
to get these fittings in I'll flip my bench upside down so I can cut out the
hole for this port and then I can go ahead and make the rest of the framework
so like I said this is gonna be very simple just glueing and screwing I'm not
cutting any rebates this is purely to get me back in action the way I'm doing
in here is how I did the first side it wasn't the easiest or the quickest
process I later in the video I've come up with a better way to attach these
support pieces a lot more efficiently
so the reason for this build is I've upgraded my miter saw which you can see
here and I'm absolutely loving this machine already how it gets right up
against the wall but what I am thinking about with this build is enclosing every
possible place that dust can sit and hide so all my benches will be nice and
flush I'll eventually get a dust shroud up and over that miter saw but already
with that suction just flowing without a shroud it's already sucking and heap of
the dust away beautifully
so another bonus is a space-saving you don't have all that wasted space behind
mitre saw fence that you normally get when you've got a sliding
miter saw with the long rails so now I've just got some slimline cupboards
I'm raising them up because in front of that there's gonna be some t-track where
my stop block is gonna run so I need to be out open to close those doors without
hitting the top of the stop block and again I'm putting some trimming around
the bottoms and the sides to prevent any dust just filling up underneath that cupboard
okay this is the second way of attaching those support rails and far more
efficient and I wish I had have done this on the first one so I'm merely
gonna clamp it on on the edge piece it's already nice and square I'll glue and
screw and then for the center pieces I'll do the same thing and I'll just
check its square with my new big yellow square which is awesome
and here's the right side of the mitre saw going on now I've already had to cut
out a check for that steel beam that holds up the shed but it's slotted in
again nice and flush up against the mitre saw to stop any dust falling down in
between which will then marry up with that shroud right hand side once I get
to it
but I've got to a workable stage so now we get back into building
one other thing I do want to mention is you're probably wondering why I'm using
all this nice melamime (laminate) well it's actually a recycled kitchen now one of
the mates got dusted up in the floods last year and all this kitchen in my
shed is actually is salvaged so these are the last pieces some put those to
good use and I'm very grateful there's pretty good stuff
I'm now going to cut
us some rebate in to put in some T track so I can have a stop block just on
the left-hand side at this stage, working with pallet wood, one of the things I do
is lots and lots of repeatable cuts so having a stop blog and I eventually put
my tape or sticky tape back on with the measurements that'll speed up the
process again but I absolutely cannot live without this it is such a time
saver highly recommend getting some form of
stop block with a measurement hanging off the side of your miter saw
so the next small job is I actually want to remake this stop block this one's a
little bit older it's actually broken a couple of times I made it pretty poorly
originally and I've also got to lock the top off that that threaded nut so I can
open shut the doors but anyway that's pretty much it
there's my little Homer Simpson he's missing his legs he needs an upgrade as
well have a miter saw station finished up so I've still got some drawers to
make I've got to make a dust shroud but I've now plumbed up this dust chute here
and I'm pretty impressed with the extraction I've just got that on
temporarily for now with the other shop vac. this tops not yet fixed in a couple of
drawers they go in there also and I'll end up doing some sort of shelving up
the etc and I'm pretty happy it's gonna let me get back in action because I've
got a bit of deadline we're gonna get cracking on some long boards
specifically one that's gonna be heading down to Melbourne
in Australia they tuned for that
just finally one more quick shoutout dust
it's why I had a 20-19 war and dust and starting 2020 I'm a off to a good start but
dust extraction of got some pipes all plumbed in I've got the most all plumbed
in I'm gonna get a shroud I've got a few smacks on the bum from a
few of my other videos where I'm not wearing the appropriate dust extraction
take that on the chin but if you want to learn about some dust PPE and looking
after your lungs because they're important without them you die anyway go
and check out James fix it fingers last video he goes right through all the
different types of PPE protection specifically the dust and also chemicals
he knows he's stuff it it's a bit dry and here the village is that but it's
it's pretty important stuff go and check it out have a watch and look after
yourself so you the next one