i've been doing a bit of resawing with my unfinished band saw and the sawdust ends up all
over the place so the next thing i'll work on is the bottom enclosure to try to contain that a bit
this piece goes on here that will actually be part of the enclosure
i've been cutting a whole lot more pieces for the enclosure down here this covers that hole here
and then this will provide a place to step on and the place for the sawdust drawer down here
now this will be the bottom cover which will swing open like this
but it can't close because the trunnion is in the way here
i'm cutting this with a jigsaw instead of a bandsaw because i want the chipboard to
be on the top which will be the inside so this cover swings around the trunnions like this the
plywood i'm using is pretty thin so i want to put some ribs around the back of it
but i need to avoid where the hub is in the middle for the wheels
if you want this to be a bit easier you could just buy some slightly thicker plywood
the way i mounted that piano hinge is to carefully place it on each side
and pre-drill the holes so i don't have to worry about alignment once i screw it on
i'm marking where the notches on this piece go straight off
the bandsaw instead of relying on pad drawing
i'm cutting box joints for the sawdust drawer box joints aren't really necessary for this
but with my box joint jig always set up and no need to change saw blades to cut box joints
it's an easy default choice to make
and flush trimming your corners on the table saw
well not exactly flush trimming because it tilted the saw blade by one degree
the sawdust drawer is going to slide in at about this height and for it to have something to slide
on i made these things that are going to go on the bottom of the legs to support it it's possibly
a stupid idea to tip over the whole saw without taking any weight off of it oh [ __ ] that's heavy
oops i should have pulled that solid store out first
these things are shaped a little bit complicated because they have to fit around the wheels
and come down a little bit beyond the leg just to fit in more drawer height
and i changed my mind it is worth taking weight off of it before i tip it back up
these two little blocks limit how far back the drawer can go
so that covers the back of the saw but the drawer comes back a little bit
further than this so i made this l-shaped profile it's going to go right on here
i also need some way of directing the sawdust
that's going to fall down into the drawer not in here
oh fiddly bits like this are best done without following the plans too closely
i had to cut a notch out of this right here so it fits around this part here which in turn is
also for deflecting the dust inside and then i added this part here which fits around it
and that way all the sawdust gets deflected into the drawer and i'm not going to put that little
part into the plans because trying to build that sort of thing according to drawings would be crazy
i also used box joints to join the bottom blade guide cover but i didn't film that
and now i have to cut out a notch for the trunnion support beam
i start my cross grain cut with a backwards scoring cut to avoid chip out
so that still leaves a gap up here so i put a strip of hardwood across there to close that
those star knobs i added to my clamps do get in the way on rare occasions
now marking where the attachment knob is going to go
so it turns out that falls right where i've got
this screw no problem i took that screw out because this part's glued on anyways
but it's right on the edge of a knot which means i need better guidance for that thrill
and the threaded insert goes into that hole
oops that didn't go in straight oh there
the second time i put it in it was still crooked but it was in there so tight there's
no way i could back it up with a screwdriver and i couldn't just put it in somewhere else
because it has to match with this hole here and how to get it out well i put some washers on here
and another washer and another washer and then put this in here and then i just kept turning that
screw until it just tore the insert out and after that i drilled a hole bigger and just glued it in
aside from closing the area around the blade guide it also provides support for the table
through this piece and this piece here if it's not at 90 degrees this thing has to be removed
that blade has got quite an aggressive set to it looks like the sawdust all made it into the drawer
this board serves as a footstep for me to be able to adjust the tension crank more easily
and i thought a lot about moving that tension crank maybe to the bottom but that gets
complicated with those springs and it gets in the way here which means the wheel has to move up and
then i don't really gain anything or moving it off to the side but that gets really complicated
and in the end i decided to just leave it on the top because that works the best and least
likely to go wrong i glued together that resaw piece of wood to this which will be
the drawer front for my sawdust drawer and i want to put a recessed handle on it like this
i want a clean straight cut between those holes so i'm starting out by
making a plunge cut on the table saw between them
and the hole behind that front layer is a little bit wider and a little bit higher up
which gives me a nice ledge to grab with my fingers
and that's the bottom enclosure all done except for a latch for the cover
and a cover around the motor and belt making the cover is always anticlimactic because
the bandsaw is already working and it's just a long slog with lots of fiddly bits
which is why i included all the screw-ups at least all the ones i caught on camera in this video
just to make it a bit more interesting although unlike electro boom i don't screw up on purpose