Simple, Cheap Blast Gates *Free Plans!* (Amazon links in description)
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
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Sometimes motivation behind building something as opposed to buying has to do with availability. Sometimes it has to do with cost. Sometimes it has to do with quality. In this case it has to do with all three. I set out to build blast gates with scrap material I had laying around. Mainly I did this because I didn't want to have to order blast gates and deal with the shipping, and the cheap ones seemed a little....flimsy? There are high quality ones out there, but why pay for them when I can make my own? I figured I could come up with a design that I could crank out a bunch of parts for and then assemble as needed, so that is just what I did.
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I think it is very generous of you to make these plans public. Thank you
I like the little ears on your rails. Good idea for preventing the gate from coming right out as opposed to a long blade with a stopper which uses up more real estate in a crowded area.
Thanks! Exactly why I designed it that way.
Such a simple and great design. I bet some commercial company will copy the self-cleaning self-closing flap thingy soon. Thanks for sharing!
Hey, Thomas, you just saved me some bucks. Great idea, and very simple. You made it look like newbie can even do this.
Thanks for watching, Ted!
@@SouthpawWorkshop I need to make mine for a 1 1/2" system. I know it will work.
Screw clamps are great for multiple applications. Great job
Nice build. Can you advise how you safely and accurately cut the T notches in the spacers?
I used the bandsaw. I’m not sure you would be able to safely do it any other way.
Thank you for posting. I am getting ready to make several with your pattern. What I wonder is: if the pvc is just cut from DWV 4 inch pvc (drain pipe), (that you use on the blast gates) then what or how do you connect it to the 4 inch drain DWV pipe that you run from your DC? It seems this would be the same size? As well as going on to your tool? Making this stuff all fit together is a problem for me. Thank you for all of your effort to share!!
I just used normal DWV pipe couplers to attach the pipe to the blast gate. Then at the machine, the ports were usually pretty close, so I could make either the pipe or the flare fit with a couple turns of aluminum tape to take up the slack. Most recently I made custom gates and flanges using a 3D printer. You should check out that video too. Cheers!
Very creative design. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Thanks!
Nice video. One suggestions is that, make the gate longer (double length) so that you will not have grove when gate opened. These groves are pain when dust clogs them.
Nice design and I like the tape flap idea. I believe this video has concluded my search. Thanks for the video and the plans!
Thanks for putting this video together, Thomas. Very helpful. I found it as I was planning to move and set up a new shop. I built 8 of these well in advance of moving using 2-part epoxy from the hardware store, and loved how they looked and worked. Fast forward about a year and as I was getting ready to install at the new shop. I found that if I tapped the blast gate or wiggled it forcefully, or dropped it on the floor accidentally, the bond between the epoxy and pvc pipe would break. I used the “get a bigger hammer” principle and used a larger bead of JB Weld original cold-weld steel-reinforced 2-part epoxy (the stuff that cures to a dark gray color), and I am very happy with the results. They don’t look as neat and clean, but I am confident theyll I’ll get years of use
Thanks for the update, Jack. I really appreciate it. I have since moved from using epoxy to silicone caulk. Same seal, but it can handle the shocks and vibrations a little better. Just keep that in mind if you need to build any more in the future. Cheers!
Paint the ends of your circle cutter white. It will appear to be a solid disc when turning, lessening the chance of you placing your hands to close to the cutters.
Love the idea. I do not want to know what it would feel like to get hit by one of those fly cutters at full speed!
Good tip!
@@SouthpawWorkshop it hurts! and usually ends in a trip to get stitched up :D
Well, done! It's one of those genius in simplicity things. Thanks very much. Oh, I love that HVAC tape too, but I would have used duct tape where it didn't show - I'm cheap.
Well done simple design. Only other comment is to clean pipe with pipe cleaner as pvc tends to not like to bond to most glue's. Other wise very nice.
Great point. I have since move on to using silicone as it is more flexible and appears to last longer
Good job man, I always see dislikes a lot on these type of videos. Just for the fact you put yourself out there kudos to you sir for sharing your ideas with us. Don’t worry about the haters.....
Thanks for the support, Chris. I really appreciate it!
Thanks man, your design is great, you have covered and addressed important details to avoid device failure, such as dust in the gate track. Thank you again.
Thanks!
I'll have to try that on my system
Your video has been really helpful as i was looking at buying some blast gates and the price of them is too much for what they are, wanted some ideas to make my own and came across your video... Liked & Subscribed
Thanks! Glad I could help
Good design for a what is always a PITA problem - nice work!
Thank you for your detailed video and set of instructions. Greatly appreciated. Great gate.
Nice, simple design. A pin nailer or brad nailer would be useful to overcome the tendency of the layers to slide around while clamping.
Great instructions!
superb, simple, and easy to make. anyone can make it for their workshop! will make it soon!😄 thanks a ton from India!
Good work
Very good idea. Thank you
Couple things you don't have to run it through a jointer you can just put some wood paste on it. Also you're going to get clogs with those two little flanges on the inner part. you have to make it so it pulls all the way through or else it'll jam that Dust those crevices.
Great simple design that I will be trying. Thank you
I appreciate your video. Have you tried CA glue with the aerosol accelerator? It works great for small wooden parts. It cures instantly so you dont have to worry about parts moving with the wet glue on them.
I think it would work, however I don’t think it would be as airtight as using a nice even coat of wood glue. To make it airtight, you would probably need to use an amount of CA glue that would make it cost prohibitive. Thanks for the suggestion!
@@SouthpawWorkshop Thank you for the feedback.
Saw your video, just what i like, simple, to the point builds. You rock. Just subscribed !
That Aluminium tape is actually HVAC Tape just in case someone goes looking for it. Nice video, thanks!
Very cool. How did you keep from epoxying it to your table?
If you are careful, you shouldn’t have a problem. I don’t use epoxy anymore. I use silicone now. Makes a better seal and is flexible and lasts longer. Cheers!
Cool! Homemade always feels better to me.
Great idea and great job building them. I have to make a couple 4 inch Gates and got your link off another guy's video. Thanks again.
Ron, could you look at your watch history and let me know which video you got from he link from? I have been trying to track that guy down 😊
I know you did this a while back. Are you still using them? Was the effort to build them worth saving the $15 or so to buy one? I run on a TIGHT budget but time is also tight. Just trying to weigh the values. I appreciate this video and the plans.
They work well. Only worth it if you plan on making several at once.
Great idea? Thank you!
Nice job.
Good practical stuff matey
Thanks for the great info, I am just starting to put my shop vac. system together it is a great help. Had you considered using hard board for the material, I have a bunch on hand.
I think hardboard would work great.
Cudo's to you for making a video, I do not allow family photo's of me much less do a vid. I like how you presented it but I missed out on most of what you said because once I hear music of any kind, my speakers go on mute. WHY do people think they need music when they are trying to teach someone something?
I just made a pair of these, great job. Thanks for sharing
+Andrew Williams great to hear! I'm glad the video was useful
nice and simple; paper shims on top of the 2 spacers would eliminate having to joint, esp. because I don't have a jointer.
Great tip! I tend to overthink things...
Buying a blast gate would eliminate the insane waste of time.
I would have hoped/expected to see the blast gates in use. I have read complaints about blast gates, professionally manufactured that had issues such as a load hissing sound, losing suction so they had to keep adding tape to cracks etc. Why didn't we see the blast gates here actually being used and sucking up dust and shavings? Hard to make a decision to try the plans, free or not when we don't know or see the outcome.
Buy a 23 gauge pin nailer. Using all them clamps sucks for such small working surfaces. Ryobi makes a great one.
nice design - real simple... have a bunch of the flanged ends of sewer pipe i used for other things, so will make the gates 'female'.
This is a nice build but plastic blast gates are cheap. Their problem is that the end that receives the gate blade is closed. It makes the gate into a trash compactor. Saw dust accumulates in the closed end and eventually the gate does not close completely when you push it in. The cure is simple. Cut the end of the housing off just enough that you don't get the end of the blade. Now any accumulated sawdust is pushed out every time you close the gate. There is no loss of suction.
thanks for the plans will give them a try one day when I get around to setting up my shop dust system looks to me like they should work just fine. thanks again for the share
Great job. Thks
Thanks for the great video. Just got a dust collector and setting everything up. Could you just seal the side that used tape on? Maybe glue another thin strip of plywood in the opening?
+Stan Ellis with this design, if you don't leave that end open, dust will eventually build up and prevent you from closing the gate all the way.
In future videos, make sure that you record your audio in both channels. Watching this with my headphones makes it feel like you are whispering over my left shoulder.
What if I did that on purpose? *wink*
Thomas Lightle - Red Barn Woodworking Then you should change your channel name to Creepy Uncle Tom
Thank you, time to make blast gates in my shop
Just buy them. This is silly
It has been three years. How have they held up? I really like this idea. I'm going to be setting up a workshop sometime this summer, but $$$$ is definitely a factor.
I’m torn. They probably perform as well as the cheaper ones you can find on Amazon. It all depends on what your time is worth. Back then, I had nothing but time. Now when I re-install my dust collector, I’m probably going to buy my blast gates because I don’t have a whole lot of free time anymore to make them. They functioned for 2 years straight without any problems and likely would still be working today if I hadn’t torn out the dust collection system when I moved into a new house.
@@SouthpawWorkshop kudos for acknowledging that just purchasing a blast gate is the much more practical solution.
Thank you, very helpful! Cheers!
Thanks for watching!
Just found your video, Great problem solving and practical solutions!
Great job, thanks.
Why could you not have simply closed in the bottom with a strip of matching plywood? Maybe I missed something?
Over time it would get clogged up with sawdust and eventually you wouldn’t be able to close the gate all the way anymore.
I love that tape. Thanks for the plans!
Great idea! Thank you for the easy to follow video. I'm going to copy your invention. Thank you!
I don’t think it is an invention the concept has been around for many years and available In woodworking stores. His home made version looks to be a good copy made from plywood.
Nice! I'm going to make these.
But why do you have your table saw blade raised up so high to cut thin plywood like that? Scary!
+North Georgia Hawg it has been a while, but I believe it was to get as close to a vertical cut as possible, since I was cutting inside corners. The higher the blade, the more vertical the cut.
Thomas Lightle - Yeah, I've done that too, on occasion. We all have. But I saw you making through cuts at the beginning, and it just made me a little skittish. After a close call, I always keep the blade barely above the top of the wood these days, and cut out the rest with my jigsaw. Sadly, a bandsaw is still on my wish list.
Can't be too careful, especially as I get older. Funny I don't use the blade guard, tho... just a raving knife. Kinda hypocritical, maybe - but I like to see the blade directly. I always keep my eye on the spinning blade these days, and I usually turn the saw off with a big flapping power switch with my left hand after the cut.
LOL or maybe a RIVING knife! Can't edit my comment above.
Thomas Lightle - BTW I like your Harley T! I ride a 2012 CVO Street Glide... in which I have stupidly sunk enough $$$ to equip the shop of my dreams. If I had known then what I know now...
+North Georgia Hawg you have a point. I went back and looked and saw what you are talking about. Over the years I have learned to be more and more careful. I admit this was earlier in my RUclips career and I doubt I would be caught doing something like that these days.
You should use the blast gates horizontally and not vertically so the saw dust doesn’t get in the grooves and difficult the closing of the gates.
I had no idea what a "blast gate" was for until 8 minutes and 24 seconds into the video where he hooked it on to the dust port of his table saw. But the video kept me interested anyway! Thanks.
Great idea and simple,,,thanks for sharing
Awesome job
Brilliant
Yo this is tight. Definitely gonna be copying you a little bit. Thanks for sharing homie
I want to make a slanted version of this for a gravity fed grain dispenser.
Great video simple and effective
very nice video
I see you did this in January. How's everything working out with the flapper, etc? Thnx in advance
+Roger K they still work great. I haven't had any issues except some are slightly looser than others, so I have to make sure to mount them so it slides horizontally and not vertically because they won't always stay open if vertical.
Roger K
good enginering - simple and efficient
IT SEEMS TO ME THAT YOU WILL NEED A HUGE VACUUM MOTOR TO CREATE THE NEEDED TO SUCK UP ANYTHING MORE THAN JUST DUST.?. IF YOU MATCH THE DIAMETER OF THE TOOLS OUTLETS OR MAYBE A LITTLE BIT SMALLER I THINK THAT THE SUCTION YOU WILL GET WILL BE MUCH STRONGER....... Just my opinion and my past failures..........
I just spent 60 euro on 4 metal ones and they all bloody leek, the air comes in from the gap at the front of the blast gate.
Yeah they all do that. That opening is there to keep dust from packing in when you close the gate.
Really great job, thanks for the plans.
Fun to watch as always! thanks!
Hey Thomas - great video and nice design! Did you ever make up plans for this? I'd like to make some for my shop.
Thanks. Here are some plans for you to follow. www.dropbox.com/s/bk4xwv1z0py0jwo/Blast%20Gate.skp?dl=0
I just completed them. You will need Sketchup to view them. Just click from tab to tab to get all the information you need. Thanks!
Sketch up is great for those who have it. Why not make some that are in pdf format. Adobe is a free reader and since it is only a reader changes can't be made to the original.
Sketchup is free too! I do plan to convert any future plans to pdf in addition to the Sketchup files.
By the way... there is a pdf version of this plan on the description box of the video😊
I take it you don’t have a brad nailer or pin nailer. You could have added a strip of plywood in the void produced when you open the gate.
Defeats the purpose of the void.
Thomas Lightle - Red Barn Woodworking Which is....? Don’t misunderstand...I like what you’ve done and I likely will copy. I’m referring to the void on the side where the gate itself is not.
I’ll correct myself...I see you put an aluminum flap there. Sorry.
Sorry, I should have been more descriptive. The void is there to give any leftover chips and sawdust somewhere to go. Without it, over time, the sawdust will pack into the empty space and keep you from being able to fully close the gate. The void allows the gate to push out any residual debris every time you close it. I use the aluminum tape to create a hinged seal when the gate is open, so you don't lose suction through the void. Hope that addresses your questions!
Thomas Lightle - Red Barn Woodworking thanks it did.
Awesome build... Thanx for sharing :)
Nice video, making my own now, Thanks, ! Happy holydays!
Same to you, Frank!
Nice, if you have a drill press.
Great job bud...ty
Excellent blast gates...subbed!
Thanks!
Helpful - thanks!
Aluminum blast gates are like $14. Plastic ones are even cheaper. This is neat I guess but sweet Jesus, what are we doing here? Why stop at the gates? Glue up a bunch of circles and make your own pipes!
That circle cutter can be dangerous . First time i used one it hit my knuckles and i looked down and my testicles were on the floor and i began to preach sermons. I think it turned me in to a priest. Any hoo thanks for sharing i like your idea and will give it a try. God bless you my son.
Thank you!
Like them.......Thanks
Excellent content I liked subscribed and I am leaving a comment please make more.
just found your site great video
+martinda49 thanks!
Good stuff my brother nicely done bro :)
Nice instructions, but damn...kill that music. It adds nothing and is very annoying.
It seems the music is only on the left hand channel so you can lose it if you need to. In fact I had inadvertently lost my right hand channel so thought there was no voice but I switched on the CC and saw the commentary and figured it out LOL
Excellent !
I think hot glue would work just as good
The epoxy does pull away when you flex the PVC. I would say silicone or hot glue would be better alternatives
my left ear likes this
Music was loud & your voice was too soft. I don't watch how to videos for the music. Please turn it way down or off. Otherwise, good job.
Was ready to watch this but then RIP my left ear
Sketchup version link give the message ".skp files can’t be previewed. Blast Gate.skp · 112.63 KB Learn more."
You can’t preview the file in your browser, but you can still download it and open it with Sketchup. Good luck!
de todos los que he visto el mejor
Gracias. Me alegra que te guste.
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I love it. I mean with blast gates being 8 dollars and you spending at least that much on each. Ehhh
Your saw blade was to ight for cutting 1/4 inch plywood!
very interesting .......good video and commentary.........obnoxious "music".....totally unnecessary
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