Amazing Latch Mechanism for Remote Control of Blast Gates - Woodworking
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
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I'm finally setting up a stationary Dust collector with all my woodworking machines permanently connected. This video is about my solution to how to operate the blast gates if they had to be installed out of reach of the machine operator. The solution I came up with is using bowden cables to actuate remote blast gates very comfortably. I show the making of the blast gate itself and the process of making the lever mechanism for opening and closing the blast gate.
Love the latching mechanism!
Matthias Wandel yes you would, so overcomplicated it’s perfect
@@OneManBandWoodworks *100k subscribers* --> meh
*Matthias Wandel* comments upon, nay, *loves* your mechanism --> That has got to be a milestone for every techy RUclipsr :)
It’s funny, I was watching this and thought that this is something Matthias would like....
You are the best Matthias... this kind of project is remind me your kind of thinking ...
Wow Matthias and Marius both watched this, I'm in the right place I feel like 😂
Hammer! Geniale Idee und Umsetzung
you too are genius. I really like your videos too.
... quite an ennoblement, given where that came from! 😂
Marius my man!! Happy to hear from you... what about a new video? I miss your content !
This is simply brilliant.
The light behind the dust collection bag is another great touch.
The release mechanism is pure genius!
Time and time again it gets confirmed: Germans are exceptionally gifted engineers.
Thunderstruck it’s not a gift, it’s good educational systems
@@trotskiftw It's both. Try not to lose any of them.
This is exactly why I subscribe to folks like you, Matthias, and Marius. Brilliant.
In addition to a solid and clever solution to a problem, your presentation was an excellent combination of both speech and video. I have grown weary of the how-to videos with no voice-over to explain both what and why you are doing. It is like I am supposed to be impressed with the silent wizardry. The purpose of a how-to video is effectively communicating a concept or idea. There are many forms of communication and an intelligent combination of the various forms is a best practice and certainly the most effective. Your video scored a direct hit on all counts! Thanks
What a fantasticly elegant solution.
You have no idea how much I love this. So brilliant yet simple at the same time. You are one of the best RUclipsrs, Cosmas. And 9:26 was just way too funny!
Finally. A good use for a golf ball! Excellent video. Very creative. Thanks.
Like everyone has already said, this is pure brilliance. and the man's got a PINK drill for cryin' out loud! props to you!
Nicely done Cosmas. I will definitely be using this idea in the near future. I'll give you a tip. You can directly thread into birch plywood. The tap hole has to be near 100% thread engagement. It works very well. Testing has proven it to be considerably more resistant to pulling out than a screw. And you can easily disassemble it many times without any problems as long as you are careful not to cross thread the hole used.
I have been using this method in jigs for my cabinet shop for decades.
Ingenious and clever Cosmas. A classic example of function and form working in harmony.
One of your best videos !
German engineering indeed!
Bravo!
Very smart Cosmas, to cut the holes through all three pieces all at once. Your video was worth the viewing just for that. But what a very cool way to open and close the gate!
I would out these in my system, if it used gates, just to have something called a Bouden Cable. “Batten down the bouden cables! Full speed ahead!”
Your videos are truly worth waiting for
Ich liebe solch geniale Lösungen und wer sagt, das man an Schrittmotoren heutzutage nicht vorbeikommt? Ich ziehe den Hut vor solcher Genialität. Dein IQ muss bei über 200 liegen. Danke für das Video.
This is a great idea for blast gate automation. It reminds me of the older style cable releases used in photography (now they are mostly electronic). They used to have a screw you could use to lock down the cable release to keep the shutter open. This kind of approach might work to keep the blast gate open too.
Now I know my plans for the weekend. My school shop was built for high school students but now it's a middle school shop and some of the blast gates are out completely out of reach for my youngest students. Moving the gates is not really an option. I attached extension poles to some of them but that solution is pretty clunky and easily broken. I had been looking at electronic solutions, but those are prohibitively expensive. However, I can pretty easily run bowden tubes to the four most awkwardly located blast gates.
May I share a solution to a related problem that might interest you? Last summer I removed the (frequently mislaid) RF remote I had been using for the DC system in my home shop. Instead, I put magnetic micro-switches on each of my blast gates. These are wired in parallel to control a low voltage circuit that energizes the solenoid of an HVAC contactor. The contactor switches the dust collector. The first blast gate opened turns it on. The last one closed turns it off. Most of my blast gates are immediately adjacent to the machines, but I'll build three of your bowden cable actuators to handle my jointer, planer and table saw's gates.
Looks like I'll need to build at least seven of these, probably a job for the CNC machine.
Very nice in every respect: design, workmanship, narration, and the video. Thank you! I just ran a search for bowden cables. At first, none cheaper than $10 US showed up. Then I remembered a marvelous online and brick-and-mortar surplus source in Lincoln, NE, Burden's Surplus Center. "Bowden cable" yielded no results so I searched "control cable". Though some cost as much as $75, at the moment they have 998 pieces of lower quality control cables 78" long for $1.99 each. The stock number is 1-3487. One caveat - Surplus Center gouges you for shipping so look over their whole inventory for stuff you might want before ordering.
The locking mechanism is brilliant!
A little over engineered, I LOVE it!!
Was needing a handle for a similar application and looking on amazon. Now I will raid the golf bag. Thanks.
Hi,
This is, again, a proof of VERY good thinking.
The solution is ingenious.
Thanks for sharing.
Willy from Belgium.
👍👍👍👍👍
Very nice! Little things like this make woodworking more enjoyable! I like this idea 👍
I just thought that the "obvious" solution these days would involve Raspberry Pis or Arduinos, stepper motors and whatnot. This is way cooler.
A strange world in which we keep complaining about needing to save energy and do away with environmentally harmful power generation, yet everything has to be microcontrolled with electronic devices, completely forgoing that a lot of things can be reliably used with already invented, simple mechanism that dont need electricity to function.
@@nekoimouto4639 well, a total of 50w on machines that uses 20 times as much isn't really the heavy hitter, when it comes to saving power.
Turning your hot water down to 70 celcius would do a lot more. Even turning of a lightbulb when leaving the room would save more
That was, without doubt, the most elegant, well executed solution to remote blast gate control, I’ve seen.....and I’ve been looking.
Because of my background, I had almost settled on a small DC “servo” solution for my own design.....but like you, was not thrilled about adding yet more electrical complexity to my shop. Yours is a far superior solution with only nominal mechanical complexity. I especially liked the elastic tubing retractor design.
I hope you won’t mind if I “borrow” some of your design elements for my own shop dust collection.
Brilliant mechanism.
I really like your ideas. awsome and simple. no electronics required
A very elegant solution!
Brilliant. Not over engineered but easily made in any shop. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Awesome yet simple engineering Cosmaus, I dont know how this video slipped past me, I would normally watch your content straight away. Often search your channel between videos
Great execution to solve a vexing problem for a lot of us!
Nice work. You are a talented engineer as well as a maker. Thats rare!
Again, very original content. Bravo.
Such a beautiful latch mechanism!
That is totally awesome! Best thing I've seen on YT all week!
Eine ausgezeichnete und absolut herausstechende Idee und Umsetzung! Klasse gemacht 😊
Nice job. Will copy it son for my workshop. Thanks for this video.
you sir are a genius!!! , while i was thinking of using rc motors this is way easier AND cheaper ,
This is fantastic! I love the design, and the simplicity of the mechanism.
Beautifully simple design.
Neatly engineered and well executed. Good job.
Very clever! I like this idea. And it's great for different mechanical actions. Good job, mate!
This is just poetry. What a great execution! Cheers!
Very nice job
Nice design, well done!
I wish my mind could work like that! Beautiful and clever
That is ingenious. Well done.
Great work. You always amaze!
Very cool latching mechanism! Golf ball handles are comfortable in the hand- have them on my drill press and most of my files. I had a similar idea for cable operated blast gates- but I was going to use 2 cables, one to pull open and one to pull it shut. Will likely copy yours!
Very elegant solution. Love this design.
Cosmas that is an ingenious latching mechanism you have come up with. Thank you I have added that to the may be useful pile..
Brilliant Cosmas !
No kidding, that is fricking beautiful.
Love your videos.
Outstanding innovative design! Thank you for sharing.
Pure, plain brilliance!
Sir Genius! Perfect solution for me too. Will der be plans available?
I was thinking this would be a good mechanism for an operator controlled grass flap on my mower. Really cool!
Nice design. Looks like it works well
Very nice! Makes me proud of my German heritage.
Love it. Clever, your design.
such a elegant solution
awesome mechanism, and solving a common problem! i know a good part of the video was the blast gate itself, but i imagine this could be applied to any blast gate with a few small mods
Very nicely done sir!
Great video. Creative engineering and design! Mahalo for sharing. : )
Absolutely amazing! Great design.
Absolutely brilliant.
Fantastic! Thanks for the idea! I need to build something similar!
Very clever; thanks for posting
An excellent idea. I love it. Subscribed!
Grandios! Sowas habe ich noch nirgends gesehen 👍
This is fascinating! Thanks for taking the time to make these videos :)
Genius! For sure, very elegant!
Great job and very clever
Very nice! I love the clicking pen mechanism
What a nice build! Good work, man!
Super well executed. Love it.
Lol, I love the golf ball on the handle.
Awesome!!! Will you be making the plans available?
Do you have a CAD file such as .dxf/.dwg/.f3d or image with the pattern you used for the locking mechanism that you could upload? It'd be great to use a CNC Router to reproduce that pattern.
Phenomenal job dude
Incredibly nice!
Really nice idea and simple to build!
Really like the latching mechanism! However I can't help but think a pull-pull system with two cables would be simpler and you don't have to worry about the rubber wearing out...?
Justin Depew
I see some yellow fluid in his corn flakes. Lol
Pull-pull would have been simpler indeed.
You could even use weights and let gravity do the return.
@@D8W2P4
that's right. Cosmas doesn't seem to me the kinda guy to just build stuff for pure functionality. What we see here happens for the love of mechanics, really.
Ohh I love that mechanism !!! Good job my friend !
That's an excellent idea! You're a clever designer!!
Nice! I need to do something like this in my shop.
Best remote control yet!
Pure genius. 👍👍👍
PURE GENIUS!!! LOVE IT!!!
Great design and build quality Cosmas, very well done Sir! reetings from Southport UK.
Clever. Very, very clever.
Amazing design. Also learnt the name of those cables. Used to just call them "Pushbike brakey/Geary cable thingies ".
Bicycle cables are usually called just shift or brake cables.
super job very well done
Great mechanism build. 👍
Very elegant.
Holy crap this is brilliant. Any chance you could upload the template for this (or both)?
That would be excellent if he would.
Just brilliant!