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Blast Gate Improvement

comments (7) September 10th, 2009 in Reader's Gallery

MyCousinVinny MyCousinVinny, member
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Before I Cut the gate it will not close fully. Shave the corner open, Not off.......
Blast Gaste Improvement
After Shaving open the corner and clearins out the wood, I now closes fully ans face the openning down it will always clear itself out every time you close it....
Before I Cut the gate it will not close fully. Shave the corner open, Not off....... - CLICK TO ENLARGE

Before I Cut the gate it will not close fully. Shave the corner open, Not off.......

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If you use these anoying Plastic gates that do not want to close. Check this out. I cut the corner and faced it down and it clears itself out............


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RoboRob RoboRob writes: I believe he means you open the gate and then cut off the corner of the gate frame at the bottom. This leaves a slight opening on the bottom of the gate frame but leave the gae itself with a square edge. When the square gate is closed, the gate corners act as a plunger and push out the sawdust that has a tendency to accumulate in the gate frame slot. Good idea!
Posted: 2:10 pm on November 9th

jrhesch jrhesch writes: Try drilling a small hole in the face of the blast gate, right in the corner that the gate slides into. It will accomplish the same effect.
Posted: 9:54 pm on November 29th

MyCousinVinny MyCousinVinny writes: It leave a thin slot basically. Not very much vacuum leak at all. Not as bad as a gate that does not close all the way.
Posted: 11:53 pm on September 13th

baudi baudi writes: Don't those holes leak when the gate is open?
Posted: 9:58 am on September 12th

MyCousinVinny MyCousinVinny writes: If you are familiar with these plastic Gates on your dust collection system, After a while of use they do not want to close fully. Therefore, not sealing when closed which causes lose of suction to another piece of equipment. The inside slot that the slide gate move in fills with wood dust and chips and every time you close them it packs it in more. I used to take a nail every few months and clean out this grove but it is a Pain. Since I did this 2 years ago, I never had a problem again. If you look a the picture, I just shaved the corner so it would be open to alow the packed saw dust to drop out every time you close it. in the picture you can see the actual wood packed in it right after I cut the corner. If you look at the gate closely you can see it was not closed all the way, That was as far as it would close before I did this.
Posted: 10:59 pm on September 11th

F0054700 F0054700 writes: I'm with baudi could you explain it more
Posted: 9:04 am on September 11th

baudi baudi writes: Seems like a good idea, but I'm not sure I follow. Could you explain a little more?
Posted: 3:09 pm on September 10th

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