Remote gate operation
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Re: Remote gate operation
Micheal, would you make one for every machine? I use a gate on every machine tool so I can get max airflow to that tool. The homemade gates I used were made very similarly to the ones you show except manually slid. The problem I had with them was the fine dust binding the slider, but that can occur in the manufactured ones too. Good video. Thanks for posting it.
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Re: Remote gate operation
No, only for ‘hidden” or unreachable gates.Herb Stoops wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 12:32 pm Micheal, would you make one for every machine? I use a gate on every machine tool so I can get max airflow to that tool. The homemade gates I used were made very similarly to the ones you show except manually slid. The problem I had with them was the fine dust binding the slider, but that can occur in the manufactured ones too. Good video. Thanks for posting it.
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Re: Remote gate operation
I have one like that going to 2 sanders. If it was just going to one sander I would have installed it by the machine but I had to wye the connection for 2 which put the gate where I couldn't easily get to it. It and the piping run along a wall under a long work bench with large drawers and a shelf underneath. So I drilled a hole through the flange on the gate and put a threaded rod in the hole and double nutted it. The rod sticks up through a hole at the back of the bench.