Here’s the outside of the shop. The closet on the left holds the dust collector. The little wooden block hanging above the door is the first project I made in Jr. High shop class. It’s just a hunk of wood with my name burned into it. Whee. The pictures on either side are prints of Illustrator drawings the old Minnesota MultiAd artists did. On the left are 2 Caterpillar engines. On the right is a Lionel steam engine.

The dust collector. The box on the floor at the left is a chunk catcher.

View from the door. Mouseover the image to see a labeled version.

View from the other end. Mouseover the image to see a labeled version. I plan on replacing the dinky compressor with a large one that has enough CFM to run a ratchet and impact wrench, plus run a line out to the garage for filling tires and taking the mower blade off for sharpening.

The corner where the router table lives. It sucks dust from behind the fence and through a hole in the bottom of the cabinet. The cabinet holds accessories.

This view shows the bit and collet storage on the side, plus the Milwaukee router I picked up a couple months ago, which I use as a hand–held. My Porter–Cable router stays on the table. Note the manly forged wrenches hanging on the right that came the Milwaukee compared to the stamped steel wrenches that PC gives you.

Here’s a manifold to split the air to the drill press and router table.

The manifold in place.

Here’s a wye I made before I found the thin PVC sewer pipe wyes. Sorta sucks, but seems to work fine.

New pipes with better wyes than the one I made.

The chunk catcher in its new location. The air now goes straight through instead of like it was before.

New pipes with manifold on the west wall, and table saw connection.

Detail of the quick–connect I made. Just an L–shaped slot on each side that slips around bolts I tapped into the gate housing. A little duct tape sticks beyond the end of the pipe and gets sucked around the gate to help seal it up.