Shop Built Blast Gates is a comprehensive guide to producing blast gates for your dust collection system. It includes detail drawings, material requirements, and step by step instruction with many high quality photographs of manufacturing processes. Also included are several detail drawings of tools and fixtures. There are detail and assembly drawings provided for 10 different designs. Additionally, the author explains how to easily mix and match components from the 10 designs to allow you to quickly and easily produce literally dozens of different sizes and types of gates. In addition to the detail drawings, the author has included nearly six dozen color photographs and illustrations along with step by step instruction for producing each individual part and completing the assembly. These are working blast gates, that have been shop tested and are used daily in the authors own shop. If you have been considering building your own blast gates, or if you just wanted to know how. This is the information source you have been looking for. With this book, you will have all the information you will ever need to produce "Shop Built Blast Gates"

Easy-to-follow instructions and diagrams for building dozens of attractive, practical birdhouses -- from a one-room house for bluebirds to a forty-two-room structure for purple martins. Also contains a supplement with easy projects for novices, among them houses made from such common objects as gourds, flower pots, and tin cans. 56 plates; 4 figures.