It’s no secret that the woodshop is a dusty place to work. Even when we take precautions and clean a pile so someone else doesn’t have to, it gets everywhere. On machines, and in our lungs.
Asmbly is actively looking for ways to improve the workspaces to be a more safe and inviting place to be. Recently we applied to the Cameron Foundation and won a grant that will help our mission to a cleaner workshop!
The grant will help us cover the costs of a new dust collection sytem to include a new DC unit, ductwork, and a more intelligent blast gate system by GRIT.
More details will follow soon on the specific machines and hardware we’ll be upgrading to. In the mean time. We have a high level plan in place as well, however this is where we could use some of your expertise to help out.
In the next 1-2 months, we’ll be setting up a new DC unit in the corner by the woodshop roll up door. Once that is setup, we’ll plan a weekend long workday event to upgrade from our roughly 8" ducts to 14" ducts. During that, we’ll be setting up the GRIT blast gate system.
As timing would have it, I will be out for a few weeks. Besides JD and @Glory2God being our woodshop leads, @phurfphurf will be heading up this project to meet our endstate. @mgmoore will be helping with some electrical requirements. Here are other roles that we could use someone’s help with:
| Role | Description |
|---|---|
| Workday Coordinator | * Schedule and Advertise the workday or two and help drive involvement. * Helps during the workday to ensure volunteers are directed and to who needs assistance. * Coordinates food and drinks for workday |
| Disposition Coordinator | * Helps ensure old machines and parts are sold, repurposed, or reused appropriately in the workspace. * Ensures we don’t have extra construction materials hanging around |
| Ductwork Specialist @atwatsoniii | * Decides the ductwork layout. * Ensures accessories or mounting equipment. * Coordinates volunteers to hang ductwork as planned. |
Besides the above, we could use the help ensure things are clean and orderly during the transition, deconstruction, and construction.
This is a massive improvement for us. I’m incredibly excited to be a part of this with you all and in taking the woodshop to the next level.
