yea another ripoff type thread.
had to drill a couple of small holes in the ceiling.
didn’t like getting dust all over so remembered that trick with the cool whip container, but i used the top of a prescription bottle.
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how small were these holes?
A few weeks ago, a coworker and I had to remove part of a plaster ceiling in a stairwell. Dust was not an option. Since there was access from above to cut from, I suggested a bucket vac. We used a 5 gal bucket with a hole in the bottom for the vaccum to catch the dust. As I cut along the floor joist, my partner followed with the bucket pressed against the ceiling. Worked really well.
It's a pretty simple one really.
A couple of years back, I made up what is essentially a birch plywood angle iron or "L" Jig, with about three inches on one side, four on the other and four feet long.
Sometimes this is a cuttind guide for a router, clamped to the sheet below. Sometimes I clamp it over my router table as a guide fence. Sometimes I clamp it to the workbench so I can clamp pieces to it that I need standing vertical for planing or glueing, which is what it did this time.
Excellence is its own reward!
While cleaning out the attic of the shop (to insulate finally) I came across 4 boxes of those Veritas metal drawers I got 3 years ago from Lee Valley, so yesterday I made the cases...still don't know what I'' use them for, but at least I have them now.