Good afternoon:
Rushton: As you know, the idea for the RAS was not mine.. just my take on it. However, since you are going to use the 6 x 4 x 4 Wye, I have to ask another question. I had done research and saw a recommendation for Grizzly's in this thread. I had seen it on Grizzly too and the price was right so I bought 3. I anticipate one pair of 4 inch hoses for my table saw, one for my planer, and one for my mitre saw... anyway, I got them yesterday. Not ready to use them yet, but I had expected them to fit into a 6 inch joint, or for 6 inch pipe to fit into them. Neither is true. The end is chamfered and there is no easy way I can see to use them. Do you know if the expectation for these is to have them on the end of hose? I don't see at present, short of some kind of kludge, of using these. I'm leaning toward heating a piece of pipe and forcing the 6 inch end into this. I only have 3, so it is just a little heartburn, but is there something I don't know for these? My table saw is the tool I am most anxious to use these with. I'm going to make a blade cover for the top. I learned on another project that I can heat and bend acrylic and it works very nicely, and I have a number of examples for a cantilevered device for the top blade collector... I did not anticipate difficulty using these Wyes.
I was thinking at first you were looking at a different idea for lighting under an RAS arm.. .well, in it actually. The guy was clever but my did he work hard. He took the thing a apart, cut apart a small light bulb to get the LED element, wired it right into his switch, etc. It was extreme. I'll be interested to hear how your approach works out. If I do it, I'm just going to use my little battery powered.. at least I'll give it a try, but it is not on my radar just yet. Where did you get your strip lights? I did some research on those. I found some places you could get decent size rolls but I never got beyond the research. I like what you did with them on the barrel top. Do you need some kind of transformer for those?