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"
About the Author: John Nimmo has spent a lifetime designing, building and teaching others. As a very young child, he spent many hours with his father a carpenter, cabinet maker and craftsman. By the age of six, he had been given his own small set of hand tools which he used to build toys that he designed himself. Although he loved woodworking, when he graduated from high school he decided to pursue a career in engineering. He began his engineering career in 1972, and excelled at it. Although his engineering career was devoted to mechanical design and the automotive industry, he found that having grown up designing and building toys and furniture had given him a leg up on problem solving, design, and project management, thus augmenting his engineering career. John maintained a home woodworking shop through 20 years of engineering, and although he progressed through all engineering positions to engineering management, he was not completely satisfied. It seemed that with each new professional accomplishment, he was taken farther away from design, teaching and woodworking. In 1992, he decided to establish his own company and return to his roots. This company would remain involved in mechanical design and the automotive industry, but would offer a variety of services; design and development of products, and production tooling, rapid prototyping, model building and component part production. This allowed him to involve himself in more hands on activity, in particular model building. Like most of his endeavors, his company was very successful, with a client list that included General Motors, Wayne Wheeled Vehicles, Terex Mining, and the list goes on. John is an Associate member of SAE, Society of Automotive Engineers and a senior member of SME, Society of Manufacturing Engineers. He has taught numerous young people drafting, design, project management, mechanics, and woodworking. In 2008 he retired to spend more of his time in his woodworking shop at home. We are fortunate now to have him back doing what he does so well; designing, building and teaching. This time, he will be developing processes and training documents for us rather than for corporations. This book is evidence that he has not lost his touch. His approach to design is simple and his training is very complete and easy to follow. I guess that's why so many people who have been mentored by him have so many good things to say about him. I know that you are going to enjoy this book and hopefully many more to come.