Dust collector garbage bag holder

I use heavy-duty garbage bags (designed for a trash compactor) to empty my dust collector into. Nothing worse than having a bag spring a leak and start spraying dust all over the shop a guy just cleaned up.

Anyway, I got some water in the shop a couple weeks ago from a storm with a strong east wind that pushed the rain under the shop door. It puddled right where the box of garbage bags was sitting on the floor, and the cardboard box turned to soup.

So I made a box. This started as a single board of 5/4 oak. I resawed it and planed it to half-inch and made a dovetailed box. Drilled a couple half-inch holes, then made some half-inch ash rods (Stanley 77 to make the ⅝” squares to rounds, then a rounding plane to reduce them to half inch), threaded them, and made a stack of walnut nuts from a 3 inch cube (drill holes at the corners with a forstner bit, then drill a 7/16 center hole, put it between centers on the lathe and make it round, then cut it into four half-inch thick knobs on the bandsaw, then thread the central holes). Was good practice making threaded rods and matching nuts for some future project. Remember to soak ring-porous woods in BLO the day before you’re going to try and thread them, it’ll work a lot better. Walnut works ok with no prep.

The back is three ship-lapped smaller pieces of oak cut from the same board, nailed on.

The box holds two rolls of garbage bags, which is how the compactor bags come.

The oak box is painted with Real Milk Paint Granny Smith Green. It’ll get another coat of tung oil over the paint after it’s had a few days to dry and I rub the paint with some 0000 steel wool.