Dust collection

[67baja]

Who has one, do you like it, and how much was it? Anyone just using a shop vac? I am getting quite the collection of wood working tools now and, consequently, quite the collection of saw dust all over everthing. I see Harbor Freight has one for $89, but I am not a big advocate of HF tools. The festool line of dust extractors starts around $350 if I recall correctly. My shop is just part of my garage, so there is not a whole lot of room for a big dust collector.

[Bruce Weldy]

Here's what I use.....

[Bill Fitzmaurice]

I use a blower and blow all the dust out the door into the backyard.

[Frederic Gelinas]

In my garage, I don't have any and try to work outside whenever I can. At the shop, here's what I have: http://www.general.ca/site_general/g_pr ... 0-110.html

It takes a lot of floor space, but it sucks like hell. (Why do I anticipate some jokes after that line???)

[bzb]

I use a Dust Deputy DIY that I scored for $10 after a sale and an Amazon gift card I got doing some survey. It works really great, most of the dust and chips go into a 7 gallon plastic pickle bucket I got at a local deli. I still change out my shop vac's filter every few months or so, but it seems to do a really good job at keeping most of the junk out of the shop vac's tiny container.

[jswingchun]

I use this with both shop vac and a harbor freight dust collector.

http://www.cgallery.com/jpthien/cy.htm

I use the second overhead collector on this page:

http://www.kevinsbrady.net/DustCollection.html

[Jon Barnhardt]

darn you! now I had to order the dust deputy!

[Ken Lustgarten]

Dust collection can be divided into 2 categories. High flow/low pressure and low flow/high pressure.

High flow/low pressure are the large dust collection units and are used for "heavy iron" tools.Tablesaws, joiners, and planers are examples. They have a 4" dust port.

Handheld power tools such as the Festool do not work very well with the above dust collectors even with reducers. The problem is that they are high flow and do not have a lot of suction. A strong suction is needed to get enough air to flow through small hand tool ports to be effective. For this use a shop vac is perfect and is an example of the low flow/high pressure. Just about any shop-vac will work. Sears sells a power adapter for 15$ that will turn the vac on and off automatically by sensing when the tool is powered up and down.

A great addition to the shop vac is a cyclone. I use a Dust Deputy.

It keeps the dust out of the vac and out of the filter so that it does not constantly get plugged up. As the filter gets plugged up air flow decreases. The cyclones are very effective at preventing this.

[Dan30]

I use a Ridgid shop vac and for whatever else I use the air compressor to blow the stuff out of my garage.

[Tom Smit]

Got to keep it DIY.... http://www.cgallery.com/jpthien/cy.htm again.

[LelandCrooks]

http://www.jettools.com/us/manufacturin ... uct=273500
on the big tools.
A shop vac mini on the handheld tools.

[Melissa Goudeseune]

Got to keep it DIY.... http://www.cgallery.com/jpthien/cy.htm again.

+100

I have one on the shop vac, and one on the big dust collector. They work so well, I can't tell how much dust actually makes it past the separator.

95% of the effectiveness of a cyclone, for about 1% of the cost. The parts will set you back $50, if that.

[AntonZ]

Got to keep it DIY.... http://www.cgallery.com/jpthien/cy.htm again.

Another +1 for this one. Mine was made from an old bucket, some ply scraps and a few other bits and pieces. Cost next to nothing, very effective indeed.

[Jon Barnhardt]

My Dust Deputy:

[Jon Barnhardt]

Finally got the dust collection filter/air filter built and up and running. Contains 2 attic fans rated at 1600CFM each blowing upwards. 6 filters total around all 4 sides. It makes a HUGE difference in the shop.



fans - 2 @ $60 each
filters - 6 @ $6 each
plywood - $30
sheet metal holders - 6 @ $9 each

So about $240 into it and worth every penny so far!

I could have made the filter holders out of plywood, but I figured it wasn't worth all the extra time to get them "just right" and wait for all the glue to dry. Had this operational in under 3 hours from the first cut to plugging it in.