Thread: Amazingly simple 14" Bandsaw Dust Collection Mod

Simple idea, and so easy to set up. Very nice.

Some thoughts:

Did you consider trying to attach the hose at the back? With the hose to one side, any dust on the other side of the blade will be blocked by the blade (even if only for a very short time, that will be enough for the dust to be lost in the lower enclosure)? Depends on the available space, I guess.

For this application (side-mounted), and because you want the dust to be entrained in the airflow very quickly, perhaps shop-vac would work better than a high-volume, low speed dust extractor.

Zen... Fair comments.

You can't really put the hose on the back or at the front.. the trunnions are in the way and no real access. the only way in on these saws is from the right hand side.

I tried shop vac but dust collector is far better at catching all the dust because you can use the 4" hose with its wide diameter opening. The smaller diameter shop vac hose just doesn't cover enough area to maximise the catch.

Also, with this setup it still catches everything on both sides of the blade. The 4" hose pulls air in from all around the area under the table and easily sucks up the fine dust the blade creates and sends down through the table. After a fair bit of resawing, there was virtually no dust in the bottom wheel area at all.

If you attach a 2HP dusty to it, it will be even more powerful, but the 1HP mobile dusty I attached was more than sufficient.

My Electra Beckum has a dusty port at the back of the bottom cabinet. It actually works really well - and I don't even use a proper dust collector, just a little GMC shop vac. I reckon that you could cut a hole in the back to do this, but your way seems easier and if it works, it works.

Cam

Cam, No easy way to go through the back on these saws. The lower wheel/belt housing is in the way, and to the side of that is cast iron :eek:

Ahhh. I looked at the front and thought, you could bang a hole through that pretty easily (and assumed the same applied to the back).

Anyway, your setup also keeps the bottom guides clean (which mine doesn't).

Cam

Looks almost identical to my BS, except mine has a dust-port in the middle of the lower door and it's bloody useless, even with the 2HP dusty! The position is just wrong, wrong, wrong... dust still builds up in the bottom and around the lower bearings. Keeps the lower wheel hub sparkling clean, though. It also makes it a pain to change blades, having to disconnect the duct to open the door.

Methinks I'll try your method. I assume you route the hose to the back of the table when you have it tilted?

Skew,

Havent tried it with table tilted to 45. I find I rarely tilt the table on the bandsaw. But yep, would probably put it around the other side if it fit with table tilted.

Hi Dean,

Methinks I owe you a greenie for that

On my Metabo (Electra Beckum) 14" B/S the 4" hose attaches to a port low down on the bottom case near the front - and collects about 30% of what the saw kicks out, especially when resawing.

As the hose is already just about in position, I'll have a go at mounting it per your illustrations (my saw doesn't have a balancing pin, but I'm sure that I can come up with something (even if it means drilling & tapping a wee screw hole).

Thanks mate!

Dean,
A lot of people use a toilet flange (Plastic / ABS) and attach it to the bottom wheel cover. Usually the back or non hinged part of the blade cover. A hole is cut where the flange is mated with the saw. The flange is reported to be the size to mate up with a 4" DC hose.

Originally Posted by rrich

Dean,
A lot of people use a toilet flange (Plastic / ABS) and attach it to the bottom wheel cover. Usually the back or non hinged part of the blade cover. A hole is cut where the flange is mated with the saw. The flange is reported to be the size to mate up with a 4" DC hose.

Hmm never seen/heard of that idea before. Know of any URLs showing it off at all?

G'day,

Here's my solution for hooking the Dusty up to the b/saw via a big fat magnet which has a thread in it already so it made it pretty simple to attach to the elbow.

Originally Posted by Dean

Hmm never seen/heard of that idea before. Know of any URLs showing it off at all?

Not a toilet flange, but probably cheaper!
https://www.woodworkforums.com/showpo...3&postcount=16

I use this with a second hose very much like yours Dean, but I've been using occy straps until I get around to buying the magnets!

Cheers,

P

New version completed today, but not run (waiting for the rest of the DC system to catch up)

It's a simple 45° connector in 100 pvc, with two straight cuts only, and fits like a glove!

I will run this as well as the one through the front panel.

cheers,

P

Midge, thats way cool sunshine.

I want that one