Thread: Dust Extraction for the Triton range

Hi Guys,

I setup a simple dust box under my table on the past weekend and thought it might be worth showing here.

It is a box made of that hardboard stuff (brown cardboard like sheets from bunnies)
I have the height winding kit so I wanted to make sure that I had enough clearence on either side. (which I thought was the most challenging bit)

The box isn't fixed in anyway to the WC. It hangs off two short lengths that span the aluminium rails for the saw. These lengths have small slots cuts in the end to sit over the rails.

Apart from the hardboard, it made use of scrap timber and half a roll of gaffa tape to make the seals airtight.

Over the top I have made a cover not too dissimilar to the triton dust bag from an old towel/rag I had. I intend to use this as a template for a canvas or similar cover which I think I will velcro down to the box.

In all quite a simple design and very, very easy to make and whats even more important, now I dont have to spend ages cleaning up the shed

and thoughts or comments are most welcome.

cheers

Dean

ps sorry about the quality of the picture, my mum has borrowed my digital cam and I had to use the handycam which has really bad resolution. As you can see. I will take some more with the good cam if anyone would like a closer look?

always helps to attach the photo

Someone turn on the lights.....

Originally posted by Intheshed
Someone turn on the lights.....

Ahh that's better.
Now make us a cuppa tea....
<runs>

Cant tell by the picture...but it looks like there is NO opening to allow fresh/clean/non sawdust heavy air into the saw motor vents.

Could be a good way of stuffing a perfectly good saw.

Please forgive me if there is something I cannot see.

I was doing some mass routing the other day, and I used a tarp to cover in three out of the four sides on the router stand and table - leaving the long lefthand side open (as you are standing at the switch end). It was far from perfect, but it collected about 90%+ of that stray sawdust - I was toying around with the idea of using the masonite you seem to have used - to form a three sided funnel into a box (or cheap plastic crate from Bunnings). Really need to keep one side open for power leads / hose / ventilation etc. I dont want to kill the Orange router !!

Will post some pics if I get around to doing it.


Dohboy

I suppose Dohboy that did concern me at first but I figured that the volume of air that flows through it when connected to the dust extractor it is not likely that it could over heat or get a build up of dust to wreck the motor.

cheers for the thoughts. I might have to do a little re-engineering and put a small recess to allow the motor to breath.

dean

Hi Ozplanit,

Very intersting design.

This has been a burning issue for me ever since I first turned on the Triton Power saw and scared the begezus out of my neighbors a few block away.

Any chance of getting your measurements and telling us how you sealed the top to the Triton?

Jeez....now I'm confused too :confused:

Sturdee.. when you mention DC are you talking about a real one like you get from Carbatec with 4 inch connectors or your modified cyclone setup?

Bazza et al.... I always thought that you set the saw blade to only a couple of mils above the wood surface to minimize dust and get better quality cut. Also seems safer. Now I'll have to dig out the video and see what George has to say
cheers
ROD

Originally Posted by riffi1

Sturdee.. when you mention DC are you talking about a real one like you get from Carbatec with 4 inch connectors or your modified cyclone setup
ROD

Sorry to confuse you Rod, when I talk about DC I do mean the 2hp twin bag Carbatec dust collector (with a 44 gallon chip extractor in between) ducted to all main / stationary machines. I use the modified Triton dustbucket setup for cleaning up and with hand held routers and sanders.

Peter.

Hi,
Are those with 4" dust extractors of the Carbatec type connecting them to the small hoses of the Triton Equipment or does it throttle the air flow too much for the dust extractors to be more effective than a vacuum cleaner?

Doc, to use the 4 " hoses with the Triton equipment you have to modify the Triton equipment to allow for the increased airflow.

I modified the WC overhead connection to take the 4 " hose as well as the router fence connection. Details are posted on the board.


Peter.

some thing along these lines

I've been following this and a couple of similar threads with interest for some time now, toying with a few ideas on how best to hook my 4" DC to my Triton saw & WC2K and I think I've finally come up something that should be simple, lightweight & effective but...

The way I see it I don't want to reduce the effective dia of the 4" pipe so I did some guessamatics. A 4" duct has a cross-section of some 12.5 sq" and a 2" duct has a cross-section of some 3.1 sq" (1/4 that of the 4") so making an adapter (much like a set of car headers) to run 4x 2" pipes from the 4" shouldn't restrict air-flow, neh? Or am I mis-remembering my high-school maths? (Area of a circle = pi*R^2)

So, if I'm right, I could run a hose to the guard, one to the port on the Triton saw itself and two elsewhere. With one to the saw port, the Triton dust-bag (new style) shouldn't collect as much dust so I'm thinking of modifying the saw guard to take two hoses and modifying the collector-bag to take the remaining duct.

The latter mod will be to remove the bottom bag altogether and replace it with a funnel, modified to run into an 8" length of 4" PVA pipe capped at the bottom end. The hose will run to about 1/2-way up this pipe with holes drilled around the pipe at the same level as the hose take-off to provide cross-flow . Hopefully this will suck up any dust as it falls into the pipe without collapsing the top bag/collection hood.

Can anyone see any glaring flaws in this idea before I waste time'n'materials constructing it or irreparably modify any pieces? [fingers Xed]