Thread: Dust extraction

Tony

Not sure about the Ozito. I think you will be surprised how much you use a shop vac...I got a sherwood one and as well as being hooked up to my router table, I also connect to my 1/3 sheet sander and Random Orbital sander. The connections stay on the sanders and I just plug the hose in. I also use for vacuuming my shed floor rather than sweeping and making more dust.

I would spend a little more and get a bit better quality.

Garry

Thanks Garry,

Where did you get your Sherwood? Our local has Bosch vacs for $220. I might think about getting one of those.

Cheers
Tony

Exactly what I did for a long time. Not only for my router table but also for my Ryobi thicknesser.

Issues:

Fine dust clogs the filter reducing suction. I have washed my filter time and time again as they are over $50 to replace.

It doesn't hold much.

It certainly did the job for a while and I fully expected the thing to blow up a long time ago but it is still kicking. I now have a small DC so only use the Ozito for cleaning the workshop.

Till you can afford the real thing, go for it.

Thanks Johnny,

I suppose anything is better than nothing.
As I said, I don't use it that much so emptying it isn't going to be a drama.

Cheers
Tony

Tony

I got the sherwood from Timbecon, was quite a while ago and only paid $100. I think the ones they sell now (about $240) are a lot flasher with tool activation, probably more power and have dust bags (mine is just a drum with filter which I just wash out when it clags up with fine dust).

Seems a lot of money (similar to Bosch one) for what they do. Maybe the Ozito will do the trick if they are cheap enough as Johnny_V said. I probably wouldn't use on a thicknesser though. If you've got the tablesaw you probably want or have already got a DC anyway.

Garry

Hi gents,

I had a look at some of the vacs and the pitfalls of filters blocking up and the like. Not much fun.

Anyways I bought a shop vac vacuum cleaner ($69 from bunnies), a length of hose(5m) to go between the tools and made a triton dust bucket cyclone as described on here. I then paid for a hepa 3 micron filter from shop vac and used thier drywall bags as well.

Essentially, vacuum cleaner goes outside the shed so any exhaust dust is not circulating in the shed. The triton cyclone stops 98% of the heavy crud, the drywall bag collects all the finer stuff and the hepa filter just cleans the final stuff.

You could probably do away with the hepa filter as its not really doing sweet fa but I have it already so I use it.

So what sort of results do I get? Using an orbital sander connected to this for around 15 mins using 100 - 180 grit pads would be a fair trial I guess. Without the vacuum suction there is a pile of dust that would take a few dustpans full to get rid of. With the vacuum suction, there is only a slight dust coating. Eg wipe your finger across the timber and you can see the colour change where the dust has gone. A good result I would say. I know that there would be some suspended finer dust in the air so wear a dust mask as well. And I also switch on the 2hp dust collector to filter the air as well.

Just my 2c.

Best of luck.

Shane.

Thanks All,

I've treated myself to a Vacmaster. It's 1400 watt wet/dry, $225 at Gasweld.

I've made an adaptor to extract the dust from the router fence.

Cheers
Tony in Sunny Dapto