Thread: Ducted System from a Shop Vac Mk II

Originally Posted by cava

Is that a towel on an operating bar heater I see? Cold in Katoomba?

Ah yup. Around 14-16° that day. The towel was added just that day - Lizzie likes to lie on top of the sheet metal heater - it makes noises I didn't expect - I don't like unexpected, unidentified noises - they distract me when I have sharp bladie things in my hand - Lizzie likes towels - we're all happy.

Thanks for the kind words FF. In some ways you can thank the taxpayer for funding my education and research over the last 35+ years. While I was not specifically researching dust I still had to learn about it and how to manage it. It only dawned on me relatively recently that all that work could be applied to wood dust.

The only thing missing in the shed is a lathe.

Ross

Great looking shed. As I have been using my new (old) tiny but useful band saw a lot I'm going to have to think about dust extraction myself.

Interested in the bench drill setup you have seems you have invested a lot of time in that rather than a regular drill press what's the reasoning there?

Mike

More on the drill press here, but the pics went awol in a forum upgrade a few months ago, so the pdf at the bottom has some pretty lo-res pics.

Fantastic work brett. One day I'll get around to doing the same kind of thing. Any reason you chose 50mm over 60mm?

And for your router, how many hoses do you have running from the same vac at the same time? Seems to be a full octopus in your router cabinet...

Trav

Cheers Trav.

I already had a few 50mm joiners/elbows, and a fair bit of pipe. Furthermore the entry into the vac (the ultimate choke point which dictates everything) is 50mm.

On the router the black hose is dedicated to the shopvac, and the other three go to the bigger dusty.