Thread: dusty vrs wet and dry

Welcome aboard Sean. I think if you rummage through the dust extraction threads you will find a lot of people eventually go down the route of a 2hp dust extractor, preferably with a canister filter, for the larger tools. This combo adds up the dollars, but there are cheap options like waiting for one to come up on ebay.

The dusty won't typically connect up to portable tools so you will also need some sort of shop vac as well for those and general cleaning up around the workshop. There is also the garage vac option which is a wall mounted cyclonic vac system with a nice long hose. You can then just drag the hose around rather than trying to move R2D2 through the mess.

There is also a big issue in not underestimating the harmful effect of dust in your lungs, if you don't get the collection thing going right, it's not just a matter of garbage collection. A lot depends on how much dust you create and how often.

Yes.

Type of dust/shavings also has a bearing. Vac style units don't cope well with bulk shavings as the tubes clog rapidly. They're described as high presssure low volume units.

Of course you can use one for the ROS etc and for cleaning up the floor after using a pan and brush to get rid of the bigger stuff. If you go this route, wear a face mask cos sweeping up just fills the air with fine particles that you can't see and these do the real damage to your lungs.