Dust Collector

[Mike1950]

My brother has a 3 phase 10HP motor that weighs 700 pounds running his dust collector. Trunk line might be 16" or bigger, but most of the drop lines are 4", I think 6" to the 24 or 26" Oliver planner. The cyclone cone is 12' tall and drops into a 10' x 10' bin. I'm good with my 1.5 horse roll around Grizzly.

Those big old planers were brutes. The Yates i ran at min could do 30" . But 99.9 percent of the time it ran dimensional lumber. But when they got huge clear pine the would just planed s2s. 24" clear pine 1.75 thick was beautiful.

 

[djg]

Got onr done. I'll let the caulk dry and then better support the duct. Then move onto the second one.


I tried to taper the inside of a 4" hose fitting to fit over the DC fitting on the table saw. I found out two things. First, I need to learn how to turn. I completely destroyed the hose fitting I was working on. You guys make it look so easy.. lol
Secondly, when I was making a jamb chuck for the fitting I used my chop saw. As I said I use to run both chop saw and table saw without DC and then just clean up the mess at the end. This time I hooked up my shop vac to the chop saw, but dust flew everywhere. either the connection (it was clear of debris) doesn't work or I need a bigger shop vac.. lol

 

[2feathers Creative Making]

The connector on the chopsaw is a decoy, as far as I am concerned. If you want to capture from a chop, most of the collectors I have seen were made like a hood over a stove but with the funnel to the rear. Kinda like tipping the stove hood 90 degrees

 

[Sprung]

The connector on the chopsaw is a decoy, as far as I am concerned.

Yup, completely useless. Same goes for the hose connectors on radial arm saws. (Which is why, after more than 4 years since getting my shop set back up after our move, my RAS still hasn't been hooked up to DC....)