Hello all (once again),
I now have a 4hp ducted DC setup with a cyclone. I am comfortable (although still have some bell-mouth work to do) that I am capturing the vast majority of fine dust, however.....
even with such a big beasty the bigger stuff (so far, especially the lathe but am expecting the same when I give the bandsaw a proper workout) I am still getting plenty dropped on the floor (and cabinets, etc). At the moment I am sweeping this up but think I should be able to attach some smaller flexi (after doing the reducing from 150mm) and make use of my 'beast'.
In doing research, I found: Vacuum cleaners work on the principal of a low volume of air traveling at high velocity, while extractors work on high volume air, traveling at low velocity. I also thought I had seen (on this forum) reasons to keep the two separate but can't find anything this time around. When I did a bodgy job of connecting my leftover 150mm flexi it seemed to pickup most of the crap on the floor.
I am thinking of plumbing the vacuum through an old pram so I can wheel it around but also be able to remove it to get into hard to get places.
Another option is a floor sweep connected to the DC but for hard to get places and bench tops this does not seem as good
Surely I can't be the first to consider this and others have tried it out one way or another.
cheers
Mick
I now have a 4hp ducted DC setup with a cyclone. I am comfortable (although still have some bell-mouth work to do) that I am capturing the vast majority of fine dust, however.....
even with such a big beasty the bigger stuff (so far, especially the lathe but am expecting the same when I give the bandsaw a proper workout) I am still getting plenty dropped on the floor (and cabinets, etc). At the moment I am sweeping this up but think I should be able to attach some smaller flexi (after doing the reducing from 150mm) and make use of my 'beast'.
In doing research, I found: Vacuum cleaners work on the principal of a low volume of air traveling at high velocity, while extractors work on high volume air, traveling at low velocity. I also thought I had seen (on this forum) reasons to keep the two separate but can't find anything this time around. When I did a bodgy job of connecting my leftover 150mm flexi it seemed to pickup most of the crap on the floor.
I am thinking of plumbing the vacuum through an old pram so I can wheel it around but also be able to remove it to get into hard to get places.
Another option is a floor sweep connected to the DC but for hard to get places and bench tops this does not seem as good
Surely I can't be the first to consider this and others have tried it out one way or another.
cheers
Mick
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