On Mon, 4 May 2009 23:07:04 -0500, tom koehler
wrote:

Tom... Google "downdraft table"



On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:13:27 -0500, Gerald Ross wrote
(in message ):

I posted pictures of my sanding table at

http://s575.photobucket.com/albums/ss194/gwross/

Hope that works. In the closed picture note the velcro patch on the
left front of the top. That is what holds my sanding curtain which
directs air from the lathe to the air cleaner. The furnace filters
are 14 x 25. The cloth bag filter is labeled 12 x 24, but measures
11 1/2 x 23 1/4 at the top frame.

I use it mostly as an air cleaner to catch what escapes the dust
collector, but it works well as a sanding table with the top down.
I calculated the total square inch of the holes to equal the area of
the exhaust port.


well, you know I am willing to reveal my ignorance again. I have never heard
of such a thing as a sanding table. I'd be perfectly happy to read about this
thing. From the stuff you have hooked to it, I am assuming it is a dust
control measure, but... ? I need to know more, please.

In my own shop I have a Jet dust collector with a basic 4" hose. The exhaust
from this collector goes out through an enormous cylindrical pleated paper
filter unit. i can have this thing running, with the hose propped up a few
feet off the floor, and I will get the air in my shop clear in a matter of 4
or 5 minutes. This thing is so nice - and relatively quiet too, I don't know
why I ever wasted money on a shop vac, years ago. No comparison. I guess I do
know, really. Ignorance again. I never even knew of the existence of such a
thing until a few years ago, and sorta bumped into one, on the internet.
tom koehler


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