Leon wrote:
"Steve Turner" wrote in message
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Leon has talked about his dust collection approach before, and I think
what he's doing is mostly workable and cost-effective. After years of
dealing with just a shop vac (almost totally inadequate), I bit the bullet
and went with a big Grizzly cyclone with full ducting (snap-lock) routed
to all the big machines: table saw, radial-arm saw, planer, jointer, and
band saw. That too is working great, but I've *not* run ducting to my
router table, Ridgid belt/spindle sander, or drill press. Those machines
need *something* because they can create a hell of a mess, but I can't see
firing up the big cyclone to catch a pee cup's worth of dust. For those
little guys, I'm still falling back on the shop-vac, which is still
semi-inadequate, and having to use it just kinda ****es me off :-) I'd
also like to have a small portable dust collector to replace the shop-vac.

Why not use the DC for the router table? Is it too loud? Mine is right
next to the router table and not really loud. Actually I often leave it
running, but anyway I have hearing protection when I use the router, or
planer.

It *is* loud, but it just seems like overkill to me, kinda like watering my lawn with a fire
hose, and who knows how much extra electricity it chews up! :-) It's a 2HP 220V cyclone
with a 7" input port, and it can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch. My router table has a
little 2" port for the cabinet and a 1-1/4" port for the fence. I'm afraid the collector is
going to suck the router right out of the table!

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