Steve Turner wrote:
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!


Make a manifold box so you can run the smaller hoses out of it, and if
needed (partially) open one or more of the smaller ports.

- Doug