On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 14:29:27 GMT, "Rick P."
wrote:

I'm finishing up the building of my new hobby shop in the backyard and I want to eventually add a vacuum system. My building is small, the area that I have reserved for woodworking after the storage area is occupied will only be about 10x18 which is basically a big room....not a man-sized woodshop but I'll make it work with some good organizing and strategic location of tools etc. What I what to do is setup some sort of a basic vacuum system using a good shop vac. While doing some research on the net I ran across this idea at Tyler Tool's website. http://tylertool.store.yahoo.com/sh80sawducos.html
It looks to be something workable for my needs but I would like some advice or possibly some better ideas or suggestions, maybe from past or current experiences. I can't afford or justify a regular dust collection system unless there is something available that is comparable in price with this setup. I would have about $135 or so wrapped up a Shop Vac system from this site using their dust collection system and a QSP vac (w/2 1/2" dia. hose).
TIA
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Venture over to your local Sears or Home Depot and look at their clear
plastic tubes and fittings that they sell to use a shop Vac as a dust
collector...
I run a real dust collector in my shop and have a second smaller 1 Hp
DC dedicated to a planner and router table... BUT I also got damn
tired of dragging my shop vac all over the shop ...when I needed to
use the vac cleaner....

SO

I went over the Home Depot and spent a small fortune (13 little
orange blast gates, umteeen connectors and tubes along with plenty of
elbows etc... ).... I at least now have a central vac system in the
shop where I can reach into every corner with a single 8 foot hose
just by plugging in the hose to a blast gate...as I walk around the
shop.

Works fine as a vac...

BUT PLEASE DO NOT even think this set up is a dust collector...it
simply is not... By attaching it to your machines you will end up with
a cleaner shop (but not a dust free or even close to dust free shop)..

My purpose (even with the 2 DC's and the vac system) was a cleaner
shop...less sawdust on my clothes and on my shoes to be dragged into
the house etc... NOT a dust free (and healthy) workplace...

My Vac system "sucks" much better then either of the DC's BUT it was
not capable of removing much of the fine dust generated at the saw
blade or router bit of my machines...

That said I am completely happy with my "Central Vac System" ..

Bob Griffiths