I have been busy building a Router Table.
On most of my main power tools there is an attachment point where I connect
up workshop vac .... this is in simple terms a male spigot ... 40mm diameter
onto which I push fit the extract hose.

Anybody know where I can get such a male fitting to fit onto back of fence.

I have made an air 'extract box' on rear of fence ... want to fit vac attach
to rear of this box.


http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/x...ence-front.jpg
and
http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/x...fence-rear.jpg


If no off shelf item I could glue in piece of waste pipe ... but thought I'd
ask

On 1 Apr, 16:26, "Rick Hughes"
wrote:
I have been busy building a Router Table.
On most of my main power tools there is an attachment point where I connect
up workshop vac .... this is in simple terms a male spigot ... 40mm diameter
onto which I push fit the extract hose.

Anybody know where I can get such a male fitting to fit onto back of fence.

I have made an air 'extract box' on rear of fence ... want to fit vac attach
to rear of this box.

http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/x...ence-front.jpg
andhttp://i771.photobucket.com/albums/xx351/Tafflad/fence-rear.jpg

If no off shelf item I could glue in piece of waste pipe ... but thought I'd
ask

Why not do it the other way around and use a female connector? On my
home-made router table I simply have a hole in the `extract box', and
the hose from my dust extractor pushes in to that.

dan.

Why not do it the other way around and use a female connector? On my
home-made router table I simply have a hole in the `extract box', and
the hose from my dust extractor pushes in to that.


Just that all others items already have a male fitting ...

On 1 Apr, 17:40, "Rick Hughes"
wrote:
Why not do it the other way around and use a female connector? On my
home-made router table I simply have a hole in the `extract box', and
the hose from my dust extractor pushes in to that.

Just that all others items already have a male fitting ...

It shouldn't matter. The various power tools I have with dust ports
are male fittings, but so long as the female hole on the extract box
is big enough, it will work well enough the other way around.

dan.

"dent" wrote in message
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On 1 Apr, 17:40, "Rick Hughes"
wrote:
Why not do it the other way around and use a female connector? On my
home-made router table I simply have a hole in the `extract box', and
the hose from my dust extractor pushes in to that.

Just that all others items already have a male fitting ...

It shouldn't matter. The various power tools I have with dust ports
are male fittings, but so long as the female hole on the extract box
is big enough, it will work well enough the other way around.

see what you mean now ... I thought you meant 'buy a female fitting'

Rick Hughes wrote:
"dent" wrote in message
...
On 1 Apr, 17:40, "Rick Hughes"
wrote:
Why not do it the other way around and use a female connector? On
my home-made router table I simply have a hole in the `extract
box', and the hose from my dust extractor pushes in to that.

Just that all others items already have a male fitting ...

It shouldn't matter. The various power tools I have with dust ports
are male fittings, but so long as the female hole on the extract box
is big enough, it will work well enough the other way around.

see what you mean now ... I thought you meant 'buy a female fitting'

A female fitting is a hole surely :-)


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

In message , Rick Hughes
writes

"dent" wrote in message
...
On 1 Apr, 17:40, "Rick Hughes"
wrote:
Why not do it the other way around and use a female connector? On my
home-made router table I simply have a hole in the `extract box', and
the hose from my dust extractor pushes in to that.

Just that all others items already have a male fitting ...

It shouldn't matter. The various power tools I have with dust ports
are male fittings, but so long as the female hole on the extract box
is big enough, it will work well enough the other way around.

see what you mean now ... I thought you meant 'buy a female fitting'

A shewee ?

--
geoff

On 1 Apr, 16:26, "Rick Hughes"
wrote:

Anybody know where I can get such a male fitting to fit onto back of fence.

I use two sources:
* Local tip, and dead vacuum hoses / pipes / buckets
* Axminster, for the big hose stuff.

My own router table is a crefully sized hole in the back of the
MDFbox, and the rigid plastic nozzle of the vacuum hose pushes in there

"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
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On 1 Apr, 16:26, "Rick Hughes"
wrote:

Anybody know where I can get such a male fitting to fit onto back of
fence.

I use two sources:
* Local tip, and dead vacuum hoses / pipes / buckets
* Axminster, for the big hose stuff.



maybe a spot of skip diving is called for. ... if I can get there before the
Pikies

In an earlier contribution to this discussion, Rick Hughes
wrote:
I have been busy building a Router Table.
On most of my main power tools there is an attachment point where I
connect up workshop vac .... this is in simple terms a male spigot
... 40mm diameter onto which I push fit the extract hose.

Anybody know where I can get such a male fitting to fit onto back of
fence.
I have made an air 'extract box' on rear of fence ... want to fit vac
attach to rear of this box.


http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/x...ence-front.jpg
and
http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/x...fence-rear.jpg


If no off shelf item I could glue in piece of waste pipe ... but
thought I'd ask


As a bit of an aside, what sort (make/model etc.) of vac do people recommend
for workshop use? I find that most domestic vacs soon get clogged up with
fine dust (particularly from brickwork/plasterwork rather than woodwork).
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Cheers,
Roger
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checked.

"Roger Mills" wrote in message
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As a bit of an aside, what sort (make/model etc.) of vac do people
recommend for workshop use? I find that most domestic vacs soon get
clogged up with fine dust (particularly from brickwork/plasterwork rather
than woodwork).
--


I bought a unit that also powers the power tool ... so switches on
automatically when you power up tool.

I did a lot of routing on Fermacell ... and nothing is worse than that for
fine dust.

On Apr 1, 7:56*pm, "Roger Mills" wrote:
In an earlier contribution to this discussion, Rick Hughes



wrote:
I have been busy building a Router Table.
On most of my main power tools there is an attachment point where I
connect up workshop vac .... this is in simple terms a male spigot
... 40mm diameter onto which I push fit the extract hose.

Anybody know where I can get such a male fitting to fit onto back of
fence.
I have made an air 'extract box' on rear of fence ... want to fit vac
attach to rear of this box.

http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/x...ence-front.jpg
and
http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/x...fence-rear.jpg

If no off shelf item I could glue in piece of waste pipe ... but
thought I'd ask

As a bit of an aside, what sort (make/model etc.) of vac do people recommend
for workshop use? I find that most domestic vacs soon get clogged up with
fine dust *(particularly from brickwork/plasterwork rather than woodwork).

cyclones work well enough


NT

On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 16:26:12 +0100
"Rick Hughes" wrote:

I have been busy building a Router Table.
On most of my main power tools there is an attachment point where I connect
up workshop vac .... this is in simple terms a male spigot ... 40mm diameter
onto which I push fit the extract hose.

Anybody know where I can get such a male fitting to fit onto back of fence.

I have made an air 'extract box' on rear of fence ... want to fit vac attach
to rear of this box.


http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/x...ence-front.jpg
and
http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/x...fence-rear.jpg


If no off shelf item I could glue in piece of waste pipe ... but thought I'd
ask


4 inches of 32mm waste pipe.

"TheOldFellow" wrote in message
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On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 16:26:12 +0100
"Rick Hughes" wrote:

I have been busy building a Router Table.
On most of my main power tools there is an attachment point where I
connect
up workshop vac .... this is in simple terms a male spigot ... 40mm
diameter
onto which I push fit the extract hose.

Anybody know where I can get such a male fitting to fit onto back of
fence.

I have made an air 'extract box' on rear of fence ... want to fit vac
attach
to rear of this box.


http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/x...ence-front.jpg
and
http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/x...fence-rear.jpg


If no off shelf item I could glue in piece of waste pipe ... but thought
I'd
ask


4 inches of 32mm waste pipe.

I have all sizes of waste pipe (I thought) and none of them were a good fit.