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POTD has been waaay too long in the works. I had a primarily wood shop in the basement of my old house before my wife and I married 28 years ago. My Grizzly 4-bag dust collector did a great job keeping debris just in the basement. It has a 3 HP motor and moves something like 2000 CFM. For comparison, a typical 2 HP shop vac moves about 250 CFM.
We bought 64-acres and built our current house a year after getting married. I finally got around to hooking up the dust collection system again. I had used just a single hose to the table saw on occasion and thickness planer, but the sander, band saw and router weren't hooked up.
I used 4" drain PVC and 4" flex hose from Grizzly for the plumbing. It's not shown, but there's a copper wire running through the PVC which goes to ground for static electricity. Don't know if it's just an urban legend or not, but supposedly the dust can spark and explode from the static electricity built up on the plastic tubing. I ran a lot of wood through my planer and table saw without static electricity protection back in the day; have never witnessed or read a true account of a fire, but figured it was easy enough to run the wire as a precaution.
The blast gates were shop-made 35 years ago. Used 3/4" thick hard maple, 1/8" masonite and a 4" drain union cut in half. Used construction adhesive to hold it all together, but beefed them up with some screws before hanging them on the wall.
Thanks for looking.
Bruce
Grizzly 3 HP dust collector in the far corner. Use a Grizzly "Long Ranger" remote switchable 220V plug to turn the system on/off.
The flex hoses are hung on the wall when not in use. My only concern is the dust from the far end might fall down the "Y's" as it travels to the collector. Might have to turn them 90 deg. so the junctions are flat to the world. I did plane 100 board feet of black walnut using the far-end port and had very minimal chip dropage into the sander and band saw runs, so probably OK.
Shop-made blast gate. They were around $20 each back in the day. Wouldn't even consider making them now as they are available for around $5 each.
We bought 64-acres and built our current house a year after getting married. I finally got around to hooking up the dust collection system again. I had used just a single hose to the table saw on occasion and thickness planer, but the sander, band saw and router weren't hooked up.
I used 4" drain PVC and 4" flex hose from Grizzly for the plumbing. It's not shown, but there's a copper wire running through the PVC which goes to ground for static electricity. Don't know if it's just an urban legend or not, but supposedly the dust can spark and explode from the static electricity built up on the plastic tubing. I ran a lot of wood through my planer and table saw without static electricity protection back in the day; have never witnessed or read a true account of a fire, but figured it was easy enough to run the wire as a precaution.
The blast gates were shop-made 35 years ago. Used 3/4" thick hard maple, 1/8" masonite and a 4" drain union cut in half. Used construction adhesive to hold it all together, but beefed them up with some screws before hanging them on the wall.
Thanks for looking.
Bruce
Grizzly 3 HP dust collector in the far corner. Use a Grizzly "Long Ranger" remote switchable 220V plug to turn the system on/off.
The flex hoses are hung on the wall when not in use. My only concern is the dust from the far end might fall down the "Y's" as it travels to the collector. Might have to turn them 90 deg. so the junctions are flat to the world. I did plane 100 board feet of black walnut using the far-end port and had very minimal chip dropage into the sander and band saw runs, so probably OK.
Shop-made blast gate. They were around $20 each back in the day. Wouldn't even consider making them now as they are available for around $5 each.
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