I need to control my dust on the job. Sometimes I have a planer, joiner and a tablesaw setup on the job. I thought about fein and/or festool vac. I like them for using hand power tools but I was looking at the small horizontal dust collectors that are on casters. I was also considering the oneida canister systems that hook up to shop vacs. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? |
“When the job is perfect, we’re almost done.”
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I've been beating the snot out of a ClearVue shopvac cyclone. Using it mostly for cleaning up after repointing brick, chiseling out the old crumbling mortar makes a ton of really fine masonry dust. It works great. I use the cheap paper filters in my shopvac, and I was getting a couple of days of solid use out of them before I had to remove and shake out the filters. Without it, I was getting minutes of usage before suction dropped appreciably.
Now I use it hooked up to my SCMS. Works great with sawdust. I don't hesitate to recommend it.
http://www.clearvuecyclones.com
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I can't believe more wood guys don't do this.
Jobsite dust collection?????? Whats your resolution? "When the job is perfect, we're almost done."
Real suction. Not some POS home made item.
It would pay for itself in labor alone. Anyone who has worked on a high end job knows that keeping it cleaner than most is a plus.
Tablesaws are the worst offender for spreading sawdust. I have a rubber garbage can between the saw and a portable dust extractor connected with 4" hose through the lid. The garbage can catches all of the shavings that plug up the screen on the extractor.
My table saw has a hose hookup so there is a fair amount of draw at the blade. Small extractors with 4" intakes will out suck a canster vac any day. I've run 25 sheets of MDF for shelving etc on finish jobs and only half filled a 5 gal bucket with the sawdust laying on the floor. I did however empty the extactor and the garbage can numerous times.
My best attempts to build an extractor shroud behind a mitersaw were never very portable but sometimes worked. Making one to allow bevel adjustments were too large to create significant draw near the blade. Tarping on a homade rack behind the mitersaw also works pretty good at catching a big portion of the dust without extraction.
I find any way of keeping the dust off the floor helps stop it from being tracked all over the jobsite.
I've got the answer to the chop saw problem. The chopshop hood http://fastcap.com/sawhood.aspx Its very effective and it folds up small for transport. You don't have one you should get one. The other saws are my issue. "When the job is perfect, we're almost done."
I run 2 mitersaws, the fastcap hood won't work for me.
It was the fastcap hood that inspired me to make my own.
I did something similar with a tarp, clamps and some 5' alm bar clamps. It's large, effective, easy to set up and maybe cost me $40. After some modifications, it also doubles as a rain awning off the back of the cube van. Might work as a sun awning too, when we get some.