i'll give you one guess as to what today's video is about
yeah rabbits no not rabbits in this video i'm going to show you my dust collection solution
and how i made it along the way i'm going to share some hopefully helpful tips on how
you can make one too and not spend an enormous amount of money which some people manage to do
welcome to with the grain the show where i cover myself in sawdust and make videos about it
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a week at the moment it'll be great to have you on board as you get more and more power tools in your
workshop whether it's a big workshop or a small workshop you're going to be creating more and
more and more dust you need some way of getting rid of that a little home back might be okay if
you've only got a small shop and you've only got one tool that you never really need to move around
then maybe that's fine but as soon as you get more and more it becomes real pain to move a big shot
back around even if you put it on a cart so you may want to think about an integrated system and
that's what i'm going to show you today hopefully along the way you'll pick up some hints and
tips that will save you some money and a lot of aggravation in the process whatever solution you
use it needs to make your life easier not harder it's harder than you have to drag something around
on a cart for instance that may not suit you if you've got lots of power tools all over the place
hoses get in the way cables get in the way it actually can be quite dangerous the last
thing you really want is tripping over a vacuum and going hands down straight onto your table
saw because it's not very convenient and it makes a real mess of the blade i said just you just and
they're expensive they are so the solution i had to come up with was to put an integrated system
down the side so i'm going to show you how that works this end of the shop is mainly taken up by
the bandsaw which is sitting on its dolly once you put a dust extraction system in it's quite likely
that you might actually have to modify the tool in order to be able to maximize its efficiency but
with the bandsaw there's not very much you can do because there's so little to work with these blast
gates are literally just attached to 68 millimeter rainwater piping which is ridiculously cheap and
then all the connectors are really really cheap as well and they make for a really good system these
ports are all homemade as you can see they're far better than the ones that you can buy that
are made out of plastic all of blastgate is is a way of isolating an inlet so you're not trying to
suck through more than one inlet at once that's all literally all they do they're pretty easy to
make they don't cost really any money if you've got lots of scrap plywood lying around like i do
this part of the workshop is grind around the pillar drill in it and between them is another
port which has a flexible hose on it so i can angle either direction so i can either suck the
filings out which is probably the worst thing you need to suck into a filter but there you go
and obviously the sawdust coming off the pillar drill now if you're using a forstner bit on a
pillar drill you'll know just how much sawdust that produces and it's really really useful to be
able to suck it away because i've got a witch head on the side of the workshop i decided to put the
vacuum and the cyclone that i've got out there partly because it saves noise and also because
the air coming out of a vacuum still has particles in it i figured it was probably a
really good idea for air quality to put the thing outside and therefore i wouldn't have to breathe
particles inside i have a port over here as well now again this hose is removable
it's just a friction coupling and it connects to the hose that goes onto the bottom of my lathe
now it's impossible to catch all the dust on a lathe you're never going to do it
they throw chips meters away from where you're working what i've done is i've built
a small collection bin underneath which you can see here is actually just a piece of guttering
downpipe collector and that underneath connects into a pipe and goes into the port on the wall
now it's not designed to catch everything but what it is useful for is grabbing handfuls of
sawdust that come off of whatever it is that you're working a couple of things to mention
as i said earlier i use 63 millimeter hose for most things this stuff comes compressed
like this it's hilarious when you undo it your dog goes mad because he thinks he's being attacked by
an enormous snake these gutter couplings are standard normal 68 millimeter gutter couplings
now strangely they fit exactly inside the 63 millimeter pipe they obviously taper down to
take the internal diameter of a piece of gutter there's a solution this is a very good one
the other good thing about this stuff is that it's designed obviously for water flow
now obviously air is not water but they do move in similar ways and have same
and similar characteristics both respond to friction particularly if they've if it's full
of dust having a smooth rigid pipe is an awful lot more efficient than trying to throw air and
sawdust through something like this which has got ridges all the way down the inside each ridge will
create its own vortex of air disturbance which will then slow everything down and probably catch
lots and lots of what you're trying to get rid of so outside in the woodshed you can see the hose
coming through the wall into the cyclone which is sitting underneath the vacuum the vacuum just
pulls the stuff into the cyclone which then drops into the bucket underneath you might be wondering
how on earth i managed to turn the vacuum on and off it's attached to an infrared socket controller
which was about eight or nine pounds i'll put the link in the description and it just has a remote
control that goes with it which means that i can just turn it on for every from everywhere i am
i glued some magnets to the back as well so i can just stick them to the tools that i'm working with
at the time these cheap plastic blast case you can find on amazon for about four or five pounds just
don't bother with them they're absolutely terrible when you pull the slider out it doesn't seal
properly and then because of the way it's designed you shut them and all the sawdust that you've been
sucking through that hasn't made it gets caught up in the gap and then you don't get a seal make your
own it's not hard i'll do a video probably on this at some point when i extend the system at the end
because it's a much easier project than you might think it is and you can get a really good result
from it too another thing that people worry about when they're doing this is static now on a massive
industrial system where you've got huge quantities of pvc pipe running over the place probably a
hundred millimeter or four inch diameter you may need to worry about static in which case
wrap a wire around the unit and earthing if you've got a system on this sort of scale
you probably don't need to worry about static you're certainly not going to be producing enough
sawdust to be able to ignite it which is what everybody worries about the last thing i would
say as a final tip is don't get sucked into the mistake of buying this enormously expensive
piping that you see everywhere shop around please check out some of the other videos on this channel
i have some other ones about dust extraction that you might find interesting if you've watched
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