how's it going guys welcome back to the patriot diy channel
today in the shot we're going to be talking about how to set up your dust collection
there are a lot of different ways to manage dust in your shop so in this video we're going to
talk about how to set up your dust collection how to run ductwork around your shop to each
tool and how we set everything up but before we do that guys if you haven't done it yet
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the dust collector i decided to go with is one that i think a lot of other people are using
and that's the central machine two horsepower dust collector from harbor freight and if you
saw our last video you saw how we mounted that to the wall and we did several upgrades to improve
the functionality of that if you haven't seen that video i'll put a link to that right here
at the top of the screen now there are a lot of ways to run ductwork around your shop but
what i found was the cheapest and the easiest to use was pvc pipe it's readily available and
it's cheap there are a couple different kinds of pvc pipe you're going to come across one
is schedule 40 and that's going to have a really thick wall on it what we decided to use was this
sewage or drain pipe pvc it's a lot thinner walled easier to work with and a lot cheaper
i'll show you guys how i routed the duct work in my shop it was kind of a trial and error process
finding the right fittings and the right placement for everything and one suggestion i have to you is
to really plan it out and go ahead and test fit it out on the floor before you put everything up
on the wall to hopefully prevent having to make too many changes as you're going through that
so
like i said we do have a video on how we set all this up so make sure you check that out but let's
talk about the individual components and what they do so to really get the most out of your system we
decided to go with a cyclone separator the one we decided to go with is the oneida super dust deputy
and what that's going to do for you is as your collector brings in all that dust and all those
chips they're going to spin around inside this cyclone and the larger chips and larger dust is
going to drop down into your collection bin the reason that's important is it's going to extend
the life of your filter and without a separator those things could get clogged up and filled up
really really fast so the cyclone is going to separate out most of our dust and our big chips
and stuff like that and that really fine dust is going to be pumped back up and through our filter
the filter that we're using is a canister filter from wind environmental now that's going to be a
huge improvement from those filter bags that you see in most dust collectors for one this filter is
going to filter down to one microns so it's going to take out most of that extra fine dust that
finds its way back out of your dust collector and into the air and eventually into your lungs which
can be very dangerous for you also these pleated canister filters have the ability to let out a
larger volume of air which is important because your dust collector can only suck in the amount of
air that it can exhale and so a canister filter is not only going to filter out that extra fine dust
keeping your shop clean and keeping you safe it's also going to improve the suction of whatever dust
collector you happen to be using and of course any dust that does get trapped in that canister has to
go somewhere so on the bottom of that we mounted a five gallon bucket on a gamma seal lid so any dust
that gets trapped by that filter can drop down into this bucket and keep in mind since we're
using a separator there's going to be very little dust that actually makes it down into that most
of that is going to end up in our collection bin now because our dust collector is mounted high up
on the wall we also mounted this aftermarket on off switch that's routed up to the motor just to
get it down and more accessible i know a lot of guys like to use remote systems for their
dust collectors for most of the workstations in my shop i'm never too far away so a switch like
this works out great for me so i will put a link to this in the description below as well as to a
couple different remote systems if you'd rather have a remote me personally anything that has
a remote i'm probably just going to lose it now i'm not going to get too deep in how we set all
this up because we did that in the other video so now let's get on and take a look at our ductwork
we came directly out of our cyclone into a splitter this is going to split that five-inch
connection into two four inch connections and as you can see we have our ductwork that goes up
and is distributed around the shop and then we have another drop here that goes down to our flex
hose it was important for me to have duct work that was routed to all my tools but i also wanted
to be able to clean up any excess dust that did make its way onto my bench tops or onto the floor
so that's what this is here i have about 40 foot of four inch flex hose just coiled up here that i
can use with these accessories from powertek the first one i have here is a floor sweep
that is really nice to have because all i have to do is hook this up and i can just vacuum up
all that dust off the floor one thing i hate is having to sweep in the shop because while you're
sweeping you're also kicking up a bunch of dust that's going to go everywhere and land on every
surface in your shop another attachment i got from powertech is this benchtop wand so all i
have to do is hook this up so i can just quickly go over and clean up any mess on my workbenches
powertech also supplies these clips that you can mount on the wall so you can easily mount
your tools up on the wall and out of the way and they are super easy to grab whenever you need them
the other thing i did just to keep all this organized is i mounted this rack up on the wall
to coil that hose around this is something like you can find at your local home improvement store
or walmart typically used to hang up bicycles or ladders or things like that on your wall and
that worked out perfect for coiling up our hose on the wall the other thing i did just to keep this
up and off the floor is i just mounted a four inch flange here on the wall and the tool end
of that hose fits nicely over that and just keeps it up and out of the way one thing you'll notice
is that for every drop and every tool in the shop we do have one of these blast gates from powertech
these have worked out great for me and it's important to get the most performance that
you shut off anything that you're not using and you only open the blast gate for the area
that you need another thing you'll notice about our ductwork is that we don't use any 90 degree
angles every joint in our system is going to be either a 45 or a y so we do as much as we can
not to choke out that system so we can get as much air flow as possible we want as many straight runs
and gentle curves as we can get the tightest curve we have in our shop is going to be in this corner
right here while we are making a 90 degree turn there in that corner what we use to create that
is two 45s with a short length of pipe in between to make it a little bit more of a gradual turn
you can see we have our long straight runs up high on the wall and then at every drop we have a y
that drops down at a 45 degree angle down to another 45 degree fitting and then straight down
to our blast gate and our tool in areas that i needed to i use that metal banding to hold
up our pipe but over here on this wall of the shop we lucked out and i was able to use these supports
here to hold up my pipe without having to use any other types of fasteners to hold it to the wall
then down over here we have that 45 that drops down to our floor sweep and then beyond that we
just terminated it with a cap on the end another thing you'll notice is that for every joint we
didn't use any pvc adhesive for any of this we just dry fit everything together which gives
it a pretty nice tight friction fit anyway but we did go back and use duct tape just to seal that up
even better and also since it's not glued we did put a screw into each joint so that we don't have
to worry about them coming apart over time and one thing that's really great about doing it this way
is that nothing is permanent it all can be taken apart and rerouted and reused in any way we need
to in the future another important thing we did is we wanted to use as little flex hose as possible
we wanted to bring that pvc duct work as close to each tool as we can and use a minimal amount
of that flexible hose now the flexible hose is great but those ridges can cause some resistance
in your airflow and you want to minimize that as much as possible now one thing i did want
to mention about using this pvc drain pipe is that while it is cheaper and pretty easy to use
it can be a little bit of trial and error finding all the fittings and stuff like that that actually
work with the pipe you're using one thing we found was that most of the fittings and accessories that
we're using were pretty close to fitting but they weren't perfect so one trick that we use
was to just wrap a few layers of duct tape around each of those blast gates and some of those other
fittings to help us get a nice tight seal inside of that pvc pipe the way i have this set up here
for my band saw is really nice the blast gate is right here really easy to get to i just open that
up i also have my band saw on a rolling cart so if i need to i can roll this out to work on
whatever i need to has just a very short section of flex hose there to allow me some movement
and then whenever i'm done i just push it back and close that gate another feature we incorporated
into our system that i was really excited about is this floor sweep here from powertech this thing is
great because any sweeping that you have to do in your shop you can just sweep it over
to this you can sweep it right into that floor sweep and it's going to suck it up and send it
on to your collection bin now for this we just ran our pvc pipe all the way down to the floor
with our powertech floor sweep fitting on the bottom and then here at about waist height we
also put in a blast gate so that we can shut that off and open it up whenever we need to
now one of the worst tools in my shop for dust collection is this cobalt miter saw right here
this thing has terrible stock dust collection and i do have some plans to build a shroud right here
to really improve that dust collection so make sure you stay tuned for that but you can see
the way i have this routed right now is i have this drop that comes down at a 45 and then drops
down here i put all my blast gates about waist height which is working out pretty good for me
and you can see we have a short section of flex hose here that goes down below our bench
and then another straight section of pvc that goes here to a splitter that reduces that four inch
into two two and a half inch now one of those goes up to the stock dust collection on the miter saw
the other i have blocked off right now and that's going to be going to that shroud i was telling you
about and as you can see going over here to the other side of the shop we have some duct work
going up and around our lumber rack and then back down here to a y i really like the idea of using
a y here at the bottom of your drops that way you can service two tools off of one drop right now we
have one that's going to be going to my rigid belt sander i'm just waiting on some fittings for that
and another going to this rigid piece of hose that goes down and services my drill press and this
flex hose here is also just friction fit onto that blast gate that way i can remove it and i can use
this drop to service other tools as well now let's see how well this does actually collect and dust
now i know at this point in the video a lot of you guys are probably wondering what am i doing
about my table saw and as you can see i'm still using just a regular eight-foot fold-out table
as an outfeed right now that is going to change very soon and i'm going to be building
a table saw workbench that's going to have its own integrated dust collection
so make sure you stay tuned for that for my smaller tools like sanders and track saw and
things like that i'm still going to be using the dust right dust separator paired with my shop vac
another important part of our dust collection system is this air filtration system from wind
now your dust collector running duct work to your tools is going to hopefully get most of that large
chips and most of the dust and if you build it out like we did hopefully there won't be too much
fine dust in the air but just in case it's nice to have an air filtration system like this one here
this filtration system from wind has a hepa filter that's going to filter the air down to 0.5 microns
and any dust that make does make it into the air during your projects is hopefully going to
get sucked up through this filtration system and that's going to push out some nice clean air for
you to breathe the wind filtration system does come with a remote so you can turn it on and off
you can also adjust the fan speed and you can set a timer so you can set it to run for one
hour two hours four hours or as long as you're going to be in the shop all right guys that is
it for how to install your dust collection system and route your ductwork in your shop
i hope this video helped you out guys if you have any questions or suggestions make
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