The surprising thing I learned about keeping my shop clean

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[josephjankowski]

Excellent video on dust collection. This is probably the best one I've seen on youtube. There are so many misleading videos out there that seem to steer people towards these big high flow units with 4" pipe for "real" dust collection, when that is probably totally unnecessary for their home shops, where all of their tools have small ports anyway. A shop vac with a cyclone and a hepa filter is probably fine for most people with small garage shops using typical weekender tools. I had to sort through a lot of videos to figure that out, but yours covered all of the essentials about dust collection in a really concise way. Kudos. I should have watched your video first! It would have saved me a lot of time and research!

[foos.]

I’ve never heard anyone explain dust collection like this. It makes so much more sense now.

[joelrob]

Bonjour et pour cette vidéo : EXCELLENTE.

[warrensmith]

Interesting. I've always had a small ish shop. When I owned a plainer, Some 4" hose, connected to a 3.5 hp heavily modified shopvac to take that size hose, the vac then sat on top of a cement form 4' tube with a heavy duty big plastic bag on the inside capturing the chips. Worked wonders.

In my smaller retirement shop, I have a dust separator, before my 5 hp vac which is on a i-vac box, that hooks to my 2.5" hose for my table saw and router table, with a blast gate to my 1.5" hose with a 27mm ending that is12' long. At the other side of my shop, I have a 1.25" 2 hp bucket shopvac that is portable for the drill press and to clean up in the house when needed from changes made there. The only tool I have a dust collection problem with is the table saw. Been working on that beasty for years, and it still spews sawdust everywhere. BTW, my 20" box fan with a air filter tied to it, captures an amazing amount of in-the-air fine partials. I also replace the filters in my 3M dust mask every year as well.

In my old shop, I had 3 different vacuum systems depending on the tools I was using. Example, The plainer and router table got the 4" Frank-in-vac, The miter saw had its own, and everything else used a 4" main to a home built separator with various outlets. that ran down the middle of my shop using grounded PVC pipe. Used a stick to open and close gates as needed.

Solved the plastic gate jamming problem by cutting the ends off and putting tape over them. That way when they clogged, I just undid the tape, worked the gate a few times, blow them out with air, and retaped them.

[hansangb]

@7:45 A $20 box fax with an air filter (HEPA or close to it) also works GREAT.

[ThomasBui]

In the first two minutes, you explained what I had learned from gathering research on my own over the last couple of weeks.

[stevenbaker]

The best simple explanation I have seen. Thumbs up.

[jvmiller]

hey my man that without a doubt is one of the best videos I have ever seen on dust collection. I am in the process of swapping to a small central collector. Those auto gates are stupid expensive. I am going to make my own that use a small air cylinder and solenoid to open and close. Amazon sells a $14 dollar sensor that goes on a power cord to activate the solenoid and also turn on my blower. All total It should be around 35 to 40 bucks each. Diy in me always wants to find a cheaper way. we will see. But great video. I just added a 12 in planer to my shop so it is time.

[rexcowan]

nicely done and explained. I bought the ubiquitous HF Dust collector. I mounted it outside my shop and ran the duct through the wall. My wife was not pleased lol. It works. Every point you made including static shocks is point on. Plastic gates suck. I am retired and have lung issues so the floating dust is an issue for m. I 3-D printed a forced air helmet for using with my lathe and other dust producing machines. Along with the 4 inch dust collection, it is enough for my shop ( 12 X 24 ). Seriously thinking about one of those box fan filters though. I can hang it from my shop ceiling and maybe improve a little more.

[GK-qzcm]

Thanks for the great video. Very timely for me in that I am in the process of building my 24’ x 32’ wood shop. This really helps me to finalize how to run my duct for the Powermatic 3 hp dust collector I have. My dust collector has a 8” and 3 4” outlets capability. I am planning on having my main line the 8” duct and the off to 6” to 4” at the machines. Again thanks for your insights.

[woodworksbygrampies]

Hola! 🖐I really like how you packed in so much info into a concise presentation. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. Take care and have a good one, Adios!👊

[Andyloveswood]

There is yet another option for blast gaates. There are several designed for shop-made gates that avoid the problem of dust building up and blocking the sliding part of the gate. I watched a bunch of YT videos, and settled on Jonathan Katz-Moses' design. He sells router templates for making 2-inch or 4-inch. For the most part, I'm happy with this choice.

[rolandkuhn]

Very good overview on dust collection.

[omarc_br]

Dust collection is always a great topic to discuss. No matter how many (good) videos I watch I always learn something new. Thanks for sharing!

[sabregunner]

this is a good video with lots of good info. i have looked into turning the extra stall in my garage to a small workshop. going with flex hose to a 2.5 powertec clear pvc pipe to a dust collector with cyclone filter and a shop vac

[rickthompson]

I use a rigid 6.5 hp with a dust stopper dust collector with a bag in the vacuum. Pretty inexpensive and seems to work good. Makes cleanup time shorter and far less dust in the garage. Next I am going to build a filter system with 4 filters and a caterpillar fan.

[ifiwooddesigns]

Great! Great! Great video explaining all the different types of collection systems. I do use both a shop vac and dust collector depending on which tool I use. Also enjoyed your bit of humor you threw in. Keep up the great work.

[coderyder]

What a great video and very timely for me. I've considered going to the stage 1 dust collector but I don't have any tools that have a 4" port. Your tool will tell you. Thanks dude!

[dukeengine]

With PVC avoid static electricity by grounding it simply applying copper self adhesive tape along the ducts to a ground 🙏🏻🌞

[C-M-E]

I've watched a few dozen of these videos hoping I'd see an equally crazy fool as myself doing something unorthodox. Looks like I'm pretty close! One massive caveat for the hose to port ratio is when you get a tool with a tiny port that completely overpowers said chute and demands you step up to a real solution. Enter my dilemma with a CNC...
Did One (1!!) cut sequence over 30 minutes to certify that I'd hooked everything up right, stuffed the ol shop vac hose in the dust boot, and wow, I was Not prepared for how many chips, dust and general destruction that thing can throw out. I ended up standing there manually running the hose as close as I could and my shop was Still choked out, necessitating a quick reach to the respirator.
Ended up putting everything on pause until a more serious dust collector arrives!