I’ve seen several references to ground your saw dust collector and here in the desert there’s plenty of static. Question is, how do you do it? I have a Jet, portable with one house that I bring to the planer, tablesaw, shaper, bandsaw as needed. Can anyone tell me if it’s possible to ground a portable collection system such as this? Thanks
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Grounding plastic hose
All of your machines should be grounded. If you are using flexible VC hose, you will not b able to ground it completely. This link will take you to Dr. Rod Coles's discussion of the subject.
http://home.comcast.net/~rodec/woodworking/articles/DC_myths.html
You can wrap copper wire around the outside to try an minimize some of the annoying shocks to yourself if it bothers you. I only experience static shocks when using the open end to vacuum up dust piles that I have swept up.
Don
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