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1. 
   roc | Sep 05, 2012 12:18am | #1

   Don't sand much and more hand tools

    I use one of these

   http://www.amazon.com/Fein-9-20-25-HEPA-9-Gallon-Vacuum/dp/B003INE4N0/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1346816226&sr=8-6&keywords=fein+vacuum

   and the large diameter hose for it.

   I don't use the HEPA just a paper bag.  The HEPA clogs for power tool woodworking.

   Mostly for my bandsaw.  If I used a table saw much it would probably over whelm the vac so then I would add one of the pre-filter things and a bucket to mount it on.

   http://www.amazon.com/Oneida-AXD000004-The-Dust-Deputy/dp/B002GZLCHM/ref=pd_cp_hi_0

   I like the Fein vacs because they are darned quiet.  I use a smaller Fein with the powered floor head  just for cleaning the house because I don't like all the noise of other home vacs if that tells you anything. 

   The next size up vac from the one I posted in the link is getting toward $600 so that is in the range of a real dust collector but then you will be buying ducting and putting it outside or in it's own room and suddenly you  are spending  thousands on dust control.

   For the most part a broom and a giant dust pan does it for daily work.  I use mostly hand tools.  Then when I occasionally resaw or use the router I temporarily hook up the shop vac.

   PS: if you get a chance to buy one of the older style Feins (which is what I have in the shop ; I have the newer one in the house ) they are even quieter.  The older ones don't have the motor speed/suction control which tends to growl a bit. when on the lower suction setting.

   
2. 
   Westchester | Sep 05, 2012 05:59am | #2

   Low Cost

   I have a box fan ( cost $ 15.00) with a furnace filter on the draw side.  Great when sanding - catches the light weight fine dust.

   SA

3. 
   ctsjr | Sep 05, 2012 09:22pm | #3

   Low cost dust collection

   I recently purchased a 1 1/2 hp dust collector for my shop, and so far I'm very pleased.  The Penn State Industries machine is lower in cost than comparable 1 1/2 hp machines plus it has a 1 micron cannister filter on top.  I added a trash can collector to make it into a two stage collector.  It's portable to hook up to my table saw, planer, jointer and router table.  It has a higher cfm than other machines in its class.  The machine was on sale when I bought it, plus I got free shipping.  With hoses and attachments, I've proabably got close to $500, but it's a great small shop solution.  Here's the link to the website.

    http://www.pennstateind.com/store/DC2V3CF.html

   Tom

1. 
   roc | Sep 06, 2012 12:02am | #4

   A couple of tips off the subject

   I usually compose my post in my word processor and paste the link in there and then cut and paste the whole mess into Knots.

   This makes the links work as buttons we can click on.

   http://www.pennstateind.com/store/DC2V3CF.html

   When cutting and pasting a button in this post making thing they have here the damd thing adds a space or two before the link and makes it just text and not a link.  If I then go and remove the space(s) often the link turns blue, when I click on "Post" at the bottom of the post making thing and it is a clickable link.

    http://www.pennstateind.com/store/DC2V3CF.html

   http://www.pennstateind.com/store/DC2V3CF.html

   Nuts huh ?

   PS: hang on I got to get one link that goes through and then copy and  paste it in here.

   PPS: extra huts ; the only way I could get yours to work was click on the blue clystal ball looking "Link" button in the tool bar and even then it didn't turn the link blue.

   Let me try one of my links to see if they have changed things :

    http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/

   http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/

   Yes . . . see how removing the space made the link a link and blue.  At least on my end.

   I'm tired now . . . I got to go lie down . . . all that took it out of me.

4. 
   RalphBarker | Sep 06, 2012 08:26am | #5

   Dust collection is . . .

    . . . never 100%. How close one gets to that depends on equipment, budget, and available space.

   My approach is to collect as much as I can at the machine with a vac, when it is practical to do so, and then a more efficient collection point in front of my lungs (i.e., a dust mask). The floor is my secondary, gravity-assisted collection point. I don't have a vac port on my table saw, since I haven't felt the need to build the interior baffles that would be required to make it even reasonably efficient. My bandsaw was built with a vac port near the bottom wheel, so I use that. The vac port I added to my router table is, perhaps, 50% efficient. I use a Festool TS-55, with guide rails, to cut sheet goods. Its dust collection is probably close to 95% efficient, using the Festool vac.

   A key factor in all of this, I think, is to balance between the suction of the vac and the available air flow near the futting edge of the tool.