I have been reading Bill Pentz’s wealth of dust collection information and have decided to do some upgrading to my shop to better protect myself from inhaling fine dust. For the smaller tools I plan to use a shop vacuum piped to different locations. Can anyone point me to actual fine dust collection testing for Bosch vacuum’s and tools? It seems the only manufacturer on the market providing an engineered system that deals with the sanding/routing… and the removal of the harmful fine dust is Festool, but I would like to consider the Bosch options for the obvious cost savings.
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Brad,
I actually use a combination of a central vacuum and shop vac with hepa filter. I then vacuum the shop vac and its pleated filter with the central vac. Hooking up one to the router and one to the router table works great (with small bits). Also use it while hand sanding, chiseling, cleaning up the bench and floor.
I've mentioned this solution a few times on this forum hoping to hear if there is anything wrong with this solution. The Beam (I don't sell 'em) has a maintenance free filter that clears itself (with a weight) and lives in the garage. My shop is in the basement. I never see dust on the exhaust muffler. Just empty the bucket into a nearby garbage can every once in a while. Best part: dust leaves the house and never comes back (like it does with other vacuums).
Wouldn't be a good price if only for the shop but I also use it for the house. :) (The shop inlet is closest the garage.)
Unless anyone knows a reason why this isn't a good long term solution, seems to have been working out really well.
Andy
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