WHAT DUST

[coach]

Thought I would show some slatwall waste.
This is from 5 panels of 32 slats at 60". 1 3/8" wide bit. Also filled up the extractor bag every 5 panels.
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[gc3]

Geez that looks bad, your lungs among other things are not going to be healthy for long...must be a you know what to clean up that mess



Gene Crain
www.plantasymaderas.com

[coach]

ya Gene, it was a you know what to clean.
Cutting along the 8' was not an issue as I had an extractor at the end and the dust shot into the accessory attachment.
But cutting along the Y axis had no way to get anything in there. I told customer more notice if he wants more cut in that direction as I need several days to devise a way to catch that killer dust.

[coach]

O ya,,,,,I am open to any ideas as how to get extraction in that area.
Thanks for any ideas.
David

[mims]

seems you could get a small dust shroud or find an adjustable metal angle duct and rig it to the carriage, so it would be in line with the spindle at the edge of the table and travel up and down the table with it. anything would be better than nothing. Doesn't have to be $$ and elegant.

[dray]

OMG... alot of dust!

Here our simple dust collection system

$80 ebay cyclone. 2 vacuums from harbor freight.


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[servant74]

http://www.cgallery.com/jpthien/cy.htm
and the associated forums at http://www.cgallery.com/smf/index.php?board=1.0 (plans are on the forum) would make a reasonably 'cheap' dust collector cyclone type collector. Not a good as ClearVue I am guessing but a lot less expensive and reasonably adequate.

That much dust makes me squirm, just thinking of the possibilities for problems.

[chiloquinruss]

I think you guys are missing his point. He does not have a general dust collection problem. It's just when he's cutting slat wall with a slat wall bit. The 'hole/slot' that the bit makes traps the resulting saw dust from escaping into a regular dust collector. What he needs is some sort of specialty collector that will suck the dust from inside the slat in the wall. At least that what I think he is asking for. Russ

[servant74]

Russ, thanks for clarifying that for me. I read it and probably saw what I was expecting to see instead of what was really written. My ADD gets me that way some days.

[jerry_stanek]

I think I would use a duct cross and run three pickups off the main trunk with one hose at each end of my Y and the trird one down to the dust foot.