There has been a thread on another forum on Dust Collection Fixtures. Thought I would post my solution here for the good of the order:
OK, attached is the picture of my dust collection. Features:
- Aluminum shop light shade commonly available at HW stores
- Dryer vent hose to give a bit of rigidity for placement. May change over to regular ribbed hose it it doesn't hold up
- Cut open the shade with snips to make tabs and an opening to fit hose and taped on. Used Aluminum duct tape (not the cheap stuff) inside and out.
- Made "Banjo" with long slot for positioning and adjustable clamping to ways.
- "Shade" fixed by plastic plumbers tape to height adjustable 1-1/4 dowel. Friction fit to hole in Banjo to move up and down. Top 2/3 of the hole is oversize, only bottom part is friction fit to ease adjustment. Sanded to fine tune. Could make a "Squeeze" collar with a band saw slot and tightening knob. But friction fit works fine.
- Removes easily, but mostly is tucked out of the way well back, or against headstock.
- The hose goes overhead to a gated dust collection port to my central Oneida system. Stand alone system would work too. Need high volume, low vacuum, dust collection to be effective.
I guess that's it. Works great. Not too pretty. Can't have everything. You might want to make the banjo a bit longer than I did, but it is a tradeoff between clearance from your work and your belly button.
Alternative that should work well would be to put a horizontal pipe or bar off of that headstock bracket and fix the same set up to it, providing for adjustment up and down. This wouldn't clutter up the ways. The pipe could also hold flexible arm lighting. But I believe the banjo solution provides a wider range of adjustment and location.
OK, attached is the picture of my dust collection. Features:
- Aluminum shop light shade commonly available at HW stores
- Dryer vent hose to give a bit of rigidity for placement. May change over to regular ribbed hose it it doesn't hold up
- Cut open the shade with snips to make tabs and an opening to fit hose and taped on. Used Aluminum duct tape (not the cheap stuff) inside and out.
- Made "Banjo" with long slot for positioning and adjustable clamping to ways.
- "Shade" fixed by plastic plumbers tape to height adjustable 1-1/4 dowel. Friction fit to hole in Banjo to move up and down. Top 2/3 of the hole is oversize, only bottom part is friction fit to ease adjustment. Sanded to fine tune. Could make a "Squeeze" collar with a band saw slot and tightening knob. But friction fit works fine.
- Removes easily, but mostly is tucked out of the way well back, or against headstock.
- The hose goes overhead to a gated dust collection port to my central Oneida system. Stand alone system would work too. Need high volume, low vacuum, dust collection to be effective.
I guess that's it. Works great. Not too pretty. Can't have everything. You might want to make the banjo a bit longer than I did, but it is a tradeoff between clearance from your work and your belly button.
Alternative that should work well would be to put a horizontal pipe or bar off of that headstock bracket and fix the same set up to it, providing for adjustment up and down. This wouldn't clutter up the ways. The pipe could also hold flexible arm lighting. But I believe the banjo solution provides a wider range of adjustment and location.
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