Tom Gall
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Regular (fly) screening probably inhibits maximum air movement. I have a section of 1/2" hardware cloth over my opening.
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Holding and Positioning Your Dust Hood
- Thread starter Walter Mooney
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If you want it for collecting sanding dust, use 2 1/2" Loc-Line. It is self supporting, adjustable to any position and stays there. I mounted it using electrical strut channel from Lowes. I also mounted a light using the same strut channel, and I'm going to mount the monitor for my video hollower when I get a chance. Loc-Line 24" long can be purchased at Amazon for under $30. Had to turn a coupler to connect the shop vac to Loc-Line, but otherwise it was a simple installation.
Tom Gall
TOTW Team
@Dave Mueller Is that used with a shop vac or dust collector? Most dust collectors that I'm familiar with have 4-6"ø hoses & fittings. Shop vacs are noisy and could overheat with continued use.
I have a plastic dust hood held up by a microphone gooseneck like this:
The gooseneck is mounted to the lathe stand with a flange mount:
The hood is connected with a small adapter piece fastened with a bolt to a hole drilled in the hood:
The gooseneck is mounted to the lathe stand with a flange mount:
The hood is connected with a small adapter piece fastened with a bolt to a hole drilled in the hood:
Anybody have a solution for the front of lathe? When I am turning the outside of a bowl all the dust chips etc shoot in the opposite direction as my dust hood. Behind the lathe I have a 6” port attached to a 38” tv bracket attched to a metal pole near the cage mount.
Dust collection doesn't work well for chips. There are way to many unless turning small items. It is best used when sanding.
I clean up chips using a snow shovel and put them in 65 gallon trash bags.
I can confirm this! When I first started I used my old shop vac.. one day it started billowing dark black smoke. I took it to the driveway to cool down and took apart. The armature wrapping was roasted
Hi Walter. I'll add a couple of pictures to this old thread, just to keep it interesting. I have an old Rockler dust intake that I used for years at a sanding lathe, and I've attached it to the wall behind my turning lathe. I'm not sure if the part is still available from the source, since things come in and go out of fashion.
I'm typically make dozens of same-sized parts in runs, in the current case handles for custom coffee scoops made from upcycled steam radiator vents. That means that I can keep the same setup for weeks at a time, once I have a setup that works for the specific size part I'm making. I have the dust hose connected to a small Dust Deputy and a stand-alone vacuum because the main shop Clear Vue is overkill for the small amount of dust I get from turning those small spindles.
I'm typically make dozens of same-sized parts in runs, in the current case handles for custom coffee scoops made from upcycled steam radiator vents. That means that I can keep the same setup for weeks at a time, once I have a setup that works for the specific size part I'm making. I have the dust hose connected to a small Dust Deputy and a stand-alone vacuum because the main shop Clear Vue is overkill for the small amount of dust I get from turning those small spindles.
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I thought I'd add my version of a dust hood here as I found AAW forum when searching for ideas for my own dust hood solution. I wanted something that could be moved out of the way or along the bed and, having seen something similar on Glen Lucas's YouTube channel, figured I could build something for an awful lot less than the several hundred pounds his system would cost.
I had a Manfrotto magic arm left over from my time working in the film world so that is the adjustable arm. It's clamped to an old towel rail that was in the 'it'll come in useful one day' box. The bell mouth is 3D printed in sections and glued together, I modified a design I found on Printables.com and scaled to fit the 125mm ducting I use for the dust collection.
That just left a way to hold the hose/bellmouth securely. I ended up designing the black part from scratch. I'm a complete novice with 3d design and used Tinkercad, an online 3d design package built for school kids. You select individual shapes and scale them to fit, the trick was putting them together in the correct order so that the recesses and handle were in the right place before inserting the blank hole through the middle of it all and grouping it to create a single object. I was really pleased that it came out spot on first time off the printer.
The bell mouth is a good friction fit so it can be removed from the duct if needed. As I already had the various bits in boxes, it just cost me a couple of quid for the PETG 3d printing filament.
I had a Manfrotto magic arm left over from my time working in the film world so that is the adjustable arm. It's clamped to an old towel rail that was in the 'it'll come in useful one day' box. The bell mouth is 3D printed in sections and glued together, I modified a design I found on Printables.com and scaled to fit the 125mm ducting I use for the dust collection.
That just left a way to hold the hose/bellmouth securely. I ended up designing the black part from scratch. I'm a complete novice with 3d design and used Tinkercad, an online 3d design package built for school kids. You select individual shapes and scale them to fit, the trick was putting them together in the correct order so that the recesses and handle were in the right place before inserting the blank hole through the middle of it all and grouping it to create a single object. I was really pleased that it came out spot on first time off the printer.
The bell mouth is a good friction fit so it can be removed from the duct if needed. As I already had the various bits in boxes, it just cost me a couple of quid for the PETG 3d printing filament.
Thanks for posting this! I have been using an old Manfrotto magic arm clamped to a 2x4. This is much more adjustable as you can move it along the rail. I will be on the lookout for a rail now.
Kudos to you! It really amazes me how few of us turners have actually turned our own bell mouth!
an old thread relives! Might as well add to it. I have a homemade lathe stand and this is screwed into it. The DC can slid on the track to accomdate any place I am turning. 
This is what i did. I have a number of hoods i tried (including a Big Gulp) and they all worked well. That stand is one of HF's roller extenstion stands, I just removed the roller. I should point out I only use this when sanding, I don't try to collect the chips.