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Dewalt 735 Planer & Dust Collection

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
Got the DeWalt 735 planer and made a Thien baffle for a separator. Don't have a dust collector, but use a good shop vac. Works quite well enough for everything in my shop except for the 735 because it pumps the chips out with a powerful blower. The lid on my separator is heavy and the container is a blue plastic 50 gallon drum with the top cut off. I have the separator lid bungeed to the mobile cart I made to hold the lid down tighter to the drum, but the pressure from the planer blower is great enough to blow a little dust out at the edges. I know that a shop vac is not recommended for the planer, but I'm wondering if a dust collector (I'm thinking of the Harbor Freight 2hp) would overcome the blower and hold the lid down and keep the dust in or if I would continue to have the same leaking I'm currently having. Just wondered if any of you have a setup with a 2hp collector, 4" hose, Thien baffle on separator, and the DeWalt 735. If so, does the lid stay down and the dust stay in? Before I drop the money on such a setup, it would be nice to know if it would solve my little problem. Thanks for the replies!
 
#4 ·
I'm using an HD shop vac with a trash can separator on the 735 and it is working great. 2 1/2 in from vac to separator 4 in from planer to separator. Its catching all the chips and the majority of the dust. getting very little dust in the vac filter.
 
#6 ·
I have the HF 2HP DC with a Thein Top Hat pre-seperator, 4" metal ducting (20' metal, 3' flex hose) serving my DW735. I have no problems, with the system.

I have several blogs containing pictures & info:
Thein Build Blog
HF 2HP DC Modification Blog
Running Shop Ducting Blog

Just a few pictures, of my setup…..

Thein Pre-seperator & "Hot Rod" HF 2HP DC:
Cylinder Gas Machine Scientific instrument Nickel


Shop Duct work:
Pipeline transport Gas Composite material Electricity Engineering


DW735 Planer Blast Gate & Ducting:
Motor vehicle Vehicle Engineering Gas Machine
 

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#7 ·
Wow - just what I was looking for! Great information and pictures always help. Sounds like I should have no problem with an HF collector. Mine will be a mobile unit and rolled to each individual tool. Sure would be nice to have everything stationary with duct work to each tool. Thanks for all the replies!
 
#8 ·
I actually run my 735 without a DC or vacuum. The planer is on a cart with a removable chip "bucket". A hose drops directly into the chip bucket and has a furnace filter on one side to allow air to exit. It collects 99% of the chips and dust and works better than I expected.
 
#9 · (Edited by Moderator)
My chip collector is almost 8 years old. I have to admit that she isn't very efficient, and seems to be the most expensive item in my collection, but when she smiles and asks "When can we do the next project?" it makes it all worthwhile…

Okay, that was too corny. I normally just setup the planer to blow the chips on my driveway and sweep up the new micro-mulch for use in my gardens, but I have had some success with connecting my 735 to my shop vac without using the vac motor and have had decent results.
 
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Geez - that's some amazing contraption! Could you say more about how you actually constructed that? Looks pretty cool. How do you remove the drum when you empty the chips and how does the cloth cover stay in place for a good seal around the drum. Looks very interesting. My shop vac arrangement works - shall we say - well enough, but I'd like to keep all the dust in the drum. You guys that use the dust collector - does the lid stay tight and not leak dust when the planer comes on? If I would grow up and get in the 21st century, I'd take a pic of my little system and post it. I like all the photos you guys have put up - worth a thousand words you know. Any other set-up photos? The more the better! Thanks everyone…
 
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Well after see the dust collector on LJ so I made my own out of a 35gl cardboard drum fien it when the wife toke me yardsaleing got it for 5 dollar's and the cloth came from locel business that throw it away but here is some pic's. so frist you need a picie of cloth 61 3/4"long and 5 feet tall but you can make it shorter and sowe to gather and the top take the lied on the cloth and make a ciocle ha round the lied and cut it out and sowe it to your sock now the 4" hole flexy pipe would be great but I had was stove pipe but any way you need a picie of cloth 14" by 24" and sowe that togather and cut out a hole where you need it and sowe the end to the sock mahe sure that lucking collar come's with drum that is what hods the sock on and yes it hod dust. Sorry guys I not that good at this but I hope this help holer if you need help.
 

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#17 ·
Marty- I have the weather stripping in the drawer and haven't gotten around to putting it on yet. I think I'll give that a try before I go any further. Seems like once you start building things, you can't seem to get all your equipment tweaked too. I can't seem to get all the projects done and get my shop completed at the same time. Can anyone relate? Thanks for all the great replies!
 
#19 ·
sorry to post a reply on an old thread but i have a 735 and am looking for a dust collection solution. I went to home depot and was looking for some flex hose or ducting that fit over the 2.75" port on the back. I was hoping to find something that could be reduced on the other end to 2.25" for my shop vac. Any suggestions please let me know.
 
#20 ·
I have this planer hooked up to my Grizzly two horse power dust collection system and it works well. Before I had the dust collector I ran the planer hose to a trash can with a bag that attached to the top of the trash can with a draw string. It is a DeWalt accessory and it works well also.
 
#21 ·
I've had the DW735 for about 2 years now and I love it with the exception of the dust collection. I connect a 4" hose to a trash can separator and then on the the DC. I could never figure out why, even with the lid bungeed down, I would always have a huge collection of chips around the trash can. One day, I happened to be looking at the can when I turned the planer on and watched as the system 'pressurized'! the lid lifted up and I could see chips and dust coming out from all around the lid.

Now I hook it up straight to the DC and put up with the pain of having the lower bag fill up quicker. Better that that having to clean up a pile of chips every time I plane.

If anyone can offer suggestions, I'd appreciate it.
 
#22 ·
As the original poster on this thread I will say that a lot of great ideas were posted here. Thanks everyone! I ended up taking the cheap way out and kept my original system with a shop vac and the 50 gallon plastic drum with a solid plywood - heavy - homemade Thien lid and baffle. Simply adding weather stripping where the lid contacts the drum solved the fine dust leak instantly. Simple and low $$. Very happy. May upgrade to a dust collector someday, but for now, problem solved…
 
#23 ·
I have this planer hooked up to my Grizzly two horse power dust collection system and it works well. Before I had the dust collector I ran the planer hose to a trash can with a bag that attached to the top of the trash can with a draw string. It is a DeWalt accessory and it works well also.

- Jim Finn
I've been trying to find that dewalt trash can cover and can't find one. Where did you find it?
 
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