Dust Collection 101

I use Penn State.

-- Bruce from Central New York

go to http://woodworker.com and search for FAZLOK … this is a quick connect system for 4” and 2 1/2” tools and hoses. Great if you move your DC around to various tools. Check it out.

-- Nicky

Dano, the easy (read as cheap) is a 4” hose conector. This will slide inside thw Y and the size convertor. I don’t know what your shop is like but if you have open rafter you can run a hose over the top, this has plenty of guts to pull everything up. My personel preferance would be to run a 4” intake hose with your size adapter on the end of the hose. you will not need a 4” hose connector but you will need a 2 1/2 hose connector. your choice. And yes they should really do A better job with id/od descriptions.

-- RTB. "dumb animals are not stupid they simply can't talk "

With things I have read, keeping the larger diameter hose for as much of the dust collection run works best for dust collection. As RTB says, put the 2 1/2” adaptor on the end of the hose (closest to power tool). This helps to keep the large and fine dust suspended and moving to the dust collector as it should.

As far as getting the fittings I needed, I made a trip to the woodworking store to buy the fittings, so I knew they were what I wanted/needed.

Dalec

For what it is worth, I use standard 4” ABS (black) pipe and fittings (available at home centers) for my main lines (with a bare copper wire run on the inside to discharge static electricity), and interface the ends of the lines (to a machine or to the dust collector) using flexible hose fittings, which just happen to fit snugly in the 4” ABS.

To interface to a machine, I fit 4 inch ABS Blast Gate into the ABS pipe, and use a Quick Disconnect Fitting to connect the 4” flexible hose. To connect directly to a flexible hose (no blast gate), I fit a 4 inch Splice Dust Extraction Fitting into the ABS pipe.

I wish I had some pictures. Reading back what I wrote, it sounds more complicated than it really is.

-- If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, who will cut it up into bowl blanks?

I recently bought a Delta DC also. Which, for now I roll around to my tools. I got my accessories from Rockler. I did not add a 2 1/2” hose I went directly from a 4 inch flexible hose to my equipment using there 4” to 2 1/2” adaptor and for me they work great.

-- Doug, Cass City, Michigan