Dust collector attachment for 12 " thickness planer

I believe that a 6” round register vent (rectangular vent to 6” round) slides right into place with little work.

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“I’ll work!”

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Hmmm . . . register vent, HVAC aisle at home center. Sounds like good ideas. I think I’ll make a trip to Lowe’s and Home Depot this afternoon. Thanks guys.! Any other thoughts guys?

Rufus

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Rufus,

How did this workout for you? I recently found a old Belsaw 905 that I’m getting setup

I made a hood for my Belsaw jointer/planer out of plywood.

3 pieces joined together with pocket-hole screws and glue…
just drill a hole and stick a hose in it and voila!

A couple of rare-earth magnets make it sort of “click” into place.

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Loren,

Any pix showing yours? Thanks.

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My stuff is sort of in storage. I’m doing no woodworking right now.
Just writing and consulting so I have no tools set up… nor
ease of digging stuff out for picture-taking.

I guess I’m participating here to get a “contact high” off the
people who are actually building stuff right now.

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I just made a hood for my ryobi 10in planer. I used 1/8 in hard board. Glue and nail blocks on the inside. Cut out a hole that fits the end of my vac hose. Works great. Just a lil yankee ingenuity.

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Hi Adrian,
Any possibility to post a pic here? I’m interested in knowing how it’s attached to the planer? Tks.

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I went to Lowe’s and Home Depot looking for something workable in the heating vent department but didn’t find anything I really liked. As I have welding equipment and other metal working equipment including a shear and a pinch roller I finally just bought a sheet of .031 steel from Lowe’s and decided to cobble up something from scratch. I have a design worked out but I haven’t gotten around to the actual construction yet as I am still working on rebuilding my workshop. I hope to get it done before too long.

Rufus

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I saw a picture after bumping this post, where someone cut into the original shroud over the cutter head and put a rectangular duct there.

I don’t have the original shroud so I have open possibilities if i can shape the sheet metal right. Of course I have a sheet metal shop about a mile from my house, so maybe they can help.

You could also try purchasing a hood from another planer of similar size and adapting it with sheet metal and pop rivets. Try the online parts suppliers for DeWalt, Rigid, Delta, etc… by Googling “DeWalt Parts”, etc…

I have a local DeWalt service center where I picked up a DW733 dust hood for ! $5 to use on another tool.

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The Belsaw is a bit different from the modern portable planers. Its the more industrial design like the larger “stationary” planers where the bed moves and the cutter head is stationary.

Once you remove the sheet metal top you expose the top of the cutter head. My 905 actually has a jointer bed option attached to it, where there used to be a solid top with a pork chop and fence along with some adjusting setups that made it a 12” jointer. I only have the framework unfortunately, nothing else.

I think the rectangular vent style addon attached to a new sheet metal hood is how I’m going to go. This way the DC is pulling directly over the cutter head.

How all I have to do is finish my 90 other projects and I can get this thing working.