Rob Cheetham
Established Member
Hey. Im wanting to make a ducting system through my small shop to save having to have trailing hoses. Its only a small shop 5.5m x 3.2m
I have a few questions that I would like to know as I dont fully understand all things air flow etc. My questions are:
* What is the best material to use for ducting? Galvanised steel, pvc, stainless steel etc?
* Is it best to put two 45 bends together to make a 90 to reduce sharp bends in system?
* With an estimated run of about 12m how much does air flow reduce over certain distances?
I plan on doing a drop down to my table saw, P/T, band saw and router table each with a 90 bend consiting of two 45 connectors to reduce the sharpness of the bend. All drop downs to a tool will have blast gates installed also.
My extractor is the axminster ap154ceh cyclone and has an airflow spec of 941 cfm at 150mm or 778 cfm at 100mm. It has a 150mm adapter which breaks down to two 100mm outlets. I really only want to be using 100mm pipe so will use the 150mm - 100mm adpater.
My table saw requires min 550cfm
My PT requires min 588cfm
Unsure on my band saw and router table but I would think it would be about the same.
Table saw is a laguna fusion 3, pt is a axminster ap260spt spiral block, band saw is record power bs400 and my router table is the axminster ujk table set up with axminster router box underneath housing a trend router.
Any help on all this would be greatly apprciated. Also any links to websites or youtube videos with good info would be great too. Thanks for reading and look forward to any information you can chuck my way.
TIA
I have a few questions that I would like to know as I dont fully understand all things air flow etc. My questions are:
* What is the best material to use for ducting? Galvanised steel, pvc, stainless steel etc?
* Is it best to put two 45 bends together to make a 90 to reduce sharp bends in system?
* With an estimated run of about 12m how much does air flow reduce over certain distances?
I plan on doing a drop down to my table saw, P/T, band saw and router table each with a 90 bend consiting of two 45 connectors to reduce the sharpness of the bend. All drop downs to a tool will have blast gates installed also.
My extractor is the axminster ap154ceh cyclone and has an airflow spec of 941 cfm at 150mm or 778 cfm at 100mm. It has a 150mm adapter which breaks down to two 100mm outlets. I really only want to be using 100mm pipe so will use the 150mm - 100mm adpater.
My table saw requires min 550cfm
My PT requires min 588cfm
Unsure on my band saw and router table but I would think it would be about the same.
Table saw is a laguna fusion 3, pt is a axminster ap260spt spiral block, band saw is record power bs400 and my router table is the axminster ujk table set up with axminster router box underneath housing a trend router.
Any help on all this would be greatly apprciated. Also any links to websites or youtube videos with good info would be great too. Thanks for reading and look forward to any information you can chuck my way.
TIA