Ducting

[artie]

Since I am in the process of sprucing up "the shop" I am going to improve the dust extraction.

Looking for suggestions for 100mm ducting and fixings.

 

[WellsWood]

http://www.ductstore.co.uk/

No contest.

 

[Krysstel]

Or here http://www.dustspares.co.uk/

Especially since they've got a sale on :wink:

Mark

 

[tomouse]

Or use plastic/waste drainage pipe......... It's loads cheaper, easy to fit and easy to find all the elbows, joints and bits you need.

Also a choice of colours

 

[adidat]

another vote for waste pipe, i did the workshop i work in about six months ago in it, had one blockage, with quite heavy use. Easy to unjam, with flexi hosing going to the machines.

adidat

 

[artie]

I was at the builders suppliers today and while I was there I priced plastic 100mm pipe.

To my surprise it was more expensive than spiral tube from duct supplies.

Maybe I was looking at the wrong stuff.

 

[adidat]

20 quid for 2x3m lengths from screwfix?

adidat

 

[artie]

I can't find it. Any chance of a link.?

 

[adidat]

sorry that was excluding vat btw

http://www.screwfix.com/p/single-socket ... of-2/56187

adidat

 

[WellsWood]

sorry that was excluding vat btw

http://www.screwfix.com/p/single-socket ... of-2/56187

adidat

Pretty good, but still dearer than spiral galvanised. And when you come to a corner you're looking at a tenner instead of 3 or 4 quid. Theres also a static issue with plastic.

 

[artie]

two 3m lengths of spiral would be £30.96 with vat but the bends are half the price <>.

Price isn't everything I know. And my job will be small, which would be the best to use if price didn't come into it.?

 

[WellsWood]

Well if price has nothing to do with it use whatever you like, makes little difference to performance in the scheme of things. I like the spiral stuff because it fits straight onto blast gates with no messing about. Bear in mind the plastic waste pipe isn't 100mm but 110mm, so you will need to work out how to connect it to machines and extractors with standard 100mm spigots. It's not insurmountable I'll grant you, but just adds in another layer of things to do - and I am inherantly lazy .

 

[Doug B]

Don't know how big your workshop is artie but mine is 28' x 9' & a couple of years ago I took out all my ducting both 100mm & 60mm as I found it more hassle than it was worth.
I just have one long flexible 100mm hose that reaches every machine now the beauty of which is if it isn't attached it can't be sucking, sounds daft but with the ducted blast gate system I lost count of the times I forgot to open & close the right gates only realising when the shop was full of dust.
It also means as my needs change in the workshop I'm not fixed to one layout, this shop is ten years old & still evolving, having a fixed ducting I found just too restrictive in what is quite a small workshop.

Just my tenpennth

 

[artie]

I like the spiral stuff because it fits straight onto blast gates with no messing about. Bear in mind the plastic waste pipe isn't 100mm but 110mm, so you will need to work out how to connect it to machines and extractors with standard 100mm spigots.

I noticed that and it needs taking in to consideration. I wonder if ductspares and ductstores products are interchangeable