dust collection on a Wadkin BOA/S 12 planer/jointer?

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Martin_H

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All,

I'm looking at buying an old Wadkin BOA/S 12 planer/jointer to go with my WAdkin AGS10 tablesaw. I cant seem to find anything on the internet about dust collection on this machine. Any one ever produced one? Is it worth the hassle of building it out of wood / sheet metal ?

Kind regards,
Martin
 
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I need to get rid of this out of my workshop if you want to PM me, its 3Phase. just noticed your in Belgium, oops
 
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I used to have a BAOS and like most people I just built a kind of plywood box that connected to a dust extractor, the box sat underneath when planing and sat on top when thicknessing, worked quite well, definitely worth doing.
 
I'd second a plywood box, I based mine on a low profile vent to 100mm ducting. Ideally you want it as low profile as possible if you want to minimise a lot of moving the thicknessing table up and down as you switch between planing and thicknessing.

It is definitely worth the effort, it's a few minutes work to knock the hood up and the amount of chippings the BAOS can create in short order is phenomenal.
 
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