Dust Extraction Advice

[jldesign]

I need to get an extraction system set up for my bandsaw/table saw soon to be coming in the post, what do you think is the best solution?

Is a shop vac sufficient for me to wheel around and connect when using the designated machine?

My small workshop is in a live/work unit, so I live there too, and want something which will be the healthiest option!

I would ideally like something which is as quiet as possible.

Budget.... upto £300?

Thanks a lot!

 

[Hudson Carpentry]

You might just get something decent with £300 if your planing to wheel it around the shop.

Closer to the £400 mark but will get you a decent setup
http://www.axminster.co.uk/numatic-numa ... rod826773/

Lower end.
http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-ax ... rod794272/

Im assuming your TS and BS both have 100mm duct ports, anything in between these two seem to take lower sided piping. Thats from axminster anyway i haven't looked anywhere else.

I have a fixed system which is powered by this, it can be wheeled around but once you buy a pipe your over your £300 budget.
http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-ax ... prod21168/

This one comes with the hose and clips
http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-ax ... prod21167/

 

[jldesign]

That Numatic NVD 750 is the front-runner as of now.

Is it quiet?

Any other recommendations anyone?

 

[wcndave]

my main recommendation would be to stop living in your workshop!

(unless you just mean you spend all your time there...)

I have a makkita 440 and set up 2,1/2" piping all over my worshop to all tools, with blast gates and adaptors galore (think i found 8 different attachment sizes required for my fixed machines alone)
using that plus the auto start feature means that now i can just lift one specific blast gate for a machine, and when i turn it on, the extraction comes on automatically, no trundling around and attaching things, which was taking a lot of time.

downside was that once i had done all the adaptors and jubilee clips and piping, it cost £200, plus of course £300 for the vac... still, lifelong investment that could also make my life longer...

a combination of rutlands and axminster got me everything, rutlands were much better on adaptors

 

[Hudson Carpentry]

I got all my stuff from axi and in total over 1k spend and still expanding. It is mainly steel 4" though. I found rutlands had little available and what was in was more expensive??

 

[wcndave]

Wow, that must be pretty heavy duty, does that include the extractor?

I had to get lots of adaptors due to combination of 4", 2", 2 1/2", 2 1/4", and 3 different metric values.... Rutlands had the lot.

the basis was this 2 1/2" kit

This allowed me to build blast gated ports at strategic fixed points around the wall.

I found the biggest unexpected cost was the flexible hose required between these points and my machines, as i needed them to be long enough to allow moving table saw (for example) out into centre of workshop for cutting panels (they are all on wheels). so I needed 8m odd of 63mm (2 1/2") hose, which was about £100 + adaptors etc...

 

[Hudson Carpentry]

Yes the flex hose is quite expensive. That price did include an extractor and many ali blast gates but a second extractor is required for power tools. Believe me if you saw it you wouldn't have thought its over a grands worth . It is a small commercial shop though for professional use. Lots of the cost is like you say adapters, stay put hoses & hoods. I probably need to spend another £500-600 more to complete it which does include another extractor.

I have 2 of the kits you posted a picture of. Have only used half of one up to yet and will be the ducting for the power tools and pillar drill. Everything else is 100mm.