As most know dust management is high up on most lists nowadays and I have just spent 500+ on a M-rated extractor for our in-house joiner and the unit is great as its mobile. We have hooked it up to a cyclone in his small work shop so he should be fine now.
My own domestic setup was very basic using a cheapo hoover and I kept changing bags forever so decided to up the system a bit. As much as I wanted to buy the 500 unit I still want to stay married so got myself a NILFISK. Initially I thought I could throw in a M-rated filter to keep things really clean but that turned out to be a no-no. A bit of thinking got me to buy a seperate filter and then 3D print a fixing for it to sit on the exhaust air (see pic) so I now have my M rated unit at a much lower price
. So far so good. The Nilfisk have electic pick-up too which is great for the Mitre saw but as most of what I use is 18V I realised I need a way to kick start the unit so I have solved this by buying a remote controlled plug in socket and added a plug in bulb trigger it, light on and extractor starts - bingo ! (You need a bulb of some ommph ie LED is no good). Overall happy with this setup (and the cyclone) and its flexible enough to move about.
My own domestic setup was very basic using a cheapo hoover and I kept changing bags forever so decided to up the system a bit. As much as I wanted to buy the 500 unit I still want to stay married so got myself a NILFISK. Initially I thought I could throw in a M-rated filter to keep things really clean but that turned out to be a no-no. A bit of thinking got me to buy a seperate filter and then 3D print a fixing for it to sit on the exhaust air (see pic) so I now have my M rated unit at a much lower price
. So far so good. The Nilfisk have electic pick-up too which is great for the Mitre saw but as most of what I use is 18V I realised I need a way to kick start the unit so I have solved this by buying a remote controlled plug in socket and added a plug in bulb trigger it, light on and extractor starts - bingo ! (You need a bulb of some ommph ie LED is no good). Overall happy with this setup (and the cyclone) and its flexible enough to move about.
