KY Chris
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Any suggestions on a homeowner/hobbiest model? I need something more than a shop vac. I see Jet/Delta/Grizzly. Who else makes one that's decent? 110v, preferably.
Woodworkers...dust collectors?
- Thread starter KY Chris
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Get the biggest one you can afford or run on the power you have.
Us kids bought Dad one a couple of years ago, a Delta 110v, IIRC. Takes a full 20A to run it. It's made Mom VERY happy, he's not tracking dust from the garage into the house.
And if you're going to hook it up to a planer, get one of the garbage can lids to separate out the big stuff before the collector.
Us kids bought Dad one a couple of years ago, a Delta 110v, IIRC. Takes a full 20A to run it. It's made Mom VERY happy, he's not tracking dust from the garage into the house.
And if you're going to hook it up to a planer, get one of the garbage can lids to separate out the big stuff before the collector.
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- Clarkdale, AZ
Chris, I've been using a Delta 50-179 for about 16 years now. 3/4 hp, 550 cfm, two stage. Many of the others, even much more expensive ones, are single stage, where everything goes thru the fan. This one goes thru a barrel with a deflector that drops all the big stuff in the barrel, then the fine stuff goes thru the fan and into the bag. I don't know if they still make the same model, but I know I recently saw a similar one, and also a seperate lid for a standard garbage can that does the two stage thing for any dust collector. The 550 cfm works great on my radial arm saw, router table, planer, and molder. It works fairly well on the table saw, but that has too many openings for the adjustment controls to pull enough air thru the blade opening to pick up everything. It does pick up the fine stuff, which is most important. HTH and see ya at Winterfest :cheers:
KY Chris
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- Louisville, KY
The *dust* is what I'm most concerned about. I don't have a planer, yet, just a jointer. My main dust makers are my radial arm and table saw. I usually hook the random orbital sander up to the shop vac, which does ok. I have an older (early 80's ) Craftsman tablesaw that I was gonna enclose beneath. 2 stage would be sweet, but for now I'm just battling the furnace in the basement which is in the middle of my shop.
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Until you get some heavier machinery that are real dust and chip makers, it soulds like you couold really benefit from an ambient air cleaner.
I use a JDS variable speed, but I bought that back when delta was making garbage....I really like what delta has been turning out lately, and think thier new ambient air cleaners are pretty neat.
swap the pleated paper filter with an electrostatic washabe filter.
I am using a JET 1150 and swapped out the upper bag for one that filters down to 1 micron. I have the whole shop plumbed in 4" galv duct and pvc for point-of-use dust/chip collection using blast gates. I use my planer and jointer a ton, and those you know are chip hogs....I let my jet take big chips. It has a heavy duty impeller, and can take it, I can't see any reason to take up room on the floor for TWO seprate chip or dust containers.
it all goes in one spot anyway....in the compostor for next years gardening.
I use a JDS variable speed, but I bought that back when delta was making garbage....I really like what delta has been turning out lately, and think thier new ambient air cleaners are pretty neat.
swap the pleated paper filter with an electrostatic washabe filter.
I am using a JET 1150 and swapped out the upper bag for one that filters down to 1 micron. I have the whole shop plumbed in 4" galv duct and pvc for point-of-use dust/chip collection using blast gates. I use my planer and jointer a ton, and those you know are chip hogs....I let my jet take big chips. It has a heavy duty impeller, and can take it, I can't see any reason to take up room on the floor for TWO seprate chip or dust containers.
it all goes in one spot anyway....in the compostor for next years gardening.
