General Category > General Discussion
DUST EXTRACTION
chunkey monkey:
Can anyone recommend a half decent dust extractor , I have one that is like a jet engine when you switch it on, I have a Shepach unit!
My lathe room is about 8ft square so the unit would be outside the room, what setups do you guys have that you are happy with.
Bill21:
We use a small Camvac unit at our club and it’s quite quiet as it has a hose from the outlet into a home made “baffle” box and this really seems to help. A friend has a similar setup. Some folks just poke the outlet pipe outside though.
Twisted Trees:
I use a chip extractor in a separate building with 5" galvanise ducting this in turn uses a large cyclone which dumps direct into a 400 litre garden waste bin, not perfect, but quiet for me and the neighbours, and gets the dust and shavings out of my workshop.
seventhdevil:
this was my old set up and if i needed to have one again i'd get the same.
sadly no one seems to make the larger black cyclones any more so you may have to make your own.
the single bag extractor from axminster sucked 2000m3 per hour.
chunkey monkey:
Most of my problem would be finer dusts, most of my chips and shavings end up in a large container under the lathe, my extractor unit is outside the room but when switched on the noise is loud !!
I am considering buying a 12" portable fan ,like the ones we use in building work to expel dust from the room when you are demolishing a wall etc ,these I have used a lot and they sure expel the crap!
I would mount this in the roof space and duct it in 12" to the back of my workshop and outside, then bring the flexible 12" inlet into my craft room ceiling above the lathe and have it on a rise n fall cable to lower it to height above the lathe chuck.
These are relatively quiet units, and are about £100 ,light and portable and less energy consuming, I will borrow the one I've used for building work and give it a try in the next week! Thanks for all your reply's
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
Go to full version