My Dust Collection System

excellent... thats what i'd love to have in my shop...

where about can you get a blower like that..?
- also, is the system very loud to run...

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Patrice, I said it before, I think your system is perfect. The way you describe designing the system is spot on. Any sort of traps, filters, etc. cut down flow and then require a much larger blower, piping, etc. For a small shop, you got it right.

Good job!
Alden :thumbup:
 
Greg, this blower is made by General in Canada:

http://www.general.ca/

They sell in many Home Depot types stores or stores dedicated to woodworking. You should easily find one not too far from you. It was sold with a plastic tube and a bag for dust collection which I don't use of course. It was about 200$ CA.
It is a little noisy but in the same range as the grinder for example so I wear hearing protection anyway. Of course in a perfect world I would mount it in an enclosure outside.

Thanks Alden, I learned a lot doing it.

Patrice
 
Cool stuff, Patrice.

The other shop tips brought back memories... my great-grandpa had a whole shelf in his garage lined with small jars for parts and whatnot, just like your example. :thumbup:
 
Am I correct that I cannot use my woodworking dust colection system at all for metal grinding due to the fire hazard? It is grounded, but has wood dust in it. I need to put a water bucket below the grinder, especially for titanium, and just sweep? I also have a furnace blower in a box that sucks the air through furnace filters, that I assume I can't use. Correct?
 
It's only a fire hazard if it has the wood dust in an area where sparks could get to. Many people also make different variations where there is a water area, and the sparks have no where else but fall in there, and any dust can get vacuumed up without an issue.
 
EdgeCraft, I wouldn't use the same collection system for wood and steel. I once sanded a couple wooden handles on my old cheapo grinder, neglected to clean the wood dust out from behind/under it, and ground some steel the next night. Guess what happened? :o :foot:

Depending on your system, it MAY be that any sparks from grinding metal are cool enough to not be a problem once they get through the ducts, etc. Sparks do cool down pretty fast, being so tiny. But then again, if you have wood dust inside the ducts, which seems very likely, it would be an issue.

Perhaps you could use the same blower, but different ducting from your wood-working machines and the ones you use for metal-working? I suspect that would allow the sparks to cool down before they come in contact with easily-lit wood dust.
 
thank you Patrice

i'm definitely going to pick one of these up... very cool

Greg




Patrice Lemée;6709993 said:
Greg, this blower is made by General in Canada:

http://www.general.ca/

They sell in many Home Depot types stores or stores dedicated to woodworking. You should easily find one not too far from you. It was sold with a plastic tube and a bag for dust collection which I don't use of course. It was about 200$ CA.
It is a little noisy but in the same range as the grinder for example so I wear hearing protection anyway. Of course in a perfect world I would mount it in an enclosure outside.

Thanks Alden, I learned a lot doing it.

Patrice
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EdgeCraft said:
Am I correct that I cannot use my woodworking dust colection system at all for metal grinding due to the fire hazard? It is grounded, but has wood dust in it. I need to put a water bucket below the grinder, especially for titanium, and just sweep? I also have a furnace blower in a box that sucks the air through furnace filters, that I assume I can't use. Correct?
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A water bucket and sweeping will not do the trick. I may be a little paranoid but I would take the safe route and get seperate systems myself.

Greg, they also make a 3/4 HP unit at a lower price, something like 120$. If I was to do it again I would buy two of those instead or 2 of the 1HP type to separate wood from metal.
If you have any questions don't hesitate.

Patrice
 
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