Wood Dust Collection

[username2]

Speaking of an enclosure system..and I've never used one so I'm not sure on this...but it seems to me you could build a pretty cool thing like that for a planer. Completely surround it and maybe use flexible skirts for the top of the work piece.

I don't doubt those gizmos throw off a lot of kruft.

edit: Use dense materials (and/or laminated materials of different densities) and a good acrylic viewport and you could attenuate the sound quite a lot.

No doubt someone has already built this 100 times over.

 

[RTM]

My planers built in works well. I imagine a joiner would be harder.

 

[Hack Fabrication]

My planers built in works well. I imagine a joiner would be harder.

Yes, my DeWalt 735's blower really does a good job. And it's got enough force to support it's own trashcan lid separator.

The homemade system on my old Craftsman joiner works very good:

It's constructed of 1/2 plywood, and keeps the chips from flying everywhere. As a rule most joiners have fairly decent chip collection, especially those with cabinets below them. Neither my joiner nor planer puts out a lot of fine dust. But both will produce a massive amount of wood chips and course sawdust.

I changed over the basic caster wheel setup to something a bit more stable:

In my basement shop, floor space is a premium. So I need to be able to move machines around. Having four casters keeps the turning radius down considerably.

 

[motoretro]

When doing woodwork in the past, I had a Penn State Collector hooked up to the table saw, planer and joiner. I used a Jet air cleaner mounted high up on the long wall of my garage. Both of these had improved filters added. When running the equipment, I wore a 3M 7500 respirator w/ P100 filters. I worked with garage door open and since equipment was on wheels, everything was moved to door opening. Once done, dust collector was turned off, I vac'ed the equipment & myself off completely, mopped the floor and put everything back in place. This usually took 20-25 minutes. At this point, I turned off the air cleaner and pulled the mask. I was comfortable w/ this, the air "smelled" clean. I have some lung issues and any wood dust is a problem for me. I'm sure this sounds like overkill although it's the only method I could find that allowed me to finish off some projects.

 

[Hack Fabrication]

I'm sure this sounds like overkill.

Not overkill if it works for you.

I pretty much do the same in my basement shop, but I only wear the mask when sanding. Oh, and that reminds me, I need to budget some time to mop the floor down there....

 

[Oregon rock crusher]

For the most part I always tried to do nearly all of my wood work outside mostly because of the dust problem. With a new shop addition, mostly for wood working, I ended up building it elevated like a deck. The plan is to put the dust system down below the deck with four or so collection ports coming up through the floor near some support columns.

I think some kind of large bin for a primary collection and outdoor exhaust. The wood stove and a large shop vac will go down there too so I may have a secondary use for some of the chips. A down draft work/sanding table should help with fine dust but I still plan to open the windows and doors and work outside on nice days. A couple pics. Ed.

 

[jar944]

Jar
Now that looks like a real working shop.
I’d put a marker on the ceiling showing where your jointer is located you sure as hell don’t want to loose it. Appears you have a separate room for assembling and gluing. Are you a bonafide cabinet maker earning a living from your trade?

My shop is better equipped than the typical "garage woodshop" but that's all it really is. It is just set up similar to a one man production cabinet shop. My day job is totally unrelated corporate management.

 

[acer66]

For the most part I always tried to do nearly all of my wood work outside mostly because of the dust problem. With a new shop addition, mostly for wood working, I ended up building it elevated like a deck. The plan is to put the dust system down below the deck with four or so collection ports coming up through the floor near some support columns.

I think some kind of large bin for a primary collection and outdoor exhaust. The wood stove and a large shop vac will go down there too so I may have a secondary use for some of the chips. A down draft work/sanding table should help with fine dust but I still plan to open the windows and doors and work outside on nice days. A couple pics. Ed.

Very cool steampunk like look.

Since you are coming from underneath with the dust collection I wonder if can create a sort of light down draft effect with vent openings in the floor so the light dust in the air gets pulled down away from you and have make up air coming form up higher similar to an hvac system.

 

[brianh]

Brian.
I don’t know if I will go with the 2 stack. But I’m thinking of a separator as I like the idea of keeping the filters easier to maintain. Do you feel you lost any appreciable amount of CFM? I like your gates probably will try to duplicate, hope you are good with that.

No, flow rate is good, it will pull hickory chips from the 20 inch planer with another gate open i did put 2 coats of sealer on the box and weatherstripped the door.

I can post my cad drawing for the blast gate.