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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Scroll Saw Dust Capture
« on: January 26, 2021, 12:03:05 pm »
My 18" Jet is designed for dust collection. My ever-indulgent wife got me the small dust collector Seyco sells (Steve has a link over to Seyco on the blog). I went ahead and got it with their universal adapter which would definitely work for you. It's just a small vacuum nozzle (the wide flat kind) on a flex arm. You plug the hose into it, use the attached clamp to attach it to your stand, and then position the nozzle under your table where it can suck in the dust without being in the way. I wound up switching to using my built-in setup by simply wrapping enough duct tape around the end of the hose to make it fit my saw's connector.
The vacuum is one meant for copier repair guys - it's scary powerful. The included cyclone gets almost all of the dust and I seldom have to change the small bag in the vacuum. It is a bit noisy though - I wear ear muffs while working. But that's partly because I have some hearing damage from sitting next to dot-matrix printers in the 1980's and the small amount of noise a scroll saw makes is similar enough to the noise from a dot-matrix printer to cause me problems. If I want to shoot video, or demo to someone I just turn the vacuum off.
It does make a huge difference in dust levels! I can always tell when the bag is getting clogged (never gets full, just gets clogged with the stuff that's fine enough to get past the cyclone) or when my inlet gets plugged with the small bits that fall down by how dusty my car is getting. I set up in my garage right in front of my car and normally it's just a little dusty from what gets blown off the top of the wood.
Yes, there will be some dust that escapes the system. Steve runs a woodshop air filter that hangs up near the ceiling and collects all the suspended dust. I'd like to, but no space or funds.
Hopefully some of the others will chime in with their advice and experience.
KCSteve :->
The vacuum is one meant for copier repair guys - it's scary powerful. The included cyclone gets almost all of the dust and I seldom have to change the small bag in the vacuum. It is a bit noisy though - I wear ear muffs while working. But that's partly because I have some hearing damage from sitting next to dot-matrix printers in the 1980's and the small amount of noise a scroll saw makes is similar enough to the noise from a dot-matrix printer to cause me problems. If I want to shoot video, or demo to someone I just turn the vacuum off.
It does make a huge difference in dust levels! I can always tell when the bag is getting clogged (never gets full, just gets clogged with the stuff that's fine enough to get past the cyclone) or when my inlet gets plugged with the small bits that fall down by how dusty my car is getting. I set up in my garage right in front of my car and normally it's just a little dusty from what gets blown off the top of the wood.
Yes, there will be some dust that escapes the system. Steve runs a woodshop air filter that hangs up near the ceiling and collects all the suspended dust. I'd like to, but no space or funds.
Hopefully some of the others will chime in with their advice and experience.
KCSteve :->