The woodworking video podcast and blog of Al Navas

9 May

FineWoodworking.com: Dust collection

Posted in Blog, Safety by Al (Sandal Woods)




Dust collection (DC) is still an issue in my shop, as I don’t have a permanent DC system installed. But I do have all the dust and chip-generating machines hooked up. And it happens to be something remarkably similar to what FineWoodworking Magazine editor Asa Christiana uses. He shares simple strategies for taming dust and shows off the solution he’s arranged in his home shop.As Asa did, I also hooked up my ROS (random orbital sander) to the Shop Vac - what a difference it makes with one of the worst fine dust generators in the shop, always close to your lungs!

The good thing about this setup: Cost is kept to a minimum, and you can re-route the collection hoses as you need to, until you are ready for a permanent system. After three years, I think I am ready to install the permanent system - provided my back holds up…




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About Me

My name is Al Navas, and I live in NW Missouri with my bride of many years. We are both woodworkers who love to be in the shop together, sharing wonderful times. She is a woodturner, and also carves and does pyrography. I do what many call flat work, which includes jewelry boxes to blanket chests; armoires to entertainment centers; church altars to prayer kneelers; custom cabinets to rustic furniture. In our “spare” time in the shop we make toys, bird houses, etc., for our granddaughters. In late 2007 we finished serving as officers for the St Joseph Woodworkers Guild.