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Originally Posted by Greg Needel
A shop vac is not a dust collector, actually they are not even in the same ball park
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Greg, can you elaborate on this a little bit more? At home, I use my shop vac as a dust collector for my band saw and belt sander, moving the hose from tool to tool. I have found that some particles remain in the band saw housing, and the suction at the belt sander is so high that I have lost workpieces into the vacuum box. It's nothing like my Dad's shop, where he has a decent 'particle collector' (with filter bags in the several dozen micron range) but it's in a different section of the shop so we're not breathing it. That system (hard-plumbed, with automatic-switching blast gates) works pretty nicely.
The gearbox can be anything, just as long as it weighs less than 0 lbs, and yes, I'm talking about negative weight here. - NoodleKnight [more] 
07-10-2010, 20:45
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