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  1. #1
    Join Date
    Jan 2002
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    Melbourne, Aus.
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    Default Keeping the dust down with an electric planer

    As time goes by increasing exposure to wood dust is getting up the ole schnoz.

    I do woodturning and like to clean up the shavings which go everywhere after a bowl turning session. Both to keep the mind clear for the next session and to get rid of the dust. Even a couple of weeks might go by and just walking into the shed causes sneezing and a runny nose now with some timbers if not vacc'd up.

    When blocking down spindle blanks out of green or salvaged timber I use an electric planer to get two square sides to put through the bandy. The bag that came with the planer fills in a minute.

    This is a fix that might be useful to others:

    The shop vac has a 2" hose with some tapering hard tubes. One of these fits nicely into the vac bag hole on the planer, with some minor mods. So the vac sits on a shelf under the bench, and I fire it up when using the planer. With a modest feed rate it sucks the shavings out of the planer.

    It's not a perfect fix by any means. If the stock is narrower than the blades then there's still shavings kicked out on the bench. Which happens anyway with the bag.
    Cheers, Ern

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Jan 2004
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    Sunshine Coast. Qld
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    79
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    I do the same thing with the 50mm hose from my DC
    David L
    One of the great crowd beyond the bloom of youth on the Sunshine Coast

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