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McRabbet
Thought you all might want to see a few pics of how I installed my duct collector in my shop. The 900 SF shop space is in an unfinished basement that is actually raised 5-0' above the ground, creating a large (and dry) "crawl" space. I installed my Penn State Dust Collector (DC1BXL; 1HP; 850 CFM) on a small platform and plugged it into a Shop Fox Remote Control unit on a GFI circuit. I ran 4" S&D PVC to a sweep elbow that emerges behind my 10" Grizzly 1023SLX tablesaw (the orange power cable in the picture supplies 240 Volt power to a floor outlet for the saw). The second pic shows the connection at the floor with flex hose to my chip collector, made from a plan in a Shop Notes for several years ago. Until I run the other duct branches and set up several blast gates to isolate various tools, I just connect my chip collector to my jointer or my planer. The chip collector works great and is very simple to make -- I jointed and planed about 60 BF of 4/4 birch for a recent cabinet project and emptied 5 large garbage bags from the chip barrel before I needed to empty the small bag on the DC. The $40 Remote Control works great, too.
More pics to come as I improve the system.
More pics to come as I improve the system.
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