Google sound proofing and sound insulation. I'm sure with a littlesearching you can find the right stuff.Update 1/15/09: see Why The New Unisaw Is A Great Saw in WoodNet > A great write up by a well respected member of WoodNet.Īlso see An Inside Look at Delta’s Tennessee Unisaw Plant from the Popular Woodworking Blog. If you can put your hand over the sawblade hole (blade down, power off) and feel the suction, your airtight, if not seal it up.īy the way, a wet/dry vac has been my only source of suction and has worked well once the tool i'm using it on is sealed up.ĬHARLES- Make a box to put the motor in and soundproof it with insulation for misic studios and home. There are ceiling tiles, foam boards, insulation panels, and foam that I'm sure would do the trick. Seal them up and the only air coming in is by the blade. Too many guys don't know there is space between the base and tabletop, open doors and holes in the base. JOHN- Your zero clearance saw blade insert is part of the cause of that dust but not the culprit. If you want your dust collection to act like a vacuum then you need to seal up your tablesaw base like a vacuum. That means AIRTIGHT.
It will circulate the air in the shop kinda like a full room circular fan and take out the small stuff. You could make a wood frame to mount it all in too. WAYNE a 19 inch box fan (20.00) and a really fine 1 micron furnace filter or 2  (orange box store) taped or screwed to the inlet side of a fan works well. Mount it up at ceiling wall corner blowing down a side wall. Guys sometimes you need to go old school. It supposedly covers about 200 sq feet and I have it hanging down from the ceiling about as center of the garage/shop. My problem with it is I don't think it has powerful enough motor but do believe it would work just fine if it was on table next to you.Īs far the table saw, since I broke the little plastic in front of the guard it been spitting dust in my face. I just need to sit down and order that part. Hopefully I will next few weeks The small vac I basically use it for general clean up on the table saw and miter saw and I'll connect the hose on it to all my sanders. I also have this thing dust in my face.  I think I got about 85 % of the dust problems work out in my garage / shop. I have no DC as such but do have one 16 gallon 6.25 hp Rigid shop/wet vac, one 16 gallon 6 hp Rigid shop/wet vac, one 12 gallon 4.25 hp Rigid shop/wet vac and a little Rigid shop vac ( I think it 5 gallon.) The three big vac does fairly well on all the tools I have except the Grizzly table saw and the 10 inch compound sliding miter saw. 'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G.
Like Cliff, I filter a lot through my lungs.and nose hairs. Also have a 1.5 hp small DC that I can wheel around to machines like the V Sander, Oscillating sander and stationary belt sanders. galvanized trash can with a "Cyclone" type plastic lid serves as the primary collection point and collector vane protector. I use a HF 2hp and vent it do the outside. But, the best collector is a bag my wife made that hooks to the underside of the jointer with Rare Earth magnets. The scroll saw dust just gets blown on to the floor.
The router table has integral dust collection in the fence and it takes a shop vac hose. I built a BIIGG GULP from a 33 gallon plastic storage tub and a toilet flange that serves the SCMS. Need above the table saw collection, though. Planer has a 4" dust port, as does the band saw and table saw.