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I have a Leda Dust Extractor that I sourced from auction several years ago, it has dual 100mm inlets and up until now I have just used it with flexible hose for two machines only (Table Saw and CNC Router.
I have been wanting to be able use other machines with it as well without having flexible hose all over the shed floor. I toyed with the idea of using PVC storm water pipe and fittings to set up a small extraction ducting system but the extractor fittings and PVC fittings are a mismatch when trying to join to one another.
A catalogue from the local woodworking store arrived this month and featured a clear tube dust extraction fitting kit on special, it appeared to have everything I needed to achieve what I wanted.
It has 900mm tubes, joiners, 90 and 45 degree bends, T pieces and blast gates for opening and closing different ducts. The plan was to run the rigid ducting vertically from the dust extractor then a 90 degree bend to the centre of the shed A frame and then straight down the middle of the shed through the other A frame truss, with 2 additional outlets along the way.
The new centre duct inlet is directly above my work table and I have put a 3 metre concertina flexible hose with a quick connect fitting attached and will utilise this for several places including Belt Sander, Band Saw and also to a Down Draft Sanding table that I am building now.
I also have a 100mm Floor Dust Wand and Hand Tool which I can use with that quick connect fitting to vacuum the floor or benches.
As you can probably see in the pictures I have a dust problem in the shed which also means I am probably breathing in that dust when not wearing a mask or respirator, there is a fine film of dust over everything and that is what I am trying to eliminate or at least cutting out as much as possible.
This is the Down Draft Sanding table that I have made (I will do a seperate topic of that build) I will sand my projects on this table and the dust will be sucked down through the pegboard and into the dust extractor.
