3/4 horsepower Jet dust collector

[mearmellino]

Woodworker's Warehouse has a special on the 3/4 horsepower Jet dust
collector at under $150. Do you folks out there think that's adequate
power for a couple of lathes and a bandsaw? I'd probably be getting a
finer mesh bag for it, possibly a cyclone chip collector.

TIA

[Kevin Neelley]

I have a friend who bought the same collector and he says that he can't even
use it to vacuum. He's very sorry that he bought it. It seems to only
collect dust (as advertized) but no chips.

Kevin

mearmellino wrote in message <37B61848...@worldnet.att.net>...

[Rkniemiec]

i looked at that one, and ended up buying the 2hp, 220v 1200cfm model. i have
a home shop and only use one machine at a time, but the ductwork eats up cfm,
and frankly the extra power is worth the money. if budget is an issue, any
dustcollector is better than none. i also built a filtering unit from some 5
micron 3M furnace filters and an old furnace blower, which takes all the fine
dust out of the air. I put it next to the lathe when sanding and it does a
fine job. good luck.

[Thaler and Thomas]

Greeting,

I bought the little Jet 650 dust collector.

I then replaced the bags with Oneida bags.
To hold the Oneida bags on, I used a pair
of cheap rachetting straps (the kind used for tying things
down on a truck. For hanging the top bag, I used a piece of
1/2 inch electrical conduit bent into an L shape and bolted
to the side of the dust collector using regular 1/2 conduit
brackets. The nuts have nylon inserts so they will not
loosen due to the dust collector's vibration.

For a hose I tried a length of flexible drain pipe
but it resonated like a whistle. I spent the extra money for
a length of flexible dust collector pipe.

I connect it to my table saw by shoving the pipe into a hole in the side of
a box I built onto the bottom of the saw.

I connect it to the band saw by shoving it into an pipe elbow connector.
The other end of the elbow fits into a wood collar.
Screws in the collar connect it to the elbow and to the bandsaw over a hole
cut in the lower door.

A length of flexible pipe from the lathe goes to a spot near the
dust collector, table saw, and bandsaw. Loops of wire suspend it from the
garage rafters. At the lathe I position it in the best position for
that minute and hold it in place with a bungy cord.
It does not collect all the chips but does a very good job on the dust.

The short hose from the dust collector gets plugged into whatever
I want to collect dust from.

For remote control, I bought a kit, (from Klingspor or Woodcraft)
consisting of a pocket transmitter, an outlet
that receives commands from a signal on the AC power line, and a
receiver that receives the pocket transmitter and re-sends the
command on the AC power lines. You can buy the same stuff for
more money from Radio Shack.

Sincerely,
Bill Thomas

[Bill Brachhold]

I have the 1 HP Jet and it is a frigging joke ! Don't buy less than 2 HP,
unless you are going to have the DC close to the tool that creates the
dust.

Bill

mearm...@worldnet.att.net (mearmellino) wrote in
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[Rkola]

I've got the Jet 650 cfm unit, and it works great in my application. My "shop"
doubles as the parking space for SWMBO's wheels, as well as all of the stuff
that any garage accumulates. All of my WW machines are on wheels, as is the
dust collector, and I usually have only one (sometimes two) machines in
position to do actual work at any one time. I don't have any fixed plumbing on
the DC, and the flex hose gets moved to whichever machine is next to use. in
this application it handles the dust and chip collection duties of table saw,
6" jointer, planer/molder, router table, bandsaw, and lathe. If I ever get a
dedicated shop space, with fixed tool placement, I'll probably get a bigger
unit, and plumb for dust collection.

Ron Kolakowski