Dust Collection outside

[yorkie]

I want to vent my lathe through my workshop wall to the outside. What's the setup for this? I have a Jet 1250cfm dust collector in my workshop already but the fumes from CA and CA accelerant etc., are getting nauseous at times.

What's your setup?

Thanks.

 

[Justturnin]

So what you are looking to do is vent fumes during finishing and not dust? I have been debateing 2 large attic fans in the roof of my shop. You could close something like that in and run piping to you DC pipes w/ som blast gates make it so it is only sucking through the tube by the lathe. You can also open it up and take the compressor to the shop and blow all of the loose dust up and it will suck it out. The cloud may upset the neighbors though.

 

[warreng8170]

Hey Stephen, I got your other message, but I figured I would post here in case anyone else wanted to comment. I used a dryer vent connector to go through the wall. My dust collector sits outside so it pulls the dust, chips and fumes.

 

[yorkie]

Thanks, Warren.

Hey Stephen, I got your other message, but I figured I would post here in case anyone else wanted to comment. I used a dryer vent connector to go through the wall. My dust collector sits outside so it pulls the dust, chips and fumes.

 

[hunter-27]

Hey Stephen, I got your other message, but I figured I would post here in case anyone else wanted to comment. I used a dryer vent connector to go through the wall. My dust collector sits outside so it pulls the dust, chips and fumes.

I wish it worked that way for me but in the early spring/late fall/winter it would also pull out the heat from my shop. In the summer that would be no issue but I can't afford to heat the entire county. I need to find a better internal system than I currently have. I am just not sure how to go about it.

 

[dogcatcher]

I wish it worked that way for me but in the early spring/late fall/winter it would also pull out the heat from my shop. In the summer that would be no issue but I can't afford to heat the entire county. I need to find a better internal system than I currently have. I am just not sure how to go about it.

Only way I know of is to set up a separate exhaust fan to the outside, that you would use only when you use CA. You would still lose some heat, but not all of the time like when the dust collector is working.

 

[yorkie]

I like that idea, as I'm already set up
With my dust collection system. Any recommendation of fan?

I wish it worked that way for me but in the early spring/late fall/winter it would also pull out the heat from my shop. In the summer that would be no issue but I can't afford to heat the entire county. I need to find a better internal system than I currently have. I am just not sure how to go about it.

Only way I know of is to set up a separate exhaust fan to the outside, that you would use only when you use CA. You would still lose some heat, but not all of the time like when the dust collector is working.

 

[ctubbs]

Just an idea as I haven't tried it myself, but how about running the DC with a activated carbon filter to catch the CA fumes? A box could be built with the filter inside with a DC inlet and outlet on the other side of the filter so the Dc would pull the fumes through the filter. That way the heated/ air conditioned air would stay in the shop but the nasty fumes would be neutralized. Just a starting point of an idea.
Charles

 

[dogcatcher]

I like that idea, as I'm already set up
With my dust collection system. Any recommendation of fan?

On the inside of clothes dryers there is a squirrel cage that will suck air, it is the exhaust fan. Fairly quite, quite enough that some woodcarvers use them as inside of the house dust collectors. All you should have to do is box it in add a collection hose and vent it outside. make sure you put a dryer vent flap in the outside, or you will have visitors.