Overhead dust collection boom?

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sorcerertd

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I am looking to make an articulating arm for a 4" dust collection hose. The arms should be easy, but does anyone have suggestions for moving, lockable joints?
 
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It seems like I have seen a bunch of those recently in the magazine. I looked at one recently, I don't know where..its tough getting old..that was plumbed for air, vacuum, and elec that used barrel bolts for locking. It was hinged both on the wall and the arm, and the arm was fitted with barrel bots on the middle hinge. It was set up for festool's dust extraction hose tho....


I also use a couple of these at my lathes.
I also bastardized one for my workbench for holding the Festool Dust extractor line
I have two lathes bought two but it was in the way for my metal lathe so I repurposed it.....
The one I do use on my wood lathe is attached to the ceiling.
 
jttheclockman said:
I just bought this system a couple months ago but have not yet got a chance to set it up. I mainly bought it for my lathe as well as my scrollsaws. I will be drilling some dust acrylic projects on the lathe and need to be able to add more direct dust collection.

https://mullettools.com/?msclkid=64e4e15933a91567df5287b1af5d144d
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I was looking at that just before I posted here. It looks pretty nice but I was hoping to finesse something that would just use my existing 4" hose and fittings. I'll zip tie the hose on, but I can't wrap my brain around how to put a joint in it that will secure in various positions.
 
sorcerertd said:
I was looking at that just before I posted here. It looks pretty nice but I was hoping to finesse something that would just use my existing 4" hose and fittings. I'll zip tie the hose on, but I can't wrap my brain around how to put a joint in it that will secure in various positions.
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Again because I am a tool nut years ago I bought a system that was designed for over the tablesaw. Now my memory is not what it use to be and I can not even remember where the parts are these days because I never put it together. But it is designed to collect dust on top of tablesaw. May want to look into those type designs. There are different devices out there that can support a 4" hose if you do a search and select images.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mullet+articulating+dust+collection+arms&form=HDRSC3&first=1

https://www.flextraction.co.uk/id/hood-positioning-device-articulated
 
I bought me of these from the returns section at a Rockler and mounted it to my ceiling. Swing to the left and connected a 4" hose for the lathe. Swing to the right and ran a 2" hose through the baffle for my CNC Router/Laser. Will use it again in the new shop next year.
Dust collection arm
 
jttheclockman said:
Again because I am a tool nut years ago I bought a system that was designed for over the tablesaw. Now my memory is not what it use to be and I can not even remember where the parts are these days because I never put it together. But it is designed to collect dust on top of tablesaw. May want to look into those type designs. There are different devices out there that can support a 4" hose if you do a search and select images.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mullet+articulating+dust+collection+arms&form=HDRSC3&first=1

https://www.flextraction.co.uk/id/hood-positioning-device-articulated
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That flextraction looks nice, but sounds expensive.
Woodchipper said:
Am I dreaming or did Sawstop offer this setup as an option?
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They did. I believe it was a secondary to catch dust over a table saw in addition to the standard dust port, but I could be wrong.
 
So here's the solution for the time being. It will surely get tweaked while I continue to search for a more versatile option or arrangement. At least it's fairly adjustable. I'll have to add some weight to get the arm to stay down lower since it was made to hold something heavier in place.

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That's a great solution! I see various styles of used monitor arms for sale quite often, but I didn't think to use them for the shop. Thanks for posting.
 
randyrls said:
Machinists use an arm with a locking knob in the center. It has two bars, and swivels at the top and bottom. It locks very securely at BOTH the top swivel, bottom swivel, and center joint. It doesn't flex at all. It is used to hold dial plunger micrometers. The mechanism is simple and you can take the thing apart to see the way it works.

https://www.littlemachineshop.com/products/product_view.php?ProductID=4521&category=1310310429
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I was looking for something similar to this, but heavy duty enough to hold the dust hood and hose in place securely and that I can mount to the ceiling. I'm lazy enough that the monitor arm will probably stay there for a long time if it works well. The shop (corner of the garage/basement) is a perpetual work in progress and small enough that I need to move things around to work on different projects.

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sorcerertd said:
I was looking for something similar to this, but heavy duty enough to hold the dust hood and hose in place securely and that I can mount to the ceiling. I'm lazy enough that the monitor arm will probably stay there for a long time if it works well. The shop (corner of the garage/basement) is a perpetual work in progress and small enough that I need to move things around to work on different projects.

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Todd I wish I could find the ad and article from which I purchased my parts from a few years ago. The idea of the system was to mount unistrut from the ceiling and have an arm such as that be able to slide along the track and it was designed for tablesaw top collection of dust. but it could have been easily adapted to use anywhere for any tool. I will look to see if I have the ad. I would really have to dig through my stuff to find those parts too and I am not of the mind to do that these days. If I stumble on it I will take a look. Sorry I can not help more.
 
jttheclockman said:
Todd I wish I could find the ad and article from which I purchased my parts from a few years ago. The idea of the system was to mount unistrut from the ceiling and have an arm such as that be able to slide along the track and it was designed for tablesaw top collection of dust. but it could have been easily adapted to use anywhere for any tool. I will look to see if I have the ad. I would really have to dig through my stuff to find those parts too and I am not of the mind to do that these days. If I stumble on it I will take a look. Sorry I can not help more.
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I appreciate the input anyway. Having something on a track sounds handy. I made somewhat of a track system with some pipe and shower curtain hooks for my shop vac cords before we got the basement water problem mostly under control. It was nice to have it up out of the way, but still move with the vac. There's definitely a lot of DIY ideas out there.
 
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