It seems that most shop equipment such as saws, sanders etc have an exhaust port that shop vacs can easily plug into and there are various adapters so as to capture some of the dust.
Well I don't have a conventional shop vac. Mine came from work, it's made in Italy and a nice unit. Somehow one of the cast aluminum legs was broken and the the manager was going to throw it away and I just brought it home, made a new base out of plywood and used some cheapo Harbor Freight wheels to restore the mobility. However the nozzle is permanently secured to the hose so it doesn't work to plug into exhaust ports for sucking up dust and small chips.
Here it is:
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I decided to make my shop vac work/at least on the new band saw.
I used a 90 deg rubber connector for ABS pipe. It came with worm drive hose clamps on both ends to keep things in place but technically the piece was quite a bit too small to fit over the OD of the machine's exhaust port but with the help some really hot water and a bit of brute force and ignorance the rubber flexed over the outlet. No need to use the worm drive hose clamp it doesn't want to come loose.
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Then on the other end I used a PVC coupler for 1 1/4" PVC pipe. Again the hot water treatment but not much brute force and it stretched over the coupler. After cooling down the PVC coupler could be twisted with a lot of effort but I needed it to stay put due to how the unit is going to be used so it got the hose clamp.
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OK, now a section of 1 1/4" PVC was cut and the ends smoothed. This is a press fit into the coupler:
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The shop vac nozzle is tapered. It's a press fit inside of the PVC tubing.
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The cost for the build was around $15 (the 45 deg rubber piece was $11 with tax) and I have a bit of the 1 1/4" PVC tubing left. It should at least help capture some of the dust from the saw.
Now to see how to do something similar for my Ryobi bench top belt sander. However the discharge port is a larger size :banghead: so back to the creative drawing board.