Lathe dust collection

Re: Lathe dust collection

John K Jordan

>>>Love to hear what type of setups you folks have.

I use a 5hp ClearVue cyclone with 6" ducts, 4" to the lathe with a nozzle as shown below. I've watched sanding dust come off a spindle and travel about 2' horizontally to be pulled into the collector.

The pickup nozzle is on an adjustable mount so I can move it easily as needed.

JKJ

Re: Lathe dust collection

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

Talk to Oneida. When I set up my system Oneida asked if a lathe was involved. They told me lathe chips are large, have a lot of momentum , and therefore are harder to capture than saw dust. They can advise what modification is needed.

Re: Lathe dust collection

Bill Howatt

I have a dedicated 1HP DC for my lathe with just a small cardboard box on the end of a 4" hose as a collector.

I only use if for sanding since I find it doesn't work that well for lathe shavings. Maybe a 5HP system like Bill Tindall's would help but when I'm turning green wood the shavings are big, long and going every which way and it isn't unusual to find them 10 or more feet away. No way the DC is going to change the direction of any of them that aren't behaving nicely by going directly into the collector box.

I also have stopped sweating the lathe cleanup except for every now an then. Normally, I just shovel the shavings that are the 80% easy to get with 20% of the effort. The 20% that require 80% of the effort are the ones that are the "now and then" cleanups.

Bill

Exactly my strategy. Shavings are not dust...

Re: Lathe dust collection

Don Stephan

Personally, I would now want shavings to go into a collector, unless I had a commercial size outside the building that would dump directly into a truck bed.

Re: Lathe dust collection

Barry Irby

I bring the 4" DC hose over to the lather and attach it to the banjo when sanding.

As for the shavings, I don't really try. I did make a trash can into a sort of cyclone with 4" fittings. After I walk around on the shavings for a while and they are crunched up, I vac them up with the DC with the "cyclone" in the line. Emptying the cyclone is easier than emptying the DC.

I have heard that some people have what amounts to shower curtains around their lathe to limit how far the shavings go.

Thanks Everyone

Raj

I do the same thing, let the chips fall where they may! It's the sanding dust that I am focusing on.

A cheap solution

Barry Irby

Buy a box fan and set it behind your turning with a furnace filter taped to it. It will suck the air and dust away from you.

It's more fun to play with the DC hose and pretend you are doing some sort of aero-dynamic air flow testing.