The unit comes with a foot long cord, and that is sufficiently long enough to give the collector the range, with the hose, to reach any part of my shop. If you are ever unsure, just drive a metal rockler clear dust collection pipe into the ground and wire to that stake. I'm not using PVC pipe - using Rockler's stuff. To mitigate dust leakage, I retightened and added foam tape to help with leaks from under the filter and, in general, looked the other way when a fine coating of dust fell in every corner of my shop. But hey, a shop is a shop, not an operating theatre. How about the bags?

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All posts by Stan ». Can you provide any help in determining if this would be a good purchase with collecting concrete dust? Carl — These really are not set up for collecting dust from concrete, especially in large volumes.

Really need an industrial concrete dust collector made for that application. Can you clean the top filter, or is that something that needs to be replaced? How about the bags? The cyclones I have on my shop vac work wonders in keeping the majority of the sawdust out of the vac. Name required. Mail will not be published required. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

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Disclosure Product reviews on this site contain our opinion of a product or service. Sawdust can make a floor slippery and can catch fire if hit by a stray spark. It can decrease the quality of your woodworking, too, by wearing on your tools and preventing you from keeping the stock in constant contact with the cutter. The good news is that dealing with dust doesn't have to be difficult or outrageously expensive. Rockler has worked hard to make dust collection an easy add-on to any woodworking machine.

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I've really only ever had the Festool one. I know the Festool hoses are anti-static and stuff and figured "hey, if Festool did it, I should probably do it for my DC system for the planer".

I'm not using PVC pipe - using Rockler's stuff. I've done a good bit of reading on this topic as I'm just about ready to install feet of 6" diameter thin-wall PVC sewer and drain pipe ASTM and 20 or so fittings, all going back to my Clearvue CV cyclone.

I've also seen Dave's video, and his method doesn't work very well. I think there are two good solutions here: 1. Run adhesive-backed metal foil tape along the inside and outside of your ducting. Obviously, it's running the tape inside a long duct that is the real challenge. I'm going to weld a little puller rod to a pole to accomplish this for my foot pipes, then follow it up by shoving a mop head down it to ensure good tape adhesion.

Do the same for your fittings and make sure your tape aligns and comes in contact with all components in the system. Connect fittings with sheet metal screws and then tape around each connection to ensure an air-tight fit. This is a lot of work but it's much preferred to running a loose wire inside the duct, which will rattle around and also obstruct dust collection. The alternative is do nothing. If you notice you're getting shocked when touching your tool or fittings, spray the touch points with StaticGuard.

There is a lot of debate around the potential for fires caused by PVC ducting and sawdust. I have not heard of a single documented incident of a fire being caused by a hobby woodworking shop. Now, if you're working at a sawmill, yes, you want to have a proper system with spiral ducting but that's also 7x more expensive than PVC.

Lots of good reading on this topic here and here. I'll be foil taping my ducts as mentioned earlier. Not because I think it will be any safer really, but when the whole place burns down due to some other unforeseen reason , I don't want my insurance company to have a reason to not pay out. Disclaimer : I am in no way an expert in electrostatic. This is about my understanding and personal experience. Body discharge is annoying but very minor. The effects might be even worst for some people, where your body hairs raise when too close.

Some people are more subject to electrostatic. If this has never been a problem for you then grounding your DC pipes is a waste.

Festool made their hoses anti-static to protect the electronic board residing in the CT. Electrostatic can kill some electronic components therefore you need to prevent any discharge to the unit.

As far as I know the Rockler DC do not contain any electronic board and if it was to have one it should be self protected and isolated properly. There is zero stats on this. You may have a different take and it's fine. I have a basement shop with plastic sewer line ducting run through the ceiling around the shop and y-drops around the perimeter. I ran interior grounding wire like the Rockler kit. I soldered the joints at each 'y' branch for the drops and it's been fine for 18 years with no issues.

The hoses I use have spiral wire imbedded in them. The wire is grounded to a Laguna dust collector with cyclone in a closet. The only issue I have to be aware of is not to pick up tissue or paper towels that might get caught on the interior wire joints leading to reduced air flow or stoppage.

Other than that, zero problems. And no apparent static on the hoses. Cochese Posts: Cheese Posts: I was tired of getting zapped all of the time and also the static charge on the vinyl hose attracted any saw dust on the floor so the outside of the hose was always covered in saw dust. So I formed a loop of 12 ga solid copper wire that would fit into the vinyl hose.

It pokes out through the side of the vinyl hose and attaches to the vinyl spiral wire and a short piece of 14 ga stranded wire which has a Molex connector on it. Any sawdust or wood particles will charge up the copper wire and the spiral wire will carry the charge back to the dust collector.

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