Help me by showing off your PVC ductwork
First off, this is a long post so please bare with me.
I just ordered an Oneida 2hp dust gorilla and awaiting it's arrival. At first, I thought of just running a 15' length of 6" flex tube from 1 tool to another as needed since my workshop is in my garage and the wife and I still park our cars in it. Having said that, all my tools are on mobile bases and need to be moved in and out along the wall to make room for the cars. After careful consideration and thinking (head hurts), I figure I can position some of my tools along the wall in my garage workshop to where I won't need to move them when they are in use. My jointer, router table and planer can all sit along the wall and can still operate without having to be moved since material is feed from the side instead of front to back like a table saw. My table saw on the other hand will need to be moved from the wall to the middle of the garage when in use.
My plan was to have my jointer, router table and planer all on 1 wall. My dust collector will be in a corner of the same wall with a straight horizontal 6" PVC pipe coming from the inlet along the whole wall (or as far as needed). This run will likely be around 15'-20' long. From that straight pipe, I will use PVC wyes to drop 3 lines vertical pipes into my machines.
* The line going into the jointer will be a 6" PVC vertical drop then transition to a short run (2'-3') flex tube into the jointer.
* The line going to the table saw will also be a 6" PVC vertical drop (close to the floor) then transition to a 6" flex tube that will run about 10' to the table saw and then reduced down to 4" to fit the dust port of the table saw.
* The last line will be at the end of my long horizontal run. This line will be reduced immediately to a 4" flex tube that will be roughly 5'-10' long (will verify as soon as I can lay my tools out the way I'm planning) and will connect to the router table and planer, whichever is in use at the time.
I plan to keep my existing 1hp Jet dust collector and dedicate that to my miter saw as well as build a hood for it.
What are your thoughts on my plan? Any advise and suggestions are welcome as well as pictures of your PVC ductwork will greatly help me get a visual idea of things. I ask for only PVC as I'd like to see how your wyes and reducers look. This is my first time with ductwork so I'm a complete noob.
Thanks for reading and sorry for the long post.
Re: Help me by showing off your PVC ductwork
Hoang,
If you are like the rest of us, you will no doubt have to use a mixture of fittings to get the job done. If a PVC fitting won't fit, try a metal version. In this post: http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthre...se-6-quot-pipe I showed how I adapted my machines to use 6" pipe for hookups. One of the things I used extensively were 6" metal crimped fittings as shown in the photos. I measured them and they are just under 6" in diameter over the crimping. Uncrimped they are right at 6" or a bit over. The metal version might just slip inside (or over) the outlet pipe on your DG. On my SDD, I used a big box 5" to 6" adapter and it fit the SDD outlet perfectly. I don't have a piece of 6" PVC to measure, so I don't know how the metal would fit with it. The air seal will likely not be perfect using the crimped pipe, so the use of sealant in the joint would be prudent. I sealed all mine with a combination of silicone sealant and tape over the joint.
I believe Oneida makes an adapter that directly fits their cyclones and allows direct connection to other pipe types.
I can't urge you too strongly to use 6" pipe the entire way from the DG to your machines, to include the DC ports. The airflow you will have with that size pipe is so much higher than 4". In the thread I linked, you can see how my machines were adapted to 6".