Thouight I would post some pics of the recent ducting (finally) of my cyclone (that I bought two years ago!). I made the blast gates from the design of Alan Shaffter (thanks Alan). I took off the old dust port doors on the jointer and table saw. I made a plywood cover for the openings, cut out hole for the pipe or coupling and glued the pipe in place with Gorilla glue. I did use screws at the vertical connections, but they were #4x 3/8", and with a washer under the head barely protrude to the inside. Shouldn't be an issue. I still need to make an adapter to connect under the band saw table, and a shroud to go around the back of the mitre saw (it sits on the bench where the hole is, when in use). I also need to shorten the hose to the planer. I left it long until I see where I need to move it to when I'm using it.
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The clear flex hose that I bought from Grizzly is very nice stuff, but it was a bear (ha!) to put on. I found that graphite powder was my friend. I cut longitudinal slits in a short pc of pipe to reduce the circumference, thereby making a pc that would slip into the original pipe and allow the flex to fit snuggly onto to split pc. This was done for both 6" and 4" flex.
And here is a pic showing that the shop isn't really cleaned up. I need to clean off this bench ASAP! It's been a collect-all for too long now.
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