How to Build a Down Draft Sanding Table
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ส.ค. 2024
- This sanding table is an awesome addition to any shop! It keeps dust to a minimum and makes that post project clean-up a breeze. I hope you enjoy the video! As always, if you have a question, post it in the comment section below. I try to respond to every comment. Thanks for watching!
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I never would've thought to put a downdraft table under the work bench like that. What a great idea! I'm totally stealing that.
Go for it bro! 👍
Perfect height for a chair. Nothing worse than breaking your feet on the concrete floor while standing in one position doing something monotonous. Good stuff.
Super! I have cubbies in my miter saw table and was going to put drawers in all of them, now one will get a similar suction box! Thanks for sharing the idea.
I just picked up a new workbench that has four drawers. I'm going to use this idea to convert one of the top drawers into a downdraft box. Great project and thanks for the idea.
Love the idea of making the downdraft surface a drawer. I’m about to build one and was a little concerned about floor space, this solves my problem. Thanks for the video and the great idea!
awesome idea! I think I will have to copy this one for my tiny shop.
This is brilliant!!!! Very easy to do, very practical, and its versatile too!
+Rudy Reyes Jr Thanks Rudy!
great idea! I'm agonna do it!
Fantastic presentation -- you skipped the non-essential stuff, showing just what we needed to know, you sped up that which we didn't need to watch in normal time; you did not overtalk any of it, kept your presentation to just the essentials. Plugging in the shop vac is better than hard wiring it to a vacume system, even if you have one. I really appreciate your effort and your time to make it a very effective presentation. Plus it's a great idea, well executed. Thank you.
Nice! The drawer was a great idea.
I love it! Everyone should have a sanding box like that.
Thank you!
Great concept, I like how it stores under your bench.
+YouCanMakeThisToo thank you!
Great idea!
This is a brilliant idea, glad you shared it!
Thanks!
Nice job! Clever idea to make it on slides. Well done video too.
Thanks Robert! I've still got a lot to learn when it comes to editing, but I appreciate the compliment!
Funny enough I was research outfeed tables and it brought me to you. I've been wanting to make one of these for awhile now. I have a small shop, its only 10'x16' and I have more tools than I use,lol, so there's no room for a dedicated downdraft table. I like your idea of mounting it under the work surface, very clever!! My only other option was to hang it on a wall. Thanks for the idea!
That's a tight space! I'm sure you have a lot of clever space saving ideas!
Awesome use of dead space. Like others, this will be an addition to the multi-power tool workbench I’m building.
Great! Good luck with your build!
Nice job!
Great video share. Your the first who had the same idea as I did to make it a pull out sanding table.
Thanks. That just makes it so nice! I don't have to get something else out every time I need to use it. It's so handy!
Nice job Thanks for sharing I basically did the same thing I did put a peice of carpet foam with holes work great for holding your materials while sanding
Good idea! I use drawer liner. It has holes already in it, and is just tacky enough to do really well too.
What an ingenious idea! Nice short video too!
+Frits van Doorn Thanks Frits!
Great idea thank you for the tips
Thank you, and you're welcome!
going to build one . I do a lot of wood work. like Texas clocks, phone charging station, cowboy hat racks. gun boxes. thing like that and all of it has to be sanded 3 or 4 times. this make a mess on the work bench and shop. this will help a lot thanks for the lesson. grate job.
Awesome! Good luck!
Excellent job! This presentation is edited in addition to your being well-spoken. Some videos (by other producers) lose my interest quickly by bombarding me with their loud music (I like my own music), OR THE SOUND OF SHOP MACHINES RUNNING. Sometimes they simply bore me with Uh UH UH, and finally get half a sentence out. You Mr. WV DIYer have an excellent idea of what needs to be in and what should be edited out. Good Job!
Thank you! I really appreciate that.
Well done video. The project is a good idea I think Im going to make one similar to it.
+Kristopher Marsh Thank you! Good luck with yours!
Well done , i like it .
Thanks Hakeem!
Good idea!
+shoolsux thank you
Nice video and project!
+Pam Hoven thank you!
I'm using this! Thanks!
You're welcome. Enjoy!
Looks good man!
Thanks
thanks for your advice on saws. I will definitely buy a Dewalt saw with frued blades
+scott mclean sounds great Scott! Good luck!
Nice job.
+Chris Carskaddan thanks Chris!
Brilliant!
Thank you!
Nice Thumbs up!
Perfect thank you
No problem!
awesome!
Welcome to WV, you have a new subscriber.
Thanks!
DAAAMN nice idea.... See if I cab fix one like that on my own bench ....
It has been a very nice addition!
Hi, I love this idea. I use a dremmel to make models, & use the wooden clamp on my workbenche to hold the wood. There's a drawer under the clamp, but its needed for storage. Would the extractor work if I pulled the workbench drawer out, & rested the extractor on the drawer, underneath the clamp? Alternatively, could the extractor be adapted with the addition of a small clamp? That would be my preference.
I'm not a joiner, just an amateur hobbyist, so no idea here 🙃.
Thanks
Just a thought. If you put a diagonal board from the back top to the front bottom it it will help suction plus the vibration from sanding moves it to the front on the box.
Good idea!
Good thought about putting the downdraft table on drawer slides. Because you didn't slope the bottom, the box will trap the dust in the back and corners. Also, I wouldn't have glued on the top, because you can't open it and clean out the box.
Those are good points. I don't mean to come across as a jerk here, so don't take it that way. I'm genuinely curious. It's there a reason that it would matter if there was dust inside the box? My thought is that as long as it's sucking it out of the air, and through the holes in the table top, I really don't care where it's going. Just my opinion.
From what I have found, dust flows over smooth surfaces easier. I have a similar problem in my Powermatic Table Saw. The dust piles up on the sides, and the amount of suction at the blade drops. When I clean out the base, suction is restored. I keep trying to install sloped surfaces, wherever the dust collects and each time, the suction at the blade improves. I believe it has something to do with Laminar flow, but I haven't tried to model the interior or do any calculations. My experience is anecdotal observation only.
I see.. So far I haven't experienced that, but if I develop any problems with my set up, I'll try out your thoughts on version 2.0.
I love the idea, I don’t like the design to much. I would give myself the ability to open it up if I need to. But besides that it’s pretty cool.
Cool storage idea attaching it to draw slides. There is no need to glie the peg bpard.
What are those huge louvered board setup assembly contraption located against the wall behind the miter saw?
Thank you. Those are some widow shutters I made. It was a quick easy project. Used the band saw to re-saw a 2x4 into 7 thin pieces. Then book matched the pieces in the right order, and used brads and glue to attach them to a small rectangle frame. I then got a piece of black steel tubing and large metal cable ties of the same diameter and attached the shutters to the tubing and the tubing to the wall. So they slide out of the way (barn door style-ish haha) a little more substantial than some mini blinds for the shop.
Very nice I would of also tapered the all the sides to the suction hole.
+John Todd that is a great idea. Eliminate all the natural voids.
Nice idea, making the downdraft table a slide-out! But, does it ever move while working? Or do the drawer slides lock it in place?
I'm working in a small work shop, so the "stow-and-go" aspect is great. I was thinking of sloping the bottom from back to front to hopefully help with the draw at the back, what do you think?
I think that would work great!
Great project, may have to add that to my workbench :-) What part of WV are you from, I'm Tom from Weirton WV top of the Northern Panhandle
Glue on top. . .yikes. I am going to work in a bigger version with legs i think. Very cool.
Zack what brand of shop vac are you using
Horse power & how many gallon capacity and cfm.
Thanks for your time and willingness to help out others with answers.
It's a 16 gallon, 6.5hp Ridgid from home Depot. If I remember right the CFM is around 150-160. Not much compared to the system I use now. My new system is well over 1,000. If you're deciding on a dust collection system, I highly suggest going big from the start.
I'm curious what you did to help secure the shop vac nozzle to the hole
+cgriesemer The end of the nozzle is about 2" long, so just it's weight pulling down on the front holds it inside the hole with friction. It is not permanently mounted, so I can still move the shop vac around the shop for other jobs. I haven't had any problems with it trying to back out on me while I was using it. Thanks for watching!
What horsepower shopvac do you use?
Nice job, very impressive
The peg board normally comes with 1/4 holes, do you feel the need to make them any larger ? Just curious
In my opinion, the smaller holes improve the suction when using a shop vac. If they were much bigger, I think the functionality would suffer. If you fitted a dust collection fitting to the bottom and used a 4" hose with good suction, I'm sure you could go with bigger holes.
maybe would have been better to just screw the bottom? just in case you get any blockages and need to open it up. nice project tho
I’ve always wanted to build one of these but don’t want to build one then have to take it apart because it does not do much. Now that you’ve had it for a while what’s your updated view on its usefulness.
It works great. If i was doing it again, i don't think I'd glue on the peg board, because I've heard dust buildup inside could cause an airflow problem. I haven't had any issues with dust building up so far, so it's up to you. Other than that change, it's been great!
Thanks. I have that exact spot available on my bench.
Awesome! Good luck with your build!
So now that it's been a few years since the build do you still like the down draft from that project? I have a workbench that that has a slide out table for a miter saw but I don't use it and I could really use something like this project for my small sanding projects. Would like to know if you made changes or found that it needed other tweaks to make it work better. Thanks, I'll check out your channel for other stuff too.
The only thing I've done is cut a piece of poster board (heavy paper) to cover the holes in the area I'm not using. It improves the suction in the area i am using. Hopefully that makes sense. Other than that, it works great. I'm very happy with it.
@@WVDIYGUY Thanks! I've got some time on my hands to this is now on the project list!
I think you'll be happy you did it! Stay safe!
Hi nice project. Question I have is...Did you build it big enough? Or for that matter too big? Now that you have used for awhile, are you happy with size ? And have you had any areas inside the box that is not cleaning out well. I am starting my wood shop , and will incorporate this into my assembly table or out feed table that I am researching on TH-cam. So ty for the GREAT simple solution
I would say it depends on the types of projects you plan to use it for.. it's worked well for me. I put a piece of posterboard over the back half to seal off the air flow if I'm just working on a small piece. Good luck with your shop!
WV DIY GUY Ty and I just rewatched the video again and just think that this is the best solution for ANY SMALL SHOP WELL DONE ..
Thank you! Are you going to be adding a variation of this to your shop?
WV DIY GUY yes my plan is to ad this to my out feed table I will build soon . But I’m questioning my plan of building it on the top of bench . I might just do EXACTLY what you did. But will build table accordingly so I don’t have to ad supports (2x6) like you had to in order to accommodate the drawer slides .
That sounds great. I'd really like to see what you come up with! Keep in touch. And good luck with your build.
I wish I had seen this a few months ago. I bought I downdraft sanding table at Peachtree Woodworking, only find out that will not work with a shop vac. It needs a much great volume of air that an air handler will provide. Any solutions that you know of? They say it needs 650 cfm
I would suggest a full dust collector for that. You can spend a lot of money on a dust collector, but I opted for a harbor freight 2hp. It has worked fine for me for not much money if you wait for a 25% coupon (holidays). For the money, I can't complain about it's performance. Good luck!
Thank you.
Hi, How many Horse power is the vacume?
Great videos mate but can I suggest that you get rid of the black borders in your videos. I think this happens if you shoot in 960p on a GoPro but obviously I don't know what gear you use.
Hey Lucas, I agree with you. I don't like the way it looks either.. I actually use my underwater dive camera to shoot the video. It is a 1080 camera and when I edit the video, it looks bright, clear, and there are no black borders. Then when I publish to TH-cam it gets dark, blurry, and adds the borders. I have no idea what causes the change. If you have any suggestions or insight into why this happens, I'd love to know so that I can fix it! Thanks!
where are you in WV? I'm in Bridgeport, and have lights, microphones (your audio could use help) and a decent editing rig. Message me and Let me know if there's anything you need.
+Ken Aucremanne Hey Ken, I may be interested in some of your gear. Please email me: thewvdiyguy@gmail.com
Thanks!
You are a pretty tall guy...I would have made a table ...I am 6'5. That height under the bench is way too short for sanding more than 5 minutes.
+Pyper70 I would agree for standing to sand. But i sit in my shop chair and it's very comfortable. Work smarter not harder.
WV DIY GUY, I’m ‘only’ 5’7” and my motto is still the same! This is an AWESOME idea that I’m ‘borrowing’ for my new/rebuilt shop and I agree with you on the drawer slide weight ratings as well. I dont think theres enough leverage with the length fully pulled out even if you did happen to put something heavier on it but as I’m building small ‘craft fair/christmasy’ items, never EVER a worry for that!