Dust Extraction Connectors from PVC Pipe
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 มิ.ย. 2024
- PVC pipe I have found to have many uses including the job it was made for, well this time I needed some dust extraction connectors, i'm not going to buy loads for every tools I own, instead I decided to make some from the PVC pipe I have.
The 2 pipe sizes are 32mm and 40mm, using a heat gun you can enlarge the ends to fit on many power tool extraction pipes
Disclaimer: How I use my tools, equipment and PPE is down to my choice. I use these based on my experience of using and operating these tools. Do not think because I have done something a certain way it is safe for you to do say. Always follow manufactures safety guidelines.
Thanks for watching, should you which to contact me, you can do so via the methods below.
Instagram @jamesmancave
Contact - jmc.jamesmancave@gmail.com
-------------------------------------------------------------------
The tools and products I use:
AEG (known as Ridgid in North America)
AEG 18v, impact driver - amzn.to/2OWuD8S
AEG 18v, Brushless 190mm circular saw - amzn.to/2OwcWhq
AEG 18v, orbital sander - amzn.to/2zNZ2je
AEG 18v, Reciprocating saw - amzn.to/2Dubg1C
AEG 18v, Brushless 18Ga nailer - amzn.to/35Ng2U3
AEG 18v, Brushless belt sander - amzn.to/35JNj2I
AEG 18v, Brushless trim router - amzn.to/2OrouTc
Evolution power tools:
Evolution Rage5s table saw - amzn.to/2KKRU9V
Evolution R255SMS mitre saw - amzn.to/2Lyz76u
Evolution R185CCSX+ - amzn.to/2IOud1o
Evolution 2x700mm Track - amzn.to/2ITMEC6
Evolution 2x1400 Track - amzn.to/2KWGnZ0
Other power tools:
Stanley jigsaw - amzn.to/2vUlNPE
Stanley 18v random orbital sander - amzn.to/36dSdFf
Ryobi random orbital sander - amzn.to/2wy1tVA
Wagner sprayer - amzn.to/2OBIFyX
Clamps, jigs and other stuff:
Irwin clamps - amzn.to/2MHnSpu
Irwin squeeze clamps - amzn.to/2MHnSpu
Irwin sash clamps - amzn.to/2P1Io54
Irwin handy clamp - amzn.to/2wn313G
Irwin card scrapper - amzn.to/2PZFvCF
Speed square - amzn.to/2OtceP8
Gorilla wood glue - amzn.to/2P2QFpI
Epoxy resin - amzn.to/2O6bYZY
Triton pocket hole jig - amzn.to/2XVXVvJ - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
This is one of those "why didn't I think of that" deals. Brilliant solution, video and thanks much!
The one video to rule all dust collection fittings videos. Took quite a while to find you, but you are the one to explain and demonstrate the technique and generalization principles. Very nice video style too. My lungs and I thank you.
Haha, thanks very much! Tell your lungs I said thanks also 👍
@@JamesManCave Hi James do you second the idea that I should use a pool vacuum hose for my shop vac instead of buying the official hose?
Nice to see a St Austell Brewery bottle being put to good use a second time around in its life!! Spotted this here in Australia after turning on your vid. Good to hear someone talking proper too!!
Never thought of these simple and highly effective ideas. Thanks for the tips
Thank you James, for your helpful, practical and very clear guidance & instruction. It's really appreciated.
Hey guys, no problem at all. Glad to be of help 👍
Excellent job with these fittings, my friend. You are a great problem solver.
Thanks 👍
Really helpful. Nothing seems to fit anything when it comes to power tools and machines, shop vacuums and my dust commander. Thanks for sharing 👍
Brilliant, the simple solutions are normally the best. It has spurred me into action regarding my new Bandsaw which has similar issues, thank you.
Great idea. I always join the plastic pipes the same way without having to use straight connectors or even bends at times. I too heat them up the same way as you did. but this on power tools is new to me, never would have guessed it, what a fantastic idea, thanks for the tips.
No problem buddy, I try to be creative with what I have. And if it all fails, then you have only lost a bit of time in making it
Can't believe I didn't think of this. I guess that's why I tune in to you folks. So gone with the tape and on with this genius idea. Thanks for the video. Carol🇨🇦
Hi Carol, no problem, thanks for watching 👍
You are a genius young man. I was just thinking about this over the weekend as I am setting up my workshop/garage. This is going to save me a lot of problems.
Thanks, they work well! When I can find them that is!
Thank you for this video.. OMG! It is a life saver. Just could not find a fitting to match my belt sander and shop vac while working indoors at a different site. Oh what a mess and a real pain. This is so simple and easy and never thought of doing it before. Man I have now and forget searching all those other sites and trying to buy one. Made 3 already in less than an hour. OUTSTANDING SIR. TKs
Great, no problem at all. Good to hear you have made your own, and solved all your dust collecting problems 😃👍
Thanks James. Great tip. Nice approach.
Great idea. I have a bunch of stationary and hand power tools with different sized dust ports. I have a ryobi battery rolling vacuum. No one seemed to make all the adapters I needed so I finally figured out to use the rubber pipe adapters that have metal bands you tighten around each end. Was able to order all the different sized ones I needed off Amazon and weren't expensive. They work great!
Yes I also have a couple of those to on big 4 inch ports, they work fine, but I'm yet to make an adaptor for them that reduces them down to a hold a permanent fitting for the 38mm vacuum hose I use
Wow, I am always amazed at how much I overthink things. I was racking my head about the same issues. I did heat some items up on the main trunk lines of my dust collection but never stopped to think about this until now. thanks mate Awesome
Glad it helped! These things can somtimes be solved with the easiest of ideas!
Great job, just what I needed to see so I can make my own adapters... have a wonderful day.
GREAT video, I like the "flare" technique! !! !!!
Thanks for the inspiration, much appreciated James!
No problem, glad you liked it
Great workshop hack. Thanks for showing James
No problem Phil, not being one to like to part with my cash very often, I like to make do with what I have
I have built my own diy dust exhaust with the motor-part of a cheap leaf blower/vacuum, and have now, as most others, come up against the battle of the nozzles :D
Had already purchased a 32mm tube, but will also pick up a 40mm one and go to work with my heatgun to make the neccessary fittings.
Great video, very helpful, thanks.
Great idea, no problem, best of luck 👍👍
Some great ideas here Jamie.Nice video, Thanks for sharing.
Well done James, another great idea and video.
Thanks Stuart, they work well! I need to make some more
Excellent. Been using simple solutions like this for a while. Nice one.
Cheers, always nice when you can knock up something your self 👍
Thanks James for sharing this, works great👍
Very elegant solution! Thanks!!
No problem, hope you make some 👍
great video thank you I will make some of these all my machines have different sizes this will solve the problem.
If you don't have a heat gun you can use a "Pistol" type hair dryer which is 1500 watts as is the heat gun. Used one many times that way!
What a great idea I would never have thought if that. Well done and thanks.
Thanks buddy, no problem at all 👍
Very clever!
Thanks buddy
Thank you for sharing precious ideas!!
Thanks, no problem
Brilliant - Thanks for sharing. I'll be trying this!
Excellent 👍👍
I was thinking exactly the same thing at least now I can buy the pipe with confidence as I have seen the proof of concept video.
Cheers mate well done!
Some very good thinking behind this. Good job
Love it! 😀 very good tips. Great personality, made me smile 😀😀 👍🏼
Thanks, tried to make the video a bit more interesting to watch 👍
Cheers James I'm definitely having this issue.
No problem, it a simple fix
Just came across your video James...well done man....always the same I spent a small fortune on shop-vac fittings then I see your vid...Suffern duck...
Thanks, I still use them now, come in very handy
Excellent idea about heating the pipe, thanks. Rather than use a bottle I made 35mm diameter wooden former on my woodturning lathe and used that to flare the 32mm pipe so that it was a tight-ish sliding fit into the 40mm pipe. Then I fixed the two with some solvent weld to give an airtight joint - perfect :)
Excellent to hear that, I'd much rather attempt to make my own stuff then buy it. And that's the handy thing with a lathe, can turn what ever you need on it 👍
What a superb way of sorting out the annoying issue of connection of dust extraction .
I recently purchased a new shop vac and it only had one connector that you can cut down to one of four sizes. It only fitted one application though, you’d need to buy one for each tool at £5.99 a shot
Inspired solution here. Might just have to steal some of this approach.
Cheers James.
I have the same sort of connection, I bought a silicone pipe adapter, but it wasn't really any good
I’ve done the same thing. Works for me!!
Great idea. The tea is a great idea also...Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, can't go wrong with a nice cup of t on a cold day ☺
Great job. Very smart!!.
PVC pipe is a good idea. I already have a few around my garage.
Great idea, just remembered I’ve got some black pipe in my shed somewhere.
Thanks buddy, should work well 👍
Got to do that James thanks for the reminder
No problem Phil
nice job on the video James
Cheers 👍👍
Very smart. Thank you sir
Excellent video and process
Thanks for sharing
No problem, thanks for commenting 👍
Very good! Well done!
Thanks very much 👍
PVC cement helps sometimes. Thanks for the vid! Cheers!
Thanks, yes I did consider that, but opted against using any glue
Brilliant!
Thanks
great idea
That's actually bloody genius! So obvious yet I never would have thought of it. Good job that man!
Thank you Pete, saves having to buy different fittings everytime you purchase a new tool
Genius brother!
Thanks buddy 👍
Nice to see you drinking the proper stuff ... Thanks for the tip!
Can't go wrong with a nice cup of tea 👍
James' Man Cave I was thinking about the beer!
Haha, that's what I thought u ment 😉
Got to love a bit of PVC pipe 👍
It has multiple uses, once you work them out of course! 🤣
Yes Mate, I make all sorts of knife sheaths and holders from the stuff, very useful and cheap 👍😊
I did the same thing with my miter saw works great
Brilliant thank you😃
Nicely done.
Thanks mate
I've been working all day trying to make fittings for my tools and I couldn't figure out how to get the two pipes to stay together. I found you on here and I never thought about flaring the pipe and fitting it into the other and pushing it through. AWESOME!! THANK YOU!
Brilliant, glad to be of help 👍
Love the vid :D That's an important tip about not going too hot with the heat on the PVC. If it's too hot it can reduce the size of the colder fitting if too many are done at once. Found that out making stacks of elbows and joiners for my electrical conduit in the shed. the later elbows started being too tight on new conduit lol. To avoid similar I started wrapping a damp cloth/rag around pipe when just formed to take the bulk of the heat away and set the size.
Great vid all the info and no long winded delivery (PS: I love the duck )
Haha thanks buddy, she seemed happy to be filmed. That's a great tip regarding the damp rag, shall remember that in future when manipulating more pvc 👍
Very good! thanks
No problem, glad to be of help
So simple, love it! Great video James, thanks for sharing!
No problem, 👍
Great idea! It’s so annoying how there aren’t standard sizes for all of the dust collection connectors. This will help. Thanks!
Thanks buddy, yeah I agree, and the options you can buy don't always fit everything you want it too
Thank you i needes this!
Thanks for the tips.....
You are welcome sir! 👍
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR!
THANKS!!! YOUR'RE THE MAN!!!!
No problem, sorry i missed your comment. They work perfect for me
great idea thanks
Brilliant 👍👍👍
Thanks Buddy
good job!
Thanks buddy 👍
excellent idea and video
Thanks very much Jim
Hey there, James: Its been a while since this was put up, how have you dealt with static build up on/in your dust extraction hoses? Maybe time for an update? Excellent ideas so far, by the way.
Hi Ken, well the short answer is, there is very little static build up of dust in them. I always remove them and tap out the dust left in them after using the tool, so maybe that helps. But I used the mitre saw a lot in the summer and all is good 👍
PVC is safe and stable. Heating or burning plastic releases vinyl chloride an extremely toxic gas and has cause many deaths. Breathing the fumes has caused many deaths, therefore work in well ventilated area.
Great idea! My Karcher WD3 fits the Rage 5S perfectly but I will try the pipe on some of my other tools. What do you use to clean/trim the plastic pipe once cut on the mitre saw? Sandpaper is a drag. I use a deburring tool it's so much quicker.
Thanks buddy, I have the WD2, that is the same exact size as the extraction pipe on the saw. I just used a stanley knife blade to clean the ends up, but my mitre saw didn't leave to bad of a cut to be honest
Nice video James, but I kept thinking that where you were at it was almost 0 degrees! I don't see how you can even think! Anyway, very nice video. I plan on building a homemade cyclone dust extractor, and this idea should come in handy for the adapters.
Thanks, yes it was cold in there, but sometimes I just gotta accept it and get on with it. That sounds cool, it's something I'm also considering making from a vacuum motor I have. 👍
wrap a piece of bare ground wire around the plastic pipe and ground both ends (beyond 1 end to the floor) to avoid static shock. Placing a heavy washer to the wire on the floor will eliminate static shock : )
Genius!!!
Thank you good sir
Timely video. My shop vac just stopped working and I bought a new one ... none of my existing hose adaptors fit and after a couple of days perusing Amazon and measuring everything with a caliper I'm no further forward. Your video may have solved all my problems :-)
Excellent, exactly the same trouble I was having. Have since sprayed them all fluorescent yellow so they are easy to find
Nice video - good tips. It's just a real bummer that I have 5 power tools and every single one of them has different internal and external hosing sizes....and none of them is adaptable to heated PVC pipe.
It appears each manufacturer just shifts the sizing a few millimeters, to almost ensure it's going to be a real sod to connect anything! I have lots of spare hose I inherited, but can't get any of it to fit anything - but if I chuck it away - which is a real waste - and buy new, I then can't get the new hose to fit all the existing tools.
If anything was crying out for standard sizing, dust extraction is it!
Yep, annoying is an understatement, I have tools from a few different manufacturers so I had to make a few in the end. The vacuum connection at the end of the hose never seem to be the same size either!
cheers ! well done !
Thanks buddy
great tips
Cheers, no problem
Isn't it amazing that the dust extraction ports on every tool you have seems to be a different size than any vacuum hose you have? They're like snowflakes, no two are alike.
Great ingenuity.
That's certainly one way of looking at them 😂. Thanks
He is not the only one. I have the same bloody problem with all my tools.
i am makeing mine with my 3d printer now lol they will fit like a glove
Paint them orange, easier to find. Great ideas
That's is a good idea, since making them I have struggles to find them once or twice
Tea (or coffee in my case) always makes the day go a little better doesn't it? Great video James. I'm glad to see you wearing gloves when messing with hot PVC, as safety first is always a good thing. If you don't mind my asking how hot was your heat gun when you softened the PVC fittings? Whatever setting you used seemed to be a perfect starting temp. I have one that goes from 300-1,000 degrees, but knowing a good setting up front should make the task go a little smoother.
Hey, had to be a hot drink as was a cold day! I have 2 settings on my heat gun, 1 being the low setting, and 2 being the high. I had it on 2 but heated the pipe up for about 3/4 minutes
Absolute genius!
But why the hell aren't they all standard?????
God knows! Vacuum hoses don't seem to be standard either??? 👍
really useful video James, thanks for taking the time to make and post it.
only comment I would disagree with is that cup of tea mate- even on good day thats not a great cup 🤣
Haha, that's the workers mug, gets used when I'm in the workshop, saves getting the fine bone china dirty 👍
@@JamesManCave the mugs perfect mate, I use a Sports Direct mug just for the workshop. Your tea though mate, that's a different story 🤢
Brilliant idea with the PVC, I'm getting onto it this weekend so big thumbs up bud 👍
Bloody genius... Now can you come up with 4inch to 40mm for my thickneser extraction 😃
Thanks buddy, when I have this promotion, I shall look into what I can do 👍 ☺
good idea.
Thanks
Been meaning to do this a while myself, my only criticisms would be they look a bit longer than necessary, and it might be worth making a permanent one for the end of your hose so its dead easy to plug in to each adaptor
The conntor for the table saw is maybe a few mm over size, but I made the depth of the longer so it could secure the hose better as didn't want it falling out. If I made permanent one, I'd still need to remove it for 2 of my tools as they have odd shape extraction connectors 😕
@@JamesManCave Ah, bummer! if the round hose fits the other tools surely a round PVC pipe would aswell? Hope you can think of something :) Good to see more British lads on here too by the way.
I have to flatten part of the vacuum pipe and tape it on as the other ports are like a half moon sorta shape. I tried heating some puv pipe to fit, but It has to stretch a fair bit on the flat part and goes quite thin
@@JamesManCave hmm, maybe you could make a plywood circle that has a precision cutout for the half moon? Then perhaps a larger pipe would fit on and you could have a reducer... Just thinking it might make life a bit easier in the long run if everything just slipped on haha
What about the vac end fittings
Does it matter if it is push fit or solvent weld tubing?
No, either will work 👍
Good idea, now I have to try and work out how to put a pipe onto the Vonhaus circular saw because that dust outlet is virtually flush with the body of the saw. Superb saw, poor design for dust extraction, unfortunately.
Bloody Brilliant! That's my Weekend sorted!
Haha, can make quite a few in a whole weekend 👍👍
Auto radiator hose may fit on the miter saw..
What you use for rectungular adapters? Eih? Eih?
I heat them up, and then make them into circles! 😉
Great vid ! 👍 its annoying that you shouldn't have to do this, standardise !!!
Well unfortunately it's part of owning different tools from different brands 😣
That flare connection is pretty slick! What about siliconing it? Just for suction sake? Just curious if it's needed
Yea I guess that is something that will help, but the suction is pretty good still, and I can't say I've noticed any air leaks around it?
@@JamesManCave I kinda over build things soooo..... 😁😁😁😁
Looked like it was working decently enough for you. Great idea
can you do a air cleaner for the workshop by any chance,I would love to see your take on that problem
hmmm, It's something i'd really like to have a go at, but at the moment i've got a few other things I need to get done first. BUT, it is on the list
I use a box fan with a furnace filter; on the intake side to keep the motor & blades clean. Placing it beside your work will get most of the dust instantly.
I prefer coffee over tea.
Great! Bob's your uncle!...not sure what that means but hope it is a good thing
Haha, got an uncle Phil, but not a Bob! 👍