Dust extractors and Pillar Drills

[KevinMc]

Hi all...

So any advice on simple Dust Extractors and where best to purchase primarily for Lathe Dust Extraction but also could be linked to other Machines later.

The same applies to finding a pillar drill as both are for a Hobby workshop.

Thanks in advance....

🤔

[seventhdevil]

do you have room to do this???

[Les Symonds]

do you have room to do this???

...can you explain the system....I'm guessing that the dust/chip mainly drops into the first bin, with residual dust eventually making it through to the Axminster unit. The only element of that set-up that I'm not clear on is the black unit sitting atop the wheelie-bin.
Les

[julcle]

Hi Kevin, This is my Axminster Pillar Drill. I find it does everything I want it to do and you can get it as a desktop one if you want to. I won this in a magazine competition.  Julian

[Bryan Milham]

Julian,

If your pillar drill is in the living room, where is your lathe?

[KevinMc]

Hi Julian... thanks for the info... my wife says I can forget that going in the living room mind.

[KevinMc]

do you have room to do this???

Hi thanks...this one seems a bit industrial for my uses....🤔

[KevinMc]

Julian,

If your pillar drill is in the living room, where is your lathe?

Whatever the answer is it could give you a nasty turn

[seventhdevil]

do you have room to do this???

...can you explain the system....I'm guessing that the dust/chip mainly drops into the first bin, with residual dust eventually making it through to the Axminster unit. The only element of that set-up that I'm not clear on is the black unit sitting atop the wheelie-bin.
Les

les, it's a cyclone on top of the wheelie bin and this is simply a cyclone system for people with not much dosh.

the extractor sucks 2000m3 per hour through the cyclone on top of the wheelie bin. any shavings and dust go into the bin and almost nothing gets to the extractor.

after 6-12 months you do get about 2-4" of dust in the bag but that's inevitable i suppose.

the cheapest cyclone is nearly a grand on the axminster option and the most expensive is over £2500 but all mine together only cost £400 (at the time) including the piping and anything else needed to make it work but now it would be about £500.

[julcle]

Seems I put the wrong picture up 

[The Bowler Hatted Turner]

So Julian you have two pillar drills to play with? one in the shed and an identical one in the front room! Yeah I wouldn't get away with it either