Dust Hood for Planer

[BobN]

I have a 12 1/2" Portable Planer and am looking for plans to make a dust cllection hood for it. I will be connecting a 4" line to it. A while back I saw something on the web about this but i can't find the link anymore. If anyone has any thoughts on this I would appriciate the help.

Thanks Bob N

[MadMark]

Save yourself a bunch of effort and $$$ and break down and spend the $20 to buy one...

What brand planer?

M

[MadMark]

Save yourself a bunch of effort and $$$ and break down and spend the $20 to buy one...

What brand planer?

M

[BobN]

It's a Grizzly Model G8794. It doesn't come with a manufactures dust collector hood. I looked at the Dewalt and Rigid snap on collectors but they are for a flat mating surface, while the Grizzly has a concave back. I might try a piece of 4” PVC with a slot cut in it. That’s what most of the off the shelf units looked like. The planer was a present from my wife and I will be using it for a long time. She notices even the subtlest change in the shop and I don’t see myself putting a yellow planer on the stand in place of the green one.

[Sonny Edmonds]

BobN,
Hi. I bought a Dewalt several years ago now when Home Depot still carried them here. When I went back the next day I leaned they were discontinueing the Dewalt line and didn't have a hood for it.
So I made my own. I used a piece of 4" PVC, and some aluminum sheet metal to form what is probably better than anything I would have bought. Why?
Because I can hook a 4" hose to either side and slip an end cap on the other side. By drilling 3 each, 1/4" holes in the cap, near the bottom, it allows a small amount of air leakage to churn the chips that would collect on that end and whoose-ka, it's a clean operation.
So if you look at the port size and work up a straight section of 4" PVC with an appropriate window and a sheet metal coupler to attach it to the planners port area, you could probably build a darn decient collection port.
Just thought I'd encourage you that you can do it yourself. Hell man, you can do anything if you put your mind to it. Your a woodworker right?
And if it was to turn out like mine, no matter where you move it to you can hook up.
But I'm not familure with your particular planner or shop DC system.
Try looking at it from that angle. It don't have to be purrty, just funktional.

Sonny

[BobN]

Thanks Sonny. I will try the 4" PVC. I like the idea of the cap to use either end. The planer moves around alot to accomidate current projects and stock length. It never fails when fitting up the big project with parts everywhere someone comes in with a rush job and I'm trying to square up some stock while dancing around the other project.

I have a 2 hp Grizzly dust collector with a seperate chip collector. I have 4" PVC main lines and branch off to the equipment from there. I try to keep everything at 4" but each tool seems to have a different size port 2";3"; 2 1/2"; and 4".

I also run a ceiling maunted filter. Saw your picture and added the filter to the front. I will also be upgrading to better bags for the DC unit.

We have a horse farm and my wife loves to take all the sawdust and chips down and use them in the stalls. Last week she even cleaned out by bucket of chips for refinishing.

Thanks again
Bob N

[John Walton]

About a year ago I purchased a Dewalt 733 planer. The planer is great as is the quality. I was however, put off that Dewalt does not include this necessary attachment as part of a whole package. It,s like buying a car without the tires. The unbelievable thing is that the dust hood is $50.00 Can.Total rip off! I made my own. After all I am a woodworker. I do like your idea Sonny, of using PVC pipe and I my try it as seems much more versitle.
Thanks. John

[John Walton]

About a year ago I purchased a Dewalt 733 planer. The planer is great as is the quality. I was however, put off that Dewalt does not include this necessary attachment as part of a whole package. It,s like buying a car without the tires. The unbelievable thing is that the dust hood is $50.00 Can.Total rip off! I made my own. After all I am a woodworker. I do like your idea Sonny, of using PVC pipe and I my try it as seems much more versitle.
Thanks. John

[Bill in BC]

I don't like working with tin so I made mine for next to nothing out of scraps of wood. It collects 100% of the shavings.See pic
Bill in BC


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