Hello, I have this shop vac, apparently with a 2.5" hose. I also have the sienci dust shoe (the new one).
What I’m trying to do is have a suspended hose that stays on the dust shoe semi permanent and have the ability to attach that to my shop vacs 2.5" hose since I move it around the shop.
Would I need an adapter on the dust shoe to accept a 2.5" 20 foot hose then attach another adapter on the shop vac side thats 2.5" to 2.5"? Not sure if such a product exists.
This is what I did maybe it works for you too. I built the cyclone from the video and made sure I could attach the existing vacuum hose and another hose that I bought to the pvc fittings I bought to make the cyclone. The cyclone really does spin and catch a lot of stuff and saves on vacuum bags. The other benefit is you can just disconnect the shop vac to vac the floor or whatever without messing with the hose that goes to the cnc.
So in your drawing I guess replace the adapter with the cyclone and build the cyclone to be the adapter as well. That’s my 2 cents.
Looks good, couple questions: do you use a 2.5" hose from your dust shoe to the cyclone? And would one of those couplers do the job to connect a 2.5" hose to the 2" dust shoe?
Here is what I ended up with on top of my buckets.
I have a Dewalt vacuum that uses a 1 7/8" hose. The hose I purchased to go from the cyclone to the dust shoe is also a 1 7/8" hose. It cost about $40 on amazon and was the most expensive part of the build. It came with some adapters and one of them fit nice over the pvc. The other side I 3D printed an adapter.
Your 2.5" hose is bigger than the pvc parts he used but they make all kinds of pvc parts and maybe you can figure something out for connecting. You could also make the whole pvc part out of bigger pvc pipe as I think your shop vac probably moves more air than mine.
There was also a second part to the video linked at the end of the video, not sure if you watched it but he used two more buckets to beef it up a bit because it will collapse if you block the intake with the original design.
Edit: If you find something close to fitting but a bit to small, like maybe the coupling for a 2" pvc pipe, you can wrap with duct tape to get a good fit. I’d bring the hose to Home Depot or Lowe’s, or just the end if it’s removable, and mess around in the plumbing section and see what you can come up with.
Using 1 7/8" hose for vacuum only set up. Any issues having enough vacuum I have a 3 1/2 h.p Ridgid vacuum and my vacuum pick up from sienci is close to the 1/7/8" I think…On another note I will probably add a dust collection but on my budget its on the list…
My vacuum is a DeWALT DXV09P. It’s a 9 gallon vac with 5.0 peak HP. It has plenty of suction. I don’t think you lose much suction with the bucket cyclone. You can use silicone to seal the fittings if they don’t come out tight and the bucket to bucket joint is pretty tight. I have to be careful to not block of the end of the vacuum hose because the sides of the buckets will cave in.
If you make your own cyclone like I did make sure you suspend the vacuum hoses at the top to take some of the weight off them. If you look closely you can see cracks in my bucket around the fittings. This would have been prevented or at least slowed down if I had done that from the beginning. I did suspend mine but not until I had the cracking.
I don’t use my dust shoe very often anymore because I have an enclosure to keep the dust contained and I like the unobstructed view. I do a bulk vacuum after every tool path and a pretty thorough one after each project to keep things clean. When I did use my dust shoe I remember it got most of the dust. It would miss some around the edges of the work piece because the bristles no longer make a soft seal.
In case your not aware I’ll also say that you don’t want your bristles touching the work. If they touch the work when they transition from moving right to left etc, they push up on the shoe and can adversely affect a carve depending on the rigidity of your mill.
The simple and cheap cyclone has saved me a ton of vacuum bags and has easily paid for itself because as I’m sure you know vacuum bags aren’t exactly cheap.
Question has anyone just use a vacuum to get started especially with the mdf surfacing process ?
Also any help on vacuum hoses seems like the big box store sells short hoses ?
