Band Saw Dust Collection

The band saw create a tremendous amount of fine dust.

Band saw dust collection. Most newer bandsaws have built in dust ports now but heres how we used to handle it. Is there any way to get dust collection to work on a delta 14 band saw. Its the type of dust that ends all over the shop and in the air you breathe. Bandsaw dust control that works as the tendrils of creeping decrepitude drape ever more tightly about you making dust in the shop becomes less and less of a thrill.

Dust collection port with a shop made shroud that makes bandsawing virtually dust free. I suppose i could drill a hole in the lower cover and attach a second hose to the bandsaw for better dust collection but im not so sure im ready to permanently modify my bandsaw like that just yet. My bandsaw is a delta 14 saw and the only design of any dust collection is a very small port located just below the blade where a vacuum could be attached. My shrouds intake port is much larger see photo and exploded view below.

The dust you see on the bandsaw base is coming from the fairly large gap 116 left by the lower wheel cover when it is attached. In fact is there any bandsaw with respectable dust collection potential. My shop is a mess after i finish a resawing session with walnut. Your lungs just arent manly enough any more to digest a big load of trash every day and the romance of covering every surface in the shop with a thick layer of dust has long since faded away.

Today i build a dust collection port that attaches directly below the table of my 14 bandsaw with rare earth magnets. Before recent improvements in bandsaw design dust control wasnt always a straightforward proposition. The volume of air that this small port could collect isnt enough to keep up with the amount of sawdust that the saw can produce. Ive actually been frustrated for a while now.

Almost all the waste is driven straight down through the table into the lower half of the saw housing with very little urge or opportunity to get away. I have a penn state dust collection system that works well for all other shop tools. It aint pretty but it works. I replaced my bandsaws wimpy 1 12 in.

I came up with a simple and inexpensive way to better control the fine dust produced from the bandsaw. Dust collection is critical both from a health perspective and a productivity perspective.