How to do dust collection

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Hi,

So I don’t see a lot of guides about dust collection and the posts here in the forum seem unconclusive, so I will glad to get your advice

My use case is:

  1. I want to use M4 to cut 15mm plywood (pine, birch)
  2. I am going to do cuts of about 20-30 mins at a time
  3. I Work outside so there is plenty of ventilation
  4. I need it to be as quiet as possible, I am in an urban area and my family hate the noise
  5. I used “router be gone” to have 52mm Chinese spindle instead of the router so my M4 itself is very quiet, so this is another reason to have a quiet solution
  6. I would like the setup to be mobile if possible
  7. I live in county with 240v power

Any Ideas?
And thank everyone so much, to any other post until now you guys helped out a lot!

Thanks,
Eldar

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If you are outside and don’t care about making a mess you could use a small fan to blow the dust away from the cut area, it would be much quieter than any vacuum, but it would not really collect the dust…kind of the opposite :joy:

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Oh that interesting,
I mean, without vacuum won’t the machine get stuck on the chips?

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Eldar wrote:

I mean, without vacuum won¢t the machine get stuck on the chips?

no, the machine will not get stuck.

If there is too much chip buildup, the sled could end up riding up on the chips
and tilt (affecting your cut)

the worst case would be that if you managed to have a huge amount of chips pile
up aginst the spindle, the friction could cause a fire.

but if you are watching the machine, you can just periodically blow/brush/suck
the chips away instead of having a continuous vaccuum

David Lang

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Ok, I would also like to hear what your chip/dust collection setup is, I am trying to decide which vacuum to get, my current one is super noisy its unbearable

Thanks,
Eldar

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none at the moment.

David Lang