Tuesday Tools Of the Week: Sanding Dust Mitigation

20 Mar 22:

Sanding is so much fun that we can't wait to do it all day long, and even had lights installed in the Carriage House so we can sand late into the evening! But we don't like the sanding dust, so we connect our sander to a 10 Gallon Shop-Vac, with a Dust Deputy Cyclonic Particle Separator installed in-line from the sander to the vacuum. We also use a HEPA filter in the Shop-Vac.

EDIT! It works a lot better when it is hooked up correctly. In the photo above it is not connected correctly, the sander hose goes into the side port and the vac hose goes into the top port :) 

Tuesday Tool Of the Week