Vac attachment for power tools

[Rick Hughes]

I have been busy building a Router Table. On most of my main power tools there is an attachment point where I connect up workshop vac .... this is in simple terms a male spigot ... 40mm diameter onto which I push fit the extract hose.

Anybody know where I can get such a male fitting to fit onto back of fence.

I have made an air 'extract box' on rear of fence ... want to fit vac attach to rear of this box.

no off shelf item I could glue in piece of waste pipe ... but thought I'd ask

[dent]

Why not do it the other way around and use a female connector? On my home-made router table I simply have a hole in the `extract box', and the hose from my dust extractor pushes in to that.

dan.

[Andy Dingley]

I use two sources:

• Local tip, and dead vacuum hoses / pipes / buckets

• Axminster, for the big hose stuff.

My own router table is a crefully sized hole in the back of the MDFbox, and the rigid plastic nozzle of the vacuum hose pushes in there

[Rick Hughes]

Just that all others items already have a male fitting ...

[Rick Hughes]

maybe a spot of skip diving is called for. ... if I can get there before the Pikies

[Roger Mills]

As a bit of an aside, what sort (make/model etc.) of vac do people recommend for workshop use? I find that most domestic vacs soon get clogged up with fine dust (particularly from brickwork/plasterwork rather than woodwork).

[dent]

It shouldn't matter. The various power tools I have with dust ports are male fittings, but so long as the female hole on the extract box is big enough, it will work well enough the other way around.

dan.

[Rick Hughes]

see what you mean now ... I thought you meant 'buy a female fitting'

[Rick Hughes]

I bought a unit that also powers the power tool ... so switches on automatically when you power up tool.

I did a lot of routing on Fermacell ... and nothing is worse than that for fine dust.

[NT]

cyclones work well enough

NT

[TheOldFellow]

4 inches of 32mm waste pipe.

[The Medway Handyman]

A female fitting is a hole surely :-)

[Rick Hughes]

Not necessarily ... but I'll go that route

[Rick Hughes]

I have all sizes of waste pipe (I thought) and none of them were a good fit.

[geoff]

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