Building and maintaining wooden boats is dusty work, especially when power tools are involved. They can speed the work but they create a lot of dust, and none of it should be breathed in, whether it is from wood, glue, or paint. My thickness planer, jointer, tablesaw, and downdraft table have been connected to a dust collector with a 1-hp motor by 4″ hoses, but I’ve only recently added a system that works equally for the smaller tools. I had been relying on a shop-vac and the cloth dust bags that come with the sanders, but the shop-vac and its clunky 7′ hose aren’t convenient to use, and the bags on the sanding tools aren’t very effective.I recently bought a Cen-Tec Quick Click hose and adapter set that solves both problems and now draws dust from my bandsaw, 6 x 48 belt sander, drill press, drum sander, 12′ disc sander, and random-orbit sander. In my single-car-garage shop, the 16' hose can reach all of the tools without moving the shop vac.
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Absolutely super. I was just wondering if this product was an actual thing a few days ago as I jury rigged my shop vac up to my random orbital sander with the usual mix of swearing and electrical tape.
Thanks for the great recommendation, Chris. Ordered!
Great article! I bought the Cen-Tec package through Amazon about six months ago and it has been a game changer for me since I hate getting dust on me and getting it all over my shop. Although I have only used it with my orbital sander and miter saw, this article is really going to help me get the rest of my shop tools connected to the system. Thanks again for this article!
I bought a set as well, with the 20′ hose. Thanks for the article, Chris!
The headgear hose from a CPAP machine can make a great interface between some vacuum hoses and power sander exhaust ports, depending on fit.