The shop vac for the sanding station is working, but the suction is quite poor. I knocked a bunch of dirt out of the filter, which helped a bit, but in further experimentation none of the dust seemed to get into the bucket.
Additionally, one of the hoses had unattached from one piece of equipment and I couldn’t manage to get it back on.
I don’t know a ton about the shop vac for the sanding station, but I do know that the wood lathes could benefit from better dust collection for the sanding steps of any project, and I just wanted to throw in those two cents in case the improvement / upgrade of that shop vac can be done in a way that might allow for the lathes to get connected in to the system in the future. If not that’s fine, I imagine there will be another opportunity to optimize if and when we shuffle this equipment around in the future.
Ideally we get both of these stations hooked up to dust collection, but that is a longer project. We should definitely address this in the interim with something that will be adequate until we can get a full dust collection system hook up for it.
I wanted to clarify. While I managed to knock a lot of dust out of the filter, I never managed to get it to a point where it looked ‘clean’. I would imagine a new filter might be the necessary fix for the suction.
Thank for doing the cleaning. I wonder if a hose is clogged?