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General Category => General Scroll Saw Talk => Topic started by: Claymore on March 23, 2017, 03:07:35 pm

Title: Excalibur/Axminster EX30 Dust Extraction Mods
Post by: Claymore on March 23, 2017, 03:07:35 pm: Hi,
Here`s a link to a post i made to the UK scrollsaw forum regarding dust extraction on my EX30 scrollsaw, its quite a neat mod and is much better than the standard set up. In my other posts about the Bouncy Castle Blower Dust Extractor it explains how i did the project (you can also use any extractor with a 100mm port.
http://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/post1136759.html#p1136759
http://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/workshop-hacks-t102950.html

Cheers
Brian
Title: Re: Excalibur/Axminster EX30 Dust Extraction Mods
Post by: Toneman on March 25, 2017, 09:43:19 am: Very clever Claymore! I like it! I do simply cannot find a shop vac that will hold up to 5 hr of scrolling! The motors just do not last. I have no room for a dust collector and have tried to plug in the shop vac into my foot control but the constant stopping and starting seems to burn up the motors on the shop vacs; so I just put up with the dust and vac up at the end of the day.
Title: Re: Excalibur/Axminster EX30 Dust Extraction Mods
Post by: Wooden Lace on March 25, 2017, 12:21:42 pm: I have a pieced together dust control system very similar to the new Scrollnado, which takes the dust away right by the hole, both at the top and bottom of the table. Works very well with my Fein vacuum. They are quite pricey...around $400, and even they don't last forever. I've been scrolling for about 15 years, and am on my third vacuum.

I use my saw many hours a day, but don't have the vac hooked in with the saw. As was stated, the constant on-off really shortens the life of the vac, and at that price, I don't want anything to shorten it!
Nancy
Title: Re: Excalibur/Axminster EX30 Dust Extraction Mods
Post by: herrwood on March 25, 2017, 01:34:08 pm: I like you dust set up I have a dewalt but it should work just as well.
Title: Re: Excalibur/Axminster EX30 Dust Extraction Mods
Post by: dirtrider73068 on March 25, 2017, 10:32:44 pm: Harbor freight has a smaller dust collector thats on rollers for about 150.
Title: Re: Excalibur/Axminster EX30 Dust Extraction Mods
Post by: Swampy on March 26, 2017, 04:33:38 pm: Quote from: Claymore on March 23, 2017, 03:07:35 pm
Hi,
Here`s a link to a post i made to the UK scrollsaw forum regarding dust extraction on my EX30 scrollsaw, its quite a neat mod and is much better than the standard set up. In my other posts about the Bouncy Castle Blower Dust Extractor it explains how i did the project (you can also use any extractor with a 100mm port.
http://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/post1136759.html#p1136759
http://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/workshop-hacks-t102950.html

Cheers
Brian

That is a brilliant solution Claymore! I'm now on the hunt for one of those...

Swampy
Title: Re: Excalibur/Axminster EX30 Dust Extraction Mods
Post by: Claymore on April 05, 2017, 02:34:53 pm: Quote from: Wooden Lace on March 25, 2017, 12:21:42 pm
I have a pieced together dust control system very similar to the new Scrollnado, which takes the dust away right by the hole, both at the top and bottom of the table. Works very well with my Fein vacuum. They are quite pricey...around $400, and even they don't last forever. I've been scrolling for about 15 years, and am on my third vacuum.

I use my saw many hours a day, but don't have the vac hooked in with the saw. As was stated, the constant on-off really shortens the life of the vac, and at that price, I don't want anything to shorten it!
Nancy

Hi Nancy,
Do you have any pictures of your solution for the EX30 dust extraction?

Thanks
Brian :)