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10/19/14       
Lester Gillett Member

I use a woodmaster planer to rip lumber
to size. I have a 2hp dc with a 4" pipe.
The dust collects on the side of the blade
and is not pulled out. Has any one with a
WM seen this.

Lester

10/19/14       #2: woodmaster planer ...
mjr Member

Try moving rip saw blades to center of the accessiors shaft and try that

10/20/14       #3: woodmaster planer ...
cabinetmaker

One of the tricks we use in our shop to get a lot more volume is to take off the y pants splitter @ the smaller collectors on place a 6" collar on it. We run 6" to the machine and put another collar on the machine and get the volume up. We have also done this on our edgebander and slider.

Make sure you don't have a lot of 4" hose in between the collector and the planer. it in itself is very inefficient

10/21/14       #4: woodmaster planer ...
Lester Gillett Member

Cabinetmaker I have the 4" center pipe
on my planer hood. I was thinking of
putting two 5" pipes on each side of the
hood and run those into a 5" y connector
then a 5" pipe to the collector. I am going
to try to put a photo of my shop showing
the hose lay out.

Lester


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10/21/14       #5: woodmaster planer ...
cabinetmaker

Nice shop !

The amount of hose you have in your main line is killing your ability to keep a good volume going. If you will hard pipe as much as you can to the machines and use 90 sweeps instead of 90 degree elbows it will decrease the resistance you are experiencing from the 90 degree L's.

Look online @ air handling systems and blast gate company. They show their 90's as a much wider sweep. I would think the idea of the 2-5's may work, but get to the Y pants with at least a 6" pipe.

We have a 15 hp collector and a 10hp collector and it did take some serious work and constant reworking until we also got it just right. I will post a few pics in the am.

Good luck

10/22/14       #6: woodmaster planer ...
Bruce H

The flex pipe to the planer isn't helping. I'd hard pipe and flex the last foot or so for hood movement.

10/23/14       #7: woodmaster planer ...
Ken Member

"I was thinking of
putting two 5" pipes on each side of the
hood and run those into a 5" y connector
then a 5" pipe to the collector" This isn't going to work. A 5" pipe requires 550 cfm to maintain 4000 fps, combine 2 5" pipes and you need 1100 cfm which is obtain with a 7" pipe. 2 4" pipes to a 6" will also work.

10/24/14       #8: woodmaster planer ...
Lester Gillett Member

I think I have a plan to make my piping
to the planer. The inlet size on the collector is 5" and the pipe on the planer
is 4". I was thinking of a wye 5" at the
collector and use that size for the main
line. Then use a 4 to 5" reducer at the
planer to hook up to the 5" line. As you
see in the photo of my shop I have 3
4" hoses and 1 3" at the ras plus a 1.25
for my sander. What I would like to ask
is should I put a 6" main line or will the 5"
line work ? Also will the 4 to 5" reducer
be ok or should I put a 5" pipe on the hood ?
Lester

12/3/14       #9: woodmaster planer ...
Mike O'Neill  Member

With these planers, the chips are thrown toward the infeed side, where some escape and some bounce off the inside of the cover and scatter all directions.
I made a temporary plywood cover as a test, putting the dust port at the front where the chips are going anyway. Also removed the chipbreaker. It was still throwing some over the cutterhead on top of the board on the outfeed end. So I put the vertical board just above the cutterhead to minimize this. The result has been a vast improvement in chip collection. I estimate 95% fewer chips escaping. I'm still tinkering with this, but will eventually modify the original metal cover to put the dust port at the front.


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12/30/14       #11: woodmaster planer ...
Lester Gillett Member

After looking at several web sites about
the dust collection for a Woodmaster, I
made a change to my set up. I removed
the long flex pipe and added a straight
4" metal pipe. That helped a lot and here
are two photos of the change.


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