That's a good point Mike about the small dedicated shopvacs right at the tool.
By the time you figure the investment in thundering central vacs and the real estate used for properly piping to each machine, a smaller dedicated vac seems to make a lot of sense in a small shop.
I have 2 shop vacs in my shop now and a small cyclone system for the table saw and planer.
The shop vac runs into a 20 gallon can, in which I have a dust bag off a leaf blower attached to the inlet side.
Most of the coarse stuff gets caught in the bag leaving only the real fine stuff to go on to the shopvac filter.
Sanding and bandsawing make the biggest clouds of dangerous dust in my shop.
Routing debris is easy to control today except for pattern work and this still has me stumped.
Bob
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