Great idea, Steve...

As info, if you have a Bosch ROS the Bosch hose fits it exactly...VAC005 or the adapter RS006...just in case...

 

I use a makita portable router and the bosh hose/adapter also works great for me.
The hose adapter setup also fits the kreg pocket hole dust out connector.

 

I have thought of trying that as we have several old hoses around. DW uses a CPAP & I use a BiPAP.

 

You are lucky, the C-Pap actually closed off my breathing. Weak tissues because of throat cancer some time ago.

Good use of material, that was a very flexible hose on that thing.

 

excellent idea...

 

Have a number of those hoses about as they need to be replaced periodically. Never thought of that approach to using them. Thanks.

 

Good thinking Steve.

I have the Bosc hose kit for my jig saw but have never used it. Never seem like a long time but I've only had it a few year or so.

 

Tried that using the hose from my C_PAP unit a week ago. Stuffed the small hose into the shop-vac hose, closed off the opening slop using some painters tape, and turned on the vac. Worked great for about 5 minutes, then tripped the overheat breaker in the vac unit--not enough air flow. Need to make a "throttle plate" hose adapter so I can control bleed air flow to keep the shop vac cool enough.

 

That's why we love these forums - sometimes the simple and obvious escapes us and we need others to tickle our memories or imagination.

This is a great use for hoses that get replaced long before they actually expire. I keep smaller hoses around for the reasons stated, but never thought of going even smaller, even though it makes perfect sense. The C-Pap machine hoses are bigger than any of my palm sander ports, so should offer a fair flow.

Thanks.

 

I use a Bosch ROS with a Bosch hose adapter and not the bag connected to a Fein Turbo I VAC. It works great. I had to touch up some dry wall in the house which usually is a messy job with dust every where but with the Fein Turbo there was almost no dust. I wish I had know about this before.

 

When I have to sand drywall, I use my Dust Deputy to extend the time between cleaning the filter from a few minutes to twenty minutes.

Now that I've made my Super Dust Deputy and "2 horse" HF collector portable, they will be part of my project dust solution (20' hose).

I've used this combo to clean the yard of pine cones and leaves and it works great. It worked so good, I used it on the gravel parking lot of the wife's store, to pick up all the paint scrapings left behind by the painters. Though it grabbed a lot of gravel, it all spun out in the cyclone, so nothing hit the impellers.

Said another way, any dust collection you can adapt is a good thing.