Drill dust ctrl for sanding ball

[new2woodwrk]

A full write up on the Drill dust control for sanding map and ball on my blog

I went to Harbor Freight the other day and bought a 180 grit sanding ball (mop).

I hooked it up and used it on the dragon puzzle I just cut. It worked really well, except it threw mop dust all over the place and once in awhile ripped the piece out of my hand sent it flying across the shop.

I clamped 2 corner clamps to the drill table, cut a piece of scrap ply the width of my drill table and cut a hole in it for a PVC pipe to hook up to my shop vac.

The plywood serves 2 purposes:

One to stop the dust from the ball and one to stop flinging things out of my hands across the room

Thanks for reading

[munzieb]

I use the HF Sanding ball a lot. Like you, I have to careful about how much pressure I put on the piece and it does generate a lot of scotch-brite fibers. I believe your set up should work good to reduce the fibers from flying all around. I stumbled on this DYI attachment in Pinterest and plan to build it in the next few weeks. Forstner bits definitely create a lot of wood chips.

Edited April 20, 2018 by munzieb
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[new2woodwrk]

1 hour ago, munzieb said:

I use the HF Sanding ball a lot. Like you, I have to careful about how much pressure I put on the piece and it does generate a lot of scotch-brite fibers. I believe your set up should work good to reduce the fibers from flying all around. I stumbled on this DYI attachment in Pinterest and plan to build it in the next few weeks. Forstner bits definitely create a lot of wood chips.

Yah, I saw/have that plan also - I have another one that uses a welding magnet I want to try first.

I'll see if I can find it and post it

Found it - every easy

 

Edited April 20, 2018 by new2woodwrk

[amazingkevin]

I've lots of trouble finding flying pieces till I made a backdrop curtain.

[Bpardue]

On 4/20/2018 at 1:30 PM, munzieb said:

I use the HF Sanding ball a lot. Like you, I have to careful about how much pressure I put on the piece and it does generate a lot of scotch-brite fibers. I believe your set up should work good to reduce the fibers from flying all around. I stumbled on this DYI attachment in Pinterest and plan to build it in the next few weeks. Forstner bits definitely create a lot of wood chips.

Being trying to figure out a collection port for my drill press for awhile now. I think I will get this a shot.