Sanding Box

[Aaron Beaver]

I am wanting to make one of those sanding boxes that you put under the wood that has a port for your dust collector to suck the dust down. I was just going to make it with scrap wood and some perforated piece in the top. My orbital sander has a bag on it, but it doesn't nearly catch everything and I think this would help control a lot of that dust that gets on my table when sanding.

My question: Is there any considertation I should take into account when deciding the depth of the box? If I don't make it real deep I can just buy and 4" adapter to fit in a smaller hole for the dust collection.

Thanks

[Jeff Sudmeier]

You are going to want to take advantage of all of the SCM that your dust collector has. If you run 6" pipe, you need to make a 6" opening for the dust collector. These things really need everything your dust collector has to work really well.