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Thread: Improved Dust Collection Hood for Rigid Sander

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    Improved Dust Collection Hood for Rigid Sander

    I've got the oscillating Ridge sander that everybody else has and I've been struggling for a while to connect it to my dust collection.

    Previous attempt was just a 6" hose clamped to the side, which worked okay, but was always causing problems.

    I'm now moved onto a better approach:

    Starting with a 10"x6" HVAC boot from the big box store mounted to the back using a couple of 1"x1/2" sticks. Onto those I added a side flap with magnets, and the another small piece of plywood over the top, which slots into the side flap, and also into a small groove on the right hand side. Improves dust collection about 100x, and I can remove almost all of it to use the round bits on either end, replace the paper, or change to the spindle.

    Material total $10 for the boot, the rest made of scrap.


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    Interesting but your photos don't show for me.

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    I checked in another browser and it appears to be working for me. How do these work for you?
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    Photos show now, thanks.

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