Hi All -
My Oneida Cyclone is on order thanks to the best wife known to man (on our 20th Anniversary, she said, "It doesn't always have to be about the wife getting a great gift, why don't you order the dust collector you want"!!!) - so I did . One Oneida V-3000 is on way and due at the end of next week.
My questions concern ducting. I have read all the posts I can find and Bill P's site, but I am still torn between 26g Snaplock or PVC drain pipe (6" of course). I have a basement shop that is 18 x 30 with lots of water and heating pipes across the plaster ceiling so I have to hang everything and noise is a consideration as well as cost. Longest run is about 24', and I will need 6 drops off main (lotsa wyes!) for 1) miter saw, 2) TS, 3)Jointer/planer/router group, 4)BS/Performax type sander, 5) OSS/DIsk sander, 6) lathe/floor sweep.
So, what is quietest? Is PVC really better flow wise? How painful is it to seal elbows with snaplock? Any ideas to keep cost down? Any general recommendations from those who have done this? What have folks done for blast gates - cheap plastic ones at main trunk wyes ok?
I am going from a modified HF with Wynn cartdridge DC with 4" pipe along one wall so this is like going from a Fiesta to a Escalade to me!
Any comments appreciated!
Chris