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High School Friends

Portable Dust Collection System

Bill Ivan

The grant would be used to purchase 3 portable dust collection systems to move around the shop. This system is an improvement over our current use of shop vacs which are designed for cleanup not immediate collection.

Dust collection is an important element of any Wood Shop. We currently have the use of shop vacs and brooms to clean up our space, but with the number of students we have running machines these systems will help improve our shop to function at a more professional level. All of our tools come with a dust collection bag that needs to be empty after each use, but students are not always diligent about that process. This gives us an improved method for controlling the dust. Each of these can be hooked to any tool that we have and allow students to control their sawdust in the moment rather than need another student to vacuum as they go or vacuum themselves at the end of the process. Festool is a company highly respected by woodworkers and has been at the forefront of dust collection for years.

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