ear3
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Here is the current setup for dust collection with my Kapexs
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Since I cut both with the garage door open and closed, I settled upon this rigging system with zip ties around the hose to easily mount and unmount the hose.
I'm thinking now though about clearing out the accessories stored behind the saw and building a cabinet in the space between the top of the Kapex handle and the garage door. I would then make some sort of dust port on the bottom of the cabinet, similar to what [member=11196]Peter Parfitt[/member] did with his dust hub (though with only a single inlet and outlet), The shop vac could then be connected or disconnected to the hub as needed, but I would need a short run of hose that went directly from the Kapex to the hub.
So I'm in need of a super flexible hose that is also compatible/connectable to the Kapex dust port -- it needs to be much more flexible than the cloth Festool hose, or the 1 7/8 orange Ridgid hose I currently use. In the 90 degree cutting position, the Kapex dust port would probably be only about 8-12 inches away from the dust hub on the underside of the proposed cabinet, but if I'm cutting a right 45 degree miter, or tilting the saw for a left 45 degree bevel, that suddenly adds on another 8-12 inches, So the hose ideally should be able to expand or contract as needed, sort of like the way the hose with wire ribbing does. Anyone know a source for the type of hose I'm talking about?
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Since I cut both with the garage door open and closed, I settled upon this rigging system with zip ties around the hose to easily mount and unmount the hose.
I'm thinking now though about clearing out the accessories stored behind the saw and building a cabinet in the space between the top of the Kapex handle and the garage door. I would then make some sort of dust port on the bottom of the cabinet, similar to what [member=11196]Peter Parfitt[/member] did with his dust hub (though with only a single inlet and outlet), The shop vac could then be connected or disconnected to the hub as needed, but I would need a short run of hose that went directly from the Kapex to the hub.
So I'm in need of a super flexible hose that is also compatible/connectable to the Kapex dust port -- it needs to be much more flexible than the cloth Festool hose, or the 1 7/8 orange Ridgid hose I currently use. In the 90 degree cutting position, the Kapex dust port would probably be only about 8-12 inches away from the dust hub on the underside of the proposed cabinet, but if I'm cutting a right 45 degree miter, or tilting the saw for a left 45 degree bevel, that suddenly adds on another 8-12 inches, So the hose ideally should be able to expand or contract as needed, sort of like the way the hose with wire ribbing does. Anyone know a source for the type of hose I'm talking about?
