Crude, Cheap and Effective Dust Shroud

[Vtshopdog]

My latest purchase was a Bosch Bulldog SDS rotary hammer to clean up a lumpy concrete floor in our 100 year old bungalow basement.  I've used and owned various hammer drills but never one with a hammer only mode. 

Fired it up for the first time a couple days ago and concrete chips flying into my face plus dust everywhere did not suit my Festool owning sensibilities.  There is a fair bit of chisel work to do on this project so needed to find some way to mitigate the dust and chips.  Bosch makes a nice looking vacuum dust shroud, but it's oriented to drilling plus costs $50, so cheap-wad that I am came up with this thing.  Was hoping to just mitigate the mess and did not expect it to work very well, but the stupid thing is super clean to the point that almost no dust gets out.

One clear disposable Tupperware with 3x bit access and 2x vacuum ports all cut with hole saws.  I can see through the Tupperware well enough to do what's needed, chips stay in the unit instead of flying all over and dust goes up the hose to my Dust Deputy.  Took all of 5 minutes to make and can see more places where making another one specific to some job or tool will be useful.

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[Crazyraceguy]

Just further proof that things don't have to be complicated or fancy to work as needed.

 

[Peter_C]

That's awesome! I might have to make a version of said tool. Doubt it would work on a tile busting bit, which is one of the messiest things a demo hammer does; might require a larger bin. I will have to think about it.

Just saw the new Milwaukee version which is pretty nice, but not FULL coverage (Shown below). I have the Bosch attachment for my Bosch demo/roto hammers that attaches over the top of the bit. Then two more of the Bosch hole drilling units which are very similar to Milwaukee's version...hmmm.

 

[squall_line]

Hand to God, my second Festool "accessory" was a deep, round Ziploc leftover container that I cut a hole in and reamed out with a Dremel to fit the metal wand on the cleaning set (my first accessory) I bought for my CT-MINI back in 2016.  The paint on my house was literally peeling off in chunks, and this was used to keep the pieces from getting everywhere as the large chunks exploded off of the siding or broke apart as they hit the tube.

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It was all lead paint, and Festool was pretty much the only Full-unit HEPA option available locally when I got it.  Between the bunny suit coveralls and the scaffolding in the blazing June sun, it was a miserable job, but almost all of the paint on the south facing wall of the house came off without a scraper.

I miss the deep covered porch and the hardwood floors and oak trim throughout the entire house, but I don't miss the tiny barely-700 square foot size; the steep, narrow, inaccessible stairs to the attic; the on-street parking; the galvanized pipes; the knob-and-tube wiring; or the lead paint everywhere you turned.  It was my first, and it had a ton of character.

 

[Vtshopdog]

LOL:

Works with hand tools too

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And made me reminisce for this duct tape and Voile strap rig for my Hackzall when enlarging a cook top opening a few years back:

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[Michael Kellough]

I shunned duct tape for a couple decades because removing it nearly always left a sticky mess but this No Reside version really works well