Festool CT Midi and Oneida UDDRC for F for CNC dust collection

[WillAdams]

Having a harder time with this than I thought, and suspect I made a mistake.

Bought a Festool CT Midi and an Oneida Ultimate Dust Deputy Retrofit Cyclone for Festool --- pretty much have them together (need to make one correction from a stupid mistake) but am coming up short in terms of connecting to my existing small size shop vac-oriented dust shoe.

I have a 1 1/4" extension wand coming out of the dust shoe, and I'd like a straight/direct connection to the Dust Deputy, but the problem is the included Festool hose has a right-angle to it which I wasn't expecting, and the fitting at the other end is a special shape which doesn't match up to the extension wand.

I'm thinking I can take advantage of the right angle and attach it to the Dust Deputy pointing straight up, but I'm flummoxed by how to get from the odd Festool connector to the bog-standard 1 1/4" extension wand intake. I did set up a temporary bodge of a PVC pipe connector and two short lengths of bilge hose (1 1/4" and 1 1/8"), but I'm not wild about how the PVC pipe connector fits to the Festool connector.

Is it possible to remove the Festool connector and replace it with something which would suit my needs?

Or, would the "Curved Hand Tube D36 Poly" attach nicely to the hose which I have?

 

[rst]

I have this same setup.  You can buy anti- static right angle connectors from Oneida Air Systems #AXD600103 this allows you to use their hose.  I've bought and used a bunch of them.

 

[WillAdams]

Thanks!

If they sold the hose which is used for the connection between the cyclone and the vacuum I'd gladly buy it.

Pretty satisfied with the Festool hose clamped to the cyclone with the angle pointing up --- just wish that I could better resolve connecting it to the 1 1/4" extension wand --- If the Curved Hand Tube D36 Poly fits the hose, I'll gladly get one of those and then re-work the dust shoe to fit it if need be.

EDIT:

One concern about the above is apparently the hand tube isn't anti-static.

Instead, I'm going w/ a simpler solution --- removing the connector and using a 1.5" --1.5" flexible coupler to connect it to the extension wand

FURTHER EDIT: --- except that didn't work. Instead, I just used a standard PVC pipe coupler (wrapped in conductive tape) and a short length of blind cord wrapped into the spiral corrugation of the hose.

 

[todd_fuller]

There's a lot of anti-static stuff out there, it's just not coming from the woodworking industry. I've recently done a bit of a deep dive looking to put together a UDD but without the price and size. Non-festool hoses can be quite a bit cheaper... these are used in ESD-sensitive areas, flammable or hazardous dust collection, so all the usual attachments are available in metal or conductive plastics. A few names to look for are Flexaust, Clayton, Dynabrade, Nilfisk. Look for 'conductive' or 'dissipative' rather than anti-static.

Also to mirror rst, the Oneida-Air conductive elbows are good. Very low resistivity.

 

[WillAdams]

Thanks! Still looking a bit.

It's working pretty well, just a few wrinkles:

- want to replace the old vacuum extension wand which I'm using to connect the vacuum to the CNC machine's dust shoe with a length of transparent tubing (on order)
- the PVC coupler I'm using to transition from the bare hose to the vacuum extension wand keeps catching longer splinters and causing a clog --- EDIT: cut some strips of metallic tape and covered over the gap --- hopefully that fixes it, but it makes the coupler hard to put on over the extension wand (though maybe this will work out when I get the transparent tubing)

Is there a connector which goes from a CT midi bare hose to a 1.25" (o.d.) tube?