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   renee_ambrose | Jul 27, 2011 06:44am | #1

   Central Vacs for Woodworking

   I work for an online retailer of central vacuum systems.  We have had many customers install central vacuums in their woodworking shops.  There are lots of advantages beyond the idea of the toe-kick.  You can also connect the system to your tools to collect the sawdust as you work.  Just about any central vacuum system will beat a shop vacuum.  You will want a bagless system that you can vent outside because bags ot filters would quickly become impregnated with fine sawdust. The three bagless systems we usually recommend would be Imperium, Vacu-Maid, or Vacuflo.  There are some innovative tools, like the HolsterVac that woodworkers really love.  The price point varies, but our company sells a complete kit for woodworkers for $800 that includes the most popular woodworking accessories.  You could go significantly less or significantly more, depending on what you want to add to the system.

   Here's the address of that $800 system.

   http://www.centralvacuumstores.com/Central-Vacuum/Imperium/Templates/Woodworking-Shop-Vacuum-Package.php

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   SteveSchoene | Jul 29, 2011 08:12am | #2

   Central vacuum's may be most shop vac's.  But, shop vac's, even the top of the line models by Festool or Fein, etc.  don't take the place of a dust collection system.  For keeping dust  and chipsfrom stationary machines, especially jointers and planers, or for operating several machines at once, you definately need the much greater capacity of a real dust collector, not a vacuum cleaner. 

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   RalphBarker | Jul 30, 2011 10:53am | #3

   old threads and ads/spam

   Steve, it appears Renee is one of those people hired to search the Web forums for advertizing/spamming opportunities. The original post is from 2004.