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Builders’ Tip: A Simple Angle Grinder Dust Collector
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Click for larger image. | No cleanup is required when I use my angle grinder to cut plaster and tile indoors.
As shown in the accompanying drawing, I created a dust collector for my angle grinder using a one-gallon milk jug.
- I simply cut the bottom off the jug and attached the neck of the jug to a shop vacuum hose with duct tape.
- When it’s time to cut the tiles, my helper positions the dust collector just so.
- There’s no dust in the air during or after the job because the vacuum gets it all.
I have found that the harder plastic laundry detergent jugs work just as well as milk jugs, too.
— David Crosby, Santa Fe, N.M.
Tips & Techniques provided by Fine Homebuilding.
©2009 The Taunton Press
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