Choosing 4" Dust Collection Hoses and Fittings 

The expandable hose seems like a great idea until use start to use it. It’s heavy and puts a lot of stress on tool connection points. I regret ever buying that hose and would gladly trade for 40 feet of clear hose any day

I love when my hose have on something see thru

Dust collection systems are really not designed to pick up long, stringy shavings from woodturning - basically comes down to the fact that shavings are not dust. The suggestion in this video that it is OK to pick up stringy shavings from wet (or dry) shavings should be removed. Use the dust collection system for collecting sanding DUST at the lathe, but not woodturning shavings. You will save yourself a whole lot of headache if you do not expect your dust collector to catch your woodturning shavings - sweep them into piles and bag them separately. You will change your dust collector bin far less frequently and avoid major clogs.

Rockler, this was a huge missed opportunity to show off any quick connect fittings in use throughout the video, rather the those screw on hose clamps. And then at the end you flew through them so fast it was impossible to see them all even with hitting the pause button.

I use a combination of these hoses and their quality is incredibly good as compared what I have purchased elsewhere. I have dragged the 4" blue hose around my garage floor for a few years and it has held up very well, much to my surprise. My biggest complaint is with the keyed bridge hose clamps, the ones that have a hump in them to crossover a rib in the hose to make a cleaner, better seal. They only work on the blue hoses that are "Clockwise" wound when looking down the end of the hose. The clear hose is "Counterclockwise" wound??? Rockler needs to clearly state this on the clamp package, and how about making a " Counterclockwise" clamp for the clear hose? I get for whatever reason the hoses are made the way they are, but the clamps should be able to be made to fit either fairly easily.

Thanks for making this video. I like the helpful descriptions of my options.

I find it funny that He always has the Hose connected and then shows an easy turn of the clamp. Totally skipping how you nearly break your wrists, trying to get the hose on to a 4" adapter or machine.

Hi, first let me say that I really liked your video. It gave me a lot to think about, it was pretty instructive. But I have a question, it's for the dust collection system that I'll be building for my very small bedroom shop and its about piping, PVC verses the flexible hoses. I just want no costly mistakes. Ok, my Shop-Vac is a 6.5HP with a 2 1/2" hose attachment. Now here are my questions. Should I stick to the 2 1/2" piping or should I use larger PVC pipping like 3 or 4"? Will the larger hose give me more suction towards chips and dust, or it would be the exact same as if I would use a 2 1/2" pipping? And 2nd question. I know that flexible hose is not as good of an idea, cause the ridges cause loss of suction. But let's say that I have a fair amount of flexible hose, and I want to build my dust col system. It Would be for about 6 tools, or 6 hoses, 4 tools, and 2 loose hoses for hand tools and clean up. So meaning 6 Blast-Gates. I still need to ask. If I'd use flexible hose, BUT at the exact length between each connector, no bending of it, fairly tight fits, would the loss of suction still be the same issue, cause of the ridges? Or it could do the job? OR should I just stick to PVC? Please let me know. I'd greatly appreciate your help. Thanks

You didn’t state if the hose material was made from PVC or TPU.

Did anyone else think this was a DUST short film?

Never cared for Rockler's high prices. With so many people out of work from the Covid disaster, Rockler should slash prices by 30%.

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