It's always nice to do a simple mod to something you've made, which then improves the original immensely ... excellent 👍 My solution is to always have a thick layer😁 of shavings and dust on the floor, which means you don't notice the new dust/shavings

I'm headed to the shop to modify mine! 2.0.... I like it! Thanks Ken, and your followers!

Yep good one kenny, I am never disappointed when watching your videos.

That looks awesome. I wish I had room for a dust collection unit in my shed.

That original video was approx a year ago and i enjoyed it back then, just as much as i enjoyed this one. I'm still amazed that no company has come along and made something like this. Stay Safe, Barry (ENG)

Great simple upgrade to your previous design 🤠

The maths to work out the angle required is pretty simple. It’s 360 (as in 360 degrees) divided by the number of sides and then divide that number by 2 again. Example: for a square it’s 360/4/2

Kenny, a simple solution. I think that the problem is solved. Funny how the strength of magnets can be so different depending on the direction. Good fix.

I might have tried pins. Drive about three lag screws into the stationary piece, cut off the heads, smooth the cuts, drill holes in the hose end to match.

4 years ago I made similar dust collection system. However my system I use 5 inch hoses, I also made my flanges from water closet or toilet flanges. The most labor intensive part was sanding down the raised lettering on the flange face by taping 150 grit sand paper on a sheet of glass and sliding the flange forward and aft until the flange was flat. Then I recessed 1/2 diameter 4 N54 neodymium magnets in each flange. I have never had a flange separate unless I wanted it to. 🤣🛫

Great idea, You can also use this design as an adapter too. Lets say you want to connect to a 2" hose, like from a miter saw. Take the plywood piece, and instead of cutting the internal hole to be 4", make it the diameter of the miter saw hose. The hole doesn't have to be centered, most people put it on the bottom. You can now connect your hose to your miter saw because your magnetic fittings for both sides is the same size, just the internal hole is different.

Hi Kenny, very attracted by this video for some reason! but I think us down under are poles apart 🤣always amused when you Canadians and Americans go to your scrap stock and pull out a bit of walnut and maybe a sheet of ebony to make a jig, we would get some pine 🤣🤣 good jigs though. This is were your 3d printer will come in handy. I know you probably didn't have it then.

Great upgrade. Fun video.

Originally you put the larger number of magnets in the hose end, increasing its weight. Adding the flange added to that weight and increased its bulk. I'd suggest putting that weight and bulk on the tool side.

Excellent!

Thats neat Kenny.

Great Update! Adding the flange is the best way to keep them from sliding off. I learned recently that stacking magnets improve their pull strength. Do you just have one Magnet in each Hole? Or are they stacked? Wondering how many around the hole are really needed, now that the flange helps keep it in place? I see so many people only use (4) around the hole and not hearing about any of them falling off, but they also stack them? And how many Stacked? I know the more, the better. I know it depends on how thick and what type each individual Magnet is. I guess it's just a lot of trial and error? My Luck, of course, I just got done making about 12 circles. Both inner & Outer. Wish I woud have seen your video sooner. I guess I can still modify mine with some sort of flange. It just won't be continuous. Just a circle with flat sides since i can only cut so far into them. Don't want to completely start over....lol

Great modification! I'm making my Octagonal fittings right now and think I'm gonna go for 2, maybe 3 magnets in all 8 positions on both the tool and hose fittings. I love the flange idea, especially for something like the Dewalt Planer. But a much simpler "fix" IMO, to solve just the shear force would seem to be drilling a hole through all the tool fittings and putting in a piece of wooden dowel that sticks up 1/2" and drilling a matching hole on all the hose fittings. Might take an extra second to line them up, but should completely solve the surprise shear problem and be a whole lot easier to modify. Maybe.... Or maybe not, since on yours all you have to modify is the hose side. Shit, what do I know. Think I'm gonna shuddup now.

Great idea. With this latest upgrade, do you think it's still necessary to use a stack of 5 magnets on the flange on the collector side ?

That is pretty slick! I`m also always tickled to see a Busy Bee Tool make an appearance in someones video and it sure doesn`t happen often; only in the Canadian content. Is it the CT 053? I have the Hepa filter on mine. Great video. Thanks for sharing

I would love to do this for my shop but I have a hard enough time with 45 degree miters let alone 22.5. Any reason you went with the octagon shape? I could probably do round fairly easy, would there be any issues with that? I’m still dealing with the $2 miter gauge sawstop gives you lol

I have 124 bags on my bag house and a 15hp blower... Sucks good

Which brand flex hose do you have?

I like to refer to sawdust as Man Glitter, lol