Blast gate
One extractor, several machines, one gate open at a time. Without gates, a branched system has no suction anywhere.
One extractor, several machines, one gate open at a time. Without gates, a branched system has no suction anywhere.
Best for: A workshop with fixed ducting to two or more machines
Every figure below is a manufacturer specification read off the listing itself. The judgments are ours.
A 100 mm (3.94 in) sliding blast gate. No EAN is published on this listing.
Fit a gate at every branch, keep them all shut, and open only the one feeding the machine that is running. It is the difference between a ducted system that extracts and one that hisses.
Catalogued and unsold: the American Amazon shop lists the reference with nobody behind it.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
Because air takes the easiest path. An open branch to an idle machine is a wide-open hole, and the extractor draws almost all its air through that rather than through the machine you are using. One gate open at a time is not a refinement — it is what makes the system work at all.
They do the job. What you get for more money is a better seal and a slide that does not jam with dust in the track. On a two-machine shop the cheap ones are fine; on a six-branch system the leakage adds up.
A filter bag is a wear part, and a 500 mm (19.7 in) clamping ring is common enough that this one fits more machines than its own.
Best for: Replacing a split or clogged upper bag on a single-stage chip extractor
A hand-tool hose with eight adapters, three of them stretchable — and the only listing here that publishes a fit warning.
Best for: A random orbital sander and a biscuit joiner on a shop vacuum, where no two ports are the same size
Six gates, which is how many a ducted shop needs — and a published stop, which is the complaint the shelf already had.
Best for: A workshop with fixed four-inch ducting to several machines — one gate at each
Eighty teeth on a 254 mm (10 in) blade: the finish blade for sheet goods and veneered panel, and the wrong blade for ripping anything.
Best for: Crosscutting hardwood and cutting veneered or melamine-faced panel
The one bit that turns a router into a copying machine. Make the template once, cut the part as often as you like.
Best for: Copying a shape repeatedly — templates, patterns, repairs to matching parts
Ninety-six teeth on a 305 mm (12 in) blade, aimed at aluminum and plastic profiles — and larger than any machine reviewed here can take.
Best for: A 305 mm (12 in) chop saw used on aluminum and plastic window profile