I got rid of both bags and put my hose where it catches the dust and just lets the chips fall. The dust goes out the wall and I open the door and vacuum up the chips. My tapering machines are enclosed in plexiglass. I have dust collection pipes set up right behind the headstock on a couple of my lathes to catch chips and dust when doing phenolic ferrules and such.By piping it through the wall, and getting rid of the bag, what do you mean? The plastic bag that all the chips and dust goes in, or the white fabric filter bag?
Joe
If you want to catch chips, get one of those cyclone garbage can tops and pipe it through that before it goes out the wall. The bags are almost useless and very unsafe to me.