POWERTEC70169 Mini Gulp Dust Hood Collector with 4" ID Port - ABS Plastic Fitting for Woodworking Dust Collection Hose

Being a woodturner I create lots of sanding dust. I use this attached to a 2hp dust collector with a clothes dryer vent hose to extract dust. It is very efficient in polling the dust away from me and into the dust collector bag.

It is plastic, but it is made well. Very happy and recommend.

The media could not be loaded. I do a lot of knife building including making handles., grinding blades etc.I frequently use a die grinder with carbide rasps and a Foredom flex shaft grinder also with carbide rasps and bits for roughing out handles. Those tools work great but they make a big mess.This collection hood is the right size but the wrong configuration.By itself, the hood is too light, inherently unstable and difficult to use as is when it arrived due to weight of the heavy vinyl hose from my Jet dust collector.I made a frame for the hood for bench top use that dramatically improved the usefulness of this dust collection hood.The frame gives the hood some weight and stability on my bench and I can clamp it to my bench or wherever when needed.The setup works very well for my purposes and I collect about 70% of the dust with my 2hp Jet dust collector connected.Hard to go 5 stars considering the modifications required to meet my needs but for the price, it’s a lightweight and now well designed & functional + portable dust collection hood. I plan to add a handle to my Jerry-rigged dust hood concoction.Your experience and needs will inevitably vary and the hood might work perfect out of the box. Hope that helps!

all good in use on dust system ie: saw and lathe

This is a great dust chute. Sturdy with consistent and smooth surface. My intended use was to mount it inside of a mobile miter saw cart with built in hood. The problem for my use was its height and depth were too large to fit in my cabinet with shop vac and dust separator. Additionally, the 4" to 2.5" adapter to connect to shop vac adds additional height. My solution was to find a much smaller funnel with 2.5" connector. Again, no problem with the product. It's great for what it is but if you are planning on mounting inside a cabinet that is shared with a shop vacuum than it's probably too big and I don't think the 4" opening would add benefit since it would then connect straight to a reducer anyways.

I removed the grinding stones from a Delta 6" variable speed grinder and replaced it with mop sanders (120 and 220 grit). Instead of hooking and unhooking my dust collector hose and clamping it to a table I wanted hoods that would fit my needs, but not too big that it wouldn't fit under my hanging cabinets and still open the doors. These were perfect for my application.

This tablesaw used to create quite a cloud of sawdust until fitted with a dust collection system. I've become quite spoiled, sweeping only every 3 days, instead of 3 times a day.

I wanted to use this while building a miter saw stand with a dust hood. Project came out well, and dust easily finds this at the bottom of the dust hood.cons: I still have to clean all around the dust hood since it still accumulates around this. I cant complain though, this was super easy to mount.Id like to see a 2.5" version. I had to buy some 4" hose and a 4 to 2.5" reducer to connect my rigid shop vac to this. Non pro guys want dust collection too!pros: works well enough. not a bad price overall. I got this over more recommended units since this was squared off and has a nice lip on the side. I build a square around this and it easily fits into place. No issue with the side cutouts since thats covered by plywood base.