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I can't help you with a quieter vac. I have a dust collector hooked up to my saw. Dust collectors are a lot quieter than shop vacs but can still be noisy. So I wear wireless headfones when I'm scrolling. Usually listening to music or TV if there is a football game or NASCAR race on.

Scroll saws are not too noisy by themselves, but anytime you use most woodworking tools including shop vacs and dust collectors you need to wear hearing protection.

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So, I truly love the dust collection on the Excalibur.  And I love how quiet the Excalibur is.  But my hubby got me a bucket vacuum and that thing is so loud that I will be deaf before the year is out. 

 

Do you have any suggestions for the most quiet and efficient vacuum? 

My friend with a nail salon told me the vacumn at the nail stations were anoing .So i told him to make a box around the vacumn with baffles to deaden the sound just like a car muffler.He tryed it and loves it

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For scrolling, most any household canister vacuum or shop vac will work OK, but you will need to clean or change the filter bag often. Get a Dust Deputy and connect it inline with a 5 gallon bucket under it to collect the saw dust. It will catch 99%+ of all of your scrolling saw dust, and the vacuum filter will stay clean. You won't loose suction any more either. When running one scroll saw 5 days per week it will take you 2-3 months before the 5 gallon bucket will need to be dumped. For better dust filtering, connect a hose to the outlet of the vacuum and run it out through a window, or pipe it through the wall to the outdoors. Then nothing, not even the micro fine saw dust will ever get back into your shop air.

 

I installed a re-purposed and rebuilt household central vacuum in my shop for collecting sanding saw dust, scroll saw dust, drill press dust, and for vacuuming the shop floor with a Dust Deputy connected in the line ahead of it. It's so quiet that I have to turn off the radio and machines in the shop to hear it running. The suction is so great that I've had to stack three buckets together to keep them from imploding. I can go about 3 months before I need to dump the 5 gal bucket, and I work in my shop 3-4 days per week, mostly using my scroll saws and vacuuming the floor with it. There is never anything visible in the central vacuum filter or canister. It's always all in the 5 gallon bucket. The vacuum and Dust Deputy is installed in the attic of my shop and PVC vacuum pipes were run in my shop walls with inlets in the shop, attic, and one in the outside wall of the shop near where I park, so I can take the hose outside and clean the cars and my truck with it. Inside the shop I installed large hooks across the ceiling, so that I can route the hose to wherever it's needed without it running across the floor.

 

On the scroll saws, I put the end of the hose near the lower blade arm and tie it in place with a tie wrap. It collects all of the saw dust from below the table, but isn't very effective for collecting the saw dust from above the table. I haven't come up with a way to do this yet, but I'm working on it. Attached is a photo of my DeWalt 788 showing the present vacuum hose location on the saw. It's end is just tie wrapped to the stationary blade guard. The suction pulls all of the saw dust sideways from the blade into the end of the hose.

 

Charley

 

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i have this one and it does the trick and its pretty quiet. I also have it hooked to a metal garbage can as a separator .

 

http://www.rockler.com/rockler-dust-right-wall-mount-dust-collector-with-expandable-hose.

 

 

http://www.rockler.com/dust-right-4-dust-separator-components

I quoted and separated the two links - hope it works now.     I have now ordered the FEIN shopvac, hope they are honest about the DB

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i cant emphasize what charleyL said about cleaning the filter enough.

ignorant me, many years ago, burnt out a brand new shop vac real quick sanding drywall because i didnt clean the filter enough.

 

i personally an going to be building a downdraft table for my scrollsaw once the blower comes around.

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My recommendation for a vacuum

 

- Has a HEPA vacuum filter - I think this is important to catch fine dust and not re-circulate it in the shop.

 

- Rated for continuous use

 

- Quiet

 

I use one that has all of these features plus turns on when I start my scroll saw and you can vary the vacuum strength. I think the Fein will do this and a Festool. Unfortunately, both of these are pretty pricey.

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