# OneFinity Journeyman and Dust Collection **URL:** \ **Category:** Machine Setups\ **Created:** [May 24, 2022, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/t/onefinity-journeyman-and-dust-collection/13254 "2022-05-24T16:23:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![IcarusFlyby](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.onefinitycnc.com/icarusflyby/32/8168_2.png) [@IcarusFlyby](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/u/IcarusFlyby)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/t/onefinity-journeyman-and-dust-collection/13254/1 "2022-05-24T16:23:58Z")
On May 9th, 2022, I pulled the plug and ordered an OneFinity Journeyman with a QCW Frame that will ship the week of July 10th. This is about dust collection. I have wanted a CNC for a while, and my overall estimate was $10k CA before buying any wood to play with. I may have to raise my estimate. My wife says I’m cute, which means either I’m cute or an idiot. I’m 70, have the cash, and mostly, I am an idiot. But that’s not why I pulled the lever. Although I don’t look like one (white mid-west American), I am a Canadian immigrant, a back-of-the-bus baby-boomer who built fibreglass commercial fishing vessels, worked for BC Packers, Vancouver shipyards and Finning Tractor, and then for CANFOR in GIS in Woss, as MIS for a manufacturing firm and a senior analyst for the City of Campbell River on Vancouver Island. Then in 2006, I had a prescription drug problem. So I became a ‘creative’ and began to journal, paint, take photos, make [Artboxes.ca](https://www.artboxes.ca/) and blog as [IcarusFlyby.ca.](https://www.icarusflyby.ca/) I have a 19x19 garage. I don’t have room for a 4x8 CNC platform, so I spent a lot of time figuring out how to hang a machine that would crush both of us simultaneously. Since that would not be cute, I went back to a platform. Everything is on wheels, two art benches, one bench for the mitre saw and planner, a table saw, a grinder, and a band saw without a permanent home, now joined by the mitre saw and planner. Being a creative person creates a lot of mess. It costs a lot of money, so I tend to reuse things, generally making them as big as whatever materials are at hand, and so over the last few weeks, I took all the benches apart and reassembled everything to free up space for the new CNC, which brings me back to dust collection. I have watched countless videos of people mounting dust collectors in weird proximity to various cyclone dust extractors. So I got rid of the bag, ordered a canister, and hung a [WEN air filter](https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00LPD9BDI/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?tag=benjmyers0f-20) above the dust collector hooked up to a [Lee Valley 4” cyclone lid](https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop/tools/workshop/dust-collection/parts-and-accessories/30282-veritas-cyclone-lids?item=05J3002), an extra-large [Rubbermaid Brute garbage container](https://www.homedepot.ca/product/rubbermaid-brute-166-5-l-44-gallon-trash-garbage-can-bin/1000405728), a box full of extra-large plastic bags and a 4” dust boot for the OneFinity (which may not work with the laser)(cute). I have a Milia Hepa filter, which will go somewhere close to the CNC workspace. On May 6th, 2022, I finished six weeks of radiation treatment and chemotherapy for lung cancer. I have a radiation burn on my neck that makes me look like I tried to hang myself and a 17% chance of living more than five years. That’s why I pulled the lever and ordered a CNC. Why Not? A once of prevention is worth a pound of cure. I smoked until I was in my 40s, and I’ve worked with asbestos, various solvents and dust clouds of more materials than I can count. Who knows if a dust collector, one of the last things I installed in my workshop, would have prevented my condition? The BC Cancer Centre in Victoria, British Columbia, is a factory. Most of us are older, but some are far too young. It doesn’t matter what causes cancer, it’s cancer, and it doesn’t care. IcarusFlyby@2022 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/onefinitycnc/original/2X/3/3b98f791fb870c913babae53b4df9dd39ff61b5a.jpeg) ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/onefinitycnc/original/2X/1/19125078ce14bf4eee8e54165ec35a4e66651973.jpeg) ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/onefinitycnc/original/2X/2/2d7e9d65c42ed67e05d0730f602715e70ee833e8.jpeg) ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/onefinitycnc/original/2X/0/00648df79e8e5ebc75df7e25adda81fdc1b78f33.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![AndyP](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.onefinitycnc.com/andyp/32/1106_2.png) [@AndyP](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/u/AndyP)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/t/onefinity-journeyman-and-dust-collection/13254/2 "2022-05-24T16:37:50Z")
That’s quite an update. Victoria, i studied there for 2+ years in the late 80s before heading back to the UK. A beautiful place, sea, mountains, rainforests and snow. And red double decker buses (at least when i was there). My thoughts: (1) A good vacuum and dust boot. If youre able, locate your vacuum in a place away from wherd you work. (2) play around with the cnc for a bit (3) get a spindle to reduce noise. Cheers ---
**Author:** ![IcarusFlyby](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.onefinitycnc.com/icarusflyby/32/8168_2.png) [@IcarusFlyby](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/u/IcarusFlyby)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/t/onefinity-journeyman-and-dust-collection/13254/3 "2022-05-24T17:51:08Z")
Hey Andy - I live in Campbell River, about 3 hours north of Victoria; what did you study? I’ve used the same (loud) Makita router for years, so I ordered a spindle simultaneously with the machine. The dust collector is 1 1/2 hp in the lower right last picture. Awaiting the canister. Still have double decker busses and horse drawn carts in Victoria! ---
**Author:** ![AndyP](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.onefinitycnc.com/andyp/32/1106_2.png) [@AndyP](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/u/AndyP)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/t/onefinity-journeyman-and-dust-collection/13254/4 "2022-05-24T18:57:41Z")
I’m a Chemist. But a long time since doing any. My downtown rental had a waterbed (fancy eh!). Made me sea sick when the wind beat on the house. I dont have a laser - but i do fancy one. So i cant comment on the mount. Enjoy creating. ---
**Author:** ![TheyCallMeJohn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.onefinitycnc.com/theycallmejohn/32/7657_2.png) [@TheyCallMeJohn](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/u/TheyCallMeJohn)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/t/onefinity-journeyman-and-dust-collection/13254/5 "2022-05-24T19:00:15Z")
Sounds like you are well on your way. If you are still interested in suspending @TDE has some videos on hanging it off the wall. @AndyP is right about playing around with the cnc a bit to get used to it and figure out how you want your setup to be. (Though hold off on the spindle for bit) You will likely need a hose boom. I would check out @RowdyRoman shop on Etsy. Sorry to hear about your condition, I lost my father a few years ago to lung cancer. He smoked for an unknown amount of time but also didn’t protect his lungs when working on projects. I miss him every day. 😢