Water cooled vs air cooled spindles

[Julien]

Some details here

Keeping Enclosure Cool

I had the same concern and recently installed a fan to extract air from the “shopvac/cyclone/bucket” compartment of my enclosure, it turned out to also be a solution to enable auto-start of my Festool vac. See this thread for details and a picture of the fan ($25 air extractor normally installed in kitchen/bathroom) I cut a hole the diameter of the fan near the top of the left side of the compartment, and cut another hole the same size on the right side near the ground, for air intake. I though…

I don’t have a picture of the inside of the lower compartment but it’s just 4 walls mounted around the legs of the bench my SO is resting on

The air flow is as follows:

• Air intake (a simple hole) in the upper right corner of the top part of the enclosure
• air is then sucked into the dust collection hose, makes its way through the cyclone separator and into the shopvac, which pushed it “out” (=inside the lower compartment at that point)
• the air extractor fan that is activated automatically when the shopvac is turned on, pulls the air out of the back of the lower compartment.

Sorry for deviating from the original thread topic.