big gulp dust lathe hood

Works very well and has plenty of adjustment so you can position it where you need it.

Not for full sized lathes

The piece is well made and sturdy, but the cross piece that goes beneath the lathe bed should be longer so it doesn't pop out every time you loosen it to adjust it. I haven't tried it on my mini lathe yet, but on my full size Jet 1642 it does not come high enough to be effective, the spacer in the last section would have to be longer. I have to figure a way to use it beneath the lathe in order to get some use out of it, but haven't as yet.

Nice big sucker

I have had a Delta midi lathe for a long time (it is serial 000041 and predates the fine PSI midis). I have used the PSI mag hood on it for years, but decided to try the Big Gulp Ultimate. If I may fault PSI slightly, I had avoided the Big Gulp for a length of time as the catalog says it works for standard lathes or midis with extensions. I don't have an extension, but as I was doing bigger face work I gave it a shot. It works great, but needs a bit of adjusting for the midi. The installation instructions show the "arm" segments laid on top of each other, that makes the hood too high. Easy enough, just lay the arm segments under each other to lower the base of the hood. It can be a bit of a pain to shift from using tail stock support on a face turning to the hollowing process, but the few moments it takes to remove the Big Gulp fixtures from the lathe track in order to remove the tailstock, then replace the Gulp, are worth it. I will say that if you do only small radius work you might want to stick with the clear mag hood, the closeness and the flip down hood do a better job of collection if you have a single dust intake. I use a portable dust collector (currently the PSI DC1BXL-1M, and I'll do a review there when I need another award). The key to collecting dust on a lathe is that different cuts send the chips in different directions - I have a "Y" connection on my collector with blast gates on each. I got a bit off on a tangent, but as most of the products involved are PSI I guess it's OK. I have a 4" hose connected to the Big Gulp, and a magnetic (from Veritas) small hood on a 2 1/2 hose. Depending on the cut I am making I can pull entirely from the Big Gulp, or entirely from the smaller moveable hood in front of the lathe, or from both, by using the blast gates. This is a good product, it can be moved in any direction to leave room for hollowing work or side work. A particular advantage is the form of the "underbar" that holds to the bottom of the lathe ways - it is a bar so it can pass along past any restrictions then be aligned to grip the ways. Don't sweat the catalog description that it is for standard lathes or midis with extentions - it works on a midi without the extension - just needs a bit of good sense in installing it.

Big Gulp

This gives a lot of flexibility around the lathe that one on a stand does not have. I like it better.

E. L. Jones

works great - need a smaller one for smaller projects.

Big Gulp Dust Hood

A significant improvement over the smaller hood I had. Really sucks up the dust and keeps my work area cleaner. If it were clear plastic and allowed light to come thru, I would have given it 5 stars.

A Pretty Good Dust Hood

I have but one complaint about the Lathe Dust Hood. The user has to remove the hood from the lathe to remove the tailstock. If the extensions were longer, I could mount it to the left of the headstock and never have to remove it. Other than this, it does a great job and I use it all of the time.