darthintel
Member
Hello All!
I purchased a dust collection system from Rockler yesterday which are pictured below. I mounted the wall mount unit under my work bench, ran the tubing into a plastic container with a air tight lid ( not round ), ports directed at the walls of the container, and lastly ran the tubing to the hood mounted on the lathe.
I ran the system and turned an Acrylic blank - all chips and streamers ...everything was sucked up into the vac system - worked very well.
But...yes there's a BUT.....I looked into the plastic container that's supposed to catch the large chips and it was EMPTY! All the shavings went into the 5 micron dust bag. Why?
1. Could it be that I need a cylindrical chip barrel to create a vortex to drop the chips?
2. Maybe my plastic container is too small?
3. I directed the ports at the outside walls of the container, do they need to be rotated to create a vortex?
Any help would be appreciated!
Rick
I purchased a dust collection system from Rockler yesterday which are pictured below. I mounted the wall mount unit under my work bench, ran the tubing into a plastic container with a air tight lid ( not round ), ports directed at the walls of the container, and lastly ran the tubing to the hood mounted on the lathe.
I ran the system and turned an Acrylic blank - all chips and streamers ...everything was sucked up into the vac system - worked very well.
But...yes there's a BUT.....I looked into the plastic container that's supposed to catch the large chips and it was EMPTY! All the shavings went into the 5 micron dust bag. Why?
1. Could it be that I need a cylindrical chip barrel to create a vortex to drop the chips?
2. Maybe my plastic container is too small?
3. I directed the ports at the outside walls of the container, do they need to be rotated to create a vortex?
Any help would be appreciated!
Rick