W.Y.
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This is a copy of what I posted on my own site this afternoon regarding a cyclone dust collectors where some of us were building and discussing them across several threads.
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Got mine finished and put a coat of acrylic latex paint on it last night . Then a second coat this morning.
While that was drying this morning I cut up a 4 x 4 sheet of MDF that has been taking up space around here for about five years and made a rolling base for the shop vac and the cyclone..
Here is the cyclone by itself
Here is the under side showing the closed cell foam rubber I installed to make a good seal between the cyclone and the pail .
When I turn the vac on I see the suction pull the lid right down tight into that seal .
I was going to turn adapters to take up the difference in the hose connectors but I discovered that the thickness of the plastic in a ice cream pail was 'almost' the right thickness to fill the gap.
So I cut pieces to size and put CA glue on the under side and a few wraps of black tape on the top of it and the hoses fit just right .
For the input pipe on the right side at the top I shaped the plastic pipe on the spindle sander to fit flush on the inside of the hole that I cut out for it. That was epoxied in.
Then I turned the support piece on the lathe all in one piece of hard maple and shaped it in the same manner except for it being bigger and that was also epoxied to both the pipe and the body of the cyclone
Here it is all put together on the rolling base that I just finished off half an hour ago, My shop vac was so dusty that you could hardly read the name on it so I washed it inside and out to make it look like new again (for a while)
Then of course I had to try it out . The shop floor was quite dusty and there were also some shavings and chips around and under the lathe .. Oh man . . . . does that thing suck . . . literally .
It worked real good and here is what it picked up off the floor.
Then I took the top off the shop vac and the inside looked like the first day it was new.
So far I am very satisfied . Will be interesting to see how much if any is inside the vac after several months of use and after filling up quite a few 5 gallon pails
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Got mine finished and put a coat of acrylic latex paint on it last night . Then a second coat this morning.
While that was drying this morning I cut up a 4 x 4 sheet of MDF that has been taking up space around here for about five years and made a rolling base for the shop vac and the cyclone..
Here is the cyclone by itself
Here is the under side showing the closed cell foam rubber I installed to make a good seal between the cyclone and the pail .
When I turn the vac on I see the suction pull the lid right down tight into that seal .
I was going to turn adapters to take up the difference in the hose connectors but I discovered that the thickness of the plastic in a ice cream pail was 'almost' the right thickness to fill the gap.
So I cut pieces to size and put CA glue on the under side and a few wraps of black tape on the top of it and the hoses fit just right .
For the input pipe on the right side at the top I shaped the plastic pipe on the spindle sander to fit flush on the inside of the hole that I cut out for it. That was epoxied in.
Then I turned the support piece on the lathe all in one piece of hard maple and shaped it in the same manner except for it being bigger and that was also epoxied to both the pipe and the body of the cyclone
Here it is all put together on the rolling base that I just finished off half an hour ago, My shop vac was so dusty that you could hardly read the name on it so I washed it inside and out to make it look like new again (for a while)
Then of course I had to try it out . The shop floor was quite dusty and there were also some shavings and chips around and under the lathe .. Oh man . . . . does that thing suck . . . literally .
It worked real good and here is what it picked up off the floor.
Then I took the top off the shop vac and the inside looked like the first day it was new.
So far I am very satisfied . Will be interesting to see how much if any is inside the vac after several months of use and after filling up quite a few 5 gallon pails
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