How to "control" resin shavings while turning

[Mike]

Does anyone have experience with this cyclone dust separator? It's about 1/3 the price of the dust deputy.

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Mike

 

[NJturner]

FYI, the blue barrel in my photo is a 30 gallon.

Mine is from Oneida - it came in a promotion from them with the Dust Deputy pre-drilled for the unit. I didn't have the room for a larger barrel, although it would have helped with large turnings.

Blue plastic 55 gal barrels by me are basically free for the taking at all the marina's around me, as they buy food grade antifreeze for the winterizing of pleasure and fleet operations boats in them. Not sure about by you, but the same barrels are often available at motor home or campground service areas - as the antifreeze is pretty universally used for water systems in campers and motor homes wherever there is the potential for freezing. Might be a good source.

Kevin

 

[rixstix]

For me, the streams of shaving are so light that they regularly don't enter the DD vortex to fall into the chip barrel and instead just go from inlet directly to outlet & into the fan as a "mile long" shaving. Or, the shaving instead balls up on the blank being turned.

Remedies for either? Or both?

 

[NJturner]

For me, the streams of shaving are so light that they regularly don't enter the DD vortex to fall into the chip barrel and instead just go from inlet directly to outlet & into the fan as a "mile long" shaving. Or, the shaving instead balls up on the blank being turned.

Remedies for either? Or both?

I don't have that, as I don't get any resin stuff in the filter bucket. I am not an HVAC expert, but I might suggest looking at the air path - check all pathways to insure that your DC can 'breath' - meaning pipe diameter and length of air feed pipes are as short as possible and well sealed. Most DC's are tuned for 4-5" diameter pipes, with minimal bends and length to get real CFM numbers. If you don't have the proper pipe diameter into the DC, the velocity and volume of the air into the system is affected and if it's not close to optimal would reduce the effectiveness of the cyclone action of the Dust Deputy, since it doesn't have enough air to get it spinning up for true seperation.

Kevin