Rotate dust collector motor
A.J. Hamler
I have a Jet DC-1100 dust collector, and love it. It's perfectly sized for my needs and gets the job done.
However, in my new shop I have a dedicated closet for the collector, but it can go in there in only one orientation. This puts the intake behind the collector and right up against the back wall of the closet. While I could make this work by cutting and running ductwork through the wall and then back into the shop, I don't want to do this for a number of reasons - not least of which is that doing it that way would add several feet of ducting to the overall duct run, which I'd like to avoid.
What would be absolutely ideal is if the intake went to the left instead of straight back. That way, all my ducting would go exactly the way I want it to go -- saving several feet on the run -- and as a bonus I'd be able to keep all the ducting (except the runs to the machines, of course) enclosed inside the closet.
It seems that simply rotating the motor/impeller 90 degrees to the left would do the trick. I think all I'd need to do would be to unbolt the motor/impeller housing from the base, rotate it 90 degrees, mark and drill new holes and bolt it back down. I might need a couple-inch-longer connection hose that goes from the impeller housing to the bag and canister, but that's an easy fix.
This all seems simple and straightforward, but is it really that easy or am I missing something? Thoughts?
A.J.
