Dust Deputy bucket question

Re: Dust Deputy bucket question

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

Barry, all cyclones - anything between the source of dust and the main sucker-of-dust - will reduce suction. It is all a compromise, however.

I have a friend who is a true expert on air cleaning, and he constantly makes this point, and advises that this creates a less efficient system. However, when I removed my Super Dust Deputy (the large version of the Dust Deputy before the duct collector), I found dust on the equipment. Returning to the SDD, matters improved. The cyclone was filtering the dust and giving the DC less work to do.

The same applies to the smaller cyclones. Consequently, you lose a little suction, but you gain efficiency in cleaning at the filter.

I use a Dust Commander on my Festool CT26e as it is antistatic (and the dust deputy is not).

The steel paint tin is also better at resisting collapsing, which plastic bins may do.

Regards from Perth

Derek

Re: Dust Deputy bucket question

Dick Coers

Collapsing bucket? Very little risk of that. My Lowes 5 gallon plastic bucket doesn’t even flex. With the vac hose completely blocked off, there is just a slight movement of the plastic bucket.

Why doesn't....

Barry Irby

someone make a shop vac that has the cyclone built right in and skip the bag and separate bucket?

If I lived back on the farm where I grew up I would rig my DC to just blow the crap out into the woods.

The Woods . . .

Yonak

Barry, I live in the woods and I would never consider exhausting my dust collector into the woods, for the sake of wildlife and because my wife and I, and our friends, appreciate the beauty of Nature. Fortunately, more people in my region of Georgia are learning not to treat our landscapes as garbage dumps, as had been pretty normal in the fairly recent past.

Re: The Woods . . .

Barry Irby

I understand. I live on a half acre and have fifty Japanese maples and twenty varieties of redbuds. And about a thousand daylilies. I would never blow crap out into my woods. What I do is carry the bags of sawdust up into the woods and carefully spread it around and mix it with my grass clippings. Sheet composting. I throw in a little high nitrogen fertilizer to encourage decay.

A 42" white oak fell out of the woods onto my rental house and did $22,000 in damage. I am getting even with that bastard by making furniture out of it. Might have been better to just drag it into the woods and let nature take it's course.

The lumber and resulting sawdust came from the woods. What would be wrong with returning it?

The solution to pollution is dilution. On the farm we had about 300 acres woods. I my lifetime of wood working I have not generated enough sawdust to damage them at all.

Re: The Woods . . .

Yonak

Barry, I like that you're getting even with your oak tree in that way. The ones that fall around here I have to cut up for firewood .. and there are plenty that fall, especially this year, for some reason.