Dust collection

Re: Dust collection

gary clarke

>John, if you can see your way clear to get a 2hp cyclone and sell the jet you will get rid of most of your dust problems. I just put in a cyclone with overhead ducts and it works very well. ck out Bill Pentz web site, it has loads in info. Good luck.

Re: Dust collection

Wood Spinner

>John

I ran mine in the ceiling and used 3" black sewer pipe and fittings. My vac is set in a room , with insulation,close to my lathe so I have a direct line to one of the vac. openings. I use the other lines for dust but the one by the lathe I use to clean the floor of shavings. I do not use the bags I just vent outside. One of the second line ports is riged as dust controll at the lathe.

Doing this makes turning cleanup a lot easier.

Good turning and be safe

Bill in Casa Grande AZ.

Re: Dust collection

john Lucas

>Gary

A bigger dust collector as well as a bigger Air compressor and a seperate room to put them in are in the plans but probably a year or 2 away unless I win the lottery. I don't want to run a lot of ductwork only to find out it won't work. John

Re: Dust collection

john Lucas

>Thanks Bill. I will probably try a limited run to see how it works and then add other lines later. John

Re: Dust collection

gary clarke

>John, I have my cyclone in the same garage space(3 car garage with 2/3 shop) with over head 6inch ducts and I am so pleased with it. I made a collector for my lathe attached it with magnets and connected to cyclone with 6 in flex hose and it works great. also made a movable collector hood for my meiter saw and it sucks the saw dust like you wouldn't believe.

Re: Dust collection *LINK*

Fog Tanner

>John,

I have a 2hp Onedia cyclone and a 650 Jet bag unit. I use the Jet with a hose to where I am hand sanding only. On the cyclone system, I have run metal pipe to each machine, plus a floor sweep. All the pipe is run overhead. The cyclone has more than enough to pull the dust and shavings overhead. I have a dust hood similar to Raffins, and the dust is pulled into the box and on to the cyclone.

If you want to run overhead, or any runs for that matter, you need to match the pipe size as well as the length to your dust collector. You can find some online sites that will do the calculations for you. There are also some good books on dust collection that will help you in the calculations. Onedia did it for me, I sent them a layout of my machinery and they did all the pipe calculations and layout for me.

A good dust collector cannot be over stressed. I have posted here before about the sinus problems I developed in over 20 years of close hand sanding. Now I run my cyclone whenever I have run my lathe. I also don't need one of those worthless overhead units. You have to catch the dust at the source or as much as possible. The dust floating around the ceiling is not the stuff going into your lungs. You would be off putting that money towards an Airstream. If you really want/need one, there are a number of books on dust collection that show how to make one for a fraction of the store bought unit..

Oh well, I got on my soapbox again about saving your lungs - but problems caused by dust are no fun - trust me....

Fog


http://billpentz.com//woodworking/cyclone/index.cfm

Re: Dust collection

Fog Tanner

>That was supposed to be - you would be better off putting that money towards an Airstream...

I hate laptop keyboards, another plot designed to overthrow the 'merican people through confusion.

Re: Dust collection

john Lucas

>Thanks for the link. I bookmarked it and will look it over carefully.