Knowledge You Can Build On — Est. 1998
Three bushels of sawdust
bill Crommett in seneca
>---all over the floor and all over the shelves and the cobwebs and paint cans. Have any of you had trouble getting the collector bags to stay on your big sawdust collectors ? I keep my big Grizzly collector down in the paint locker where I don't go very often in the winter and this is the third time a bag has pulled off. I coated the rims with spray adheasive but they still go astray. Any suggestions ?
Re: Three bushels of sawdust
Doug Leite
>Yes, I have had that same problem, and I have 2 suggestions.
1) clean the bags more often, as their pores become clogged from the fine dust and the internal pressure increases to the point where the bags fly off.
2)I installed large hose type band clamps around the bags at the lip on the part that they connect to. I believe that I got mine from Grizzly.
Aloha,Doug
Yup...
Peter Teubel
>Ben there, done that. What I did was make a B-I-G band clamp from half a dozen worm-drive hose clamps. Just connect them in series until the length is enough to go arouns the bag. Then tighten up hard. Never had a problem since.
Re: Three bushels of sawdust
George Van in WI
>Doug, what do you do to clean the bag? I have tried to reverse the bag and knock the dust off but it seems to still have a lot of glaze on the bag presumably from resin in the dust.
Re: Three bushels of sawdust
Glenn Madsen
>Are you using a preseperator? The homemade cyclone lid on the trash barrel has substantially reduced the volume of material that gets to my biggish Delta...
Re: Three bushels of sawdust
bill Crommett in seneca
>Cleaning may help, but the second time it blew was just after I had run it through the washing machine . Go figure. I like the idea of the band clamp. Thanks !
Re: Three bushels of sawdust
Doug Leite
>George. I usually just beat on the outside of the bag both before and after emptying out. Before loosens everything to dump out, and after loosens what clings to the sides even after dumping. Shaking and washing the bag didn't stop it from coming off, hence the clamp. My DC sits in an upright box that is probably 3' X 4' X 8' high with a homemade cyclone before the fan and the bags after the fan. There are 2 furnace filters to let air out, but when that bag comes loose, I quickly get inches of dust everywhere. My chips/shavings dump through a small door on the outside wall to make cleaning easier.
Aloha, Doug
Re: Three bushels of sawdust
George Van in WI
>Thanks Doug,
I have never tried to wash the bag, I may give it a try, I do not think I have anything to loose. The bag on my Penn State hangs in the air next to the cyclone, I like the idea that your exhaust still flows through a set of filters. As the cyclone seperates better than 99% of the dust I am going to exhaust through a hole in the wall in warm months to reduce restriction and increase suction.
Re: Three bushels of sawdust
Walter Ahlgrim
>Be careful when you vent the dust collector outdoors, you could depressurize your house. This may pull air down the flue pipe for a gas water heater. Should the thermostat for the water heater call for heat while the dust collector is on and vented out doors with most of the window and doors closed a ball of fire may surround the water heater. Even if you don�t get the fire you likely to still get carbon monoxide in your house.
What I did
Garrett in Victoria
>The inside of the double garage looked like a blizzard had hit it. That was the day I decided to build a Bill Pentz cyclone, and I've never looked back since.
However, I've also stopped trying to collect turning shavings. (I do collect sanding dust.) A pail with a garbage bag in it and a broom and BIG dustpan are so much easier and more effective, A couple of my friends also use clear plastic shower curtains to contain the shavings in a small area.
Cheers, Garrett
