Woodworking: cleaning up sawdust

[thylantyr 10+ year member]

Check out the cyclone for a shop vac.

Pretty cool.

http://www.clearvuecyclones.com/Videos.html

Click to read more...

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

Those things are pretty cool, we used something like that to move grain on our farm for years. But, it's much larger and has to be ran with a tractors PTO.... Same principle though, still pretty damn cool....

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

That's pretty sweet I'm looking at upgrading to a vacuum system for the garage too //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

nice, I need one

 

[thylantyr 10+ year member]

That's pretty sweet I'm looking at upgrading to a vacuum system for the garage too //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

I made my own dust collector years ago, a big wooden box with casters with

an inlet pipe that you attach the dust collecting hose and another inlet for

the shop vac hose, with wooden seperator panel inside plus household

furnace filters. Cheap design but works well. There is very little particle in

the shop vac, all dust/particles are collected inside the box. The cylone is

just a better idea/design, very simple and effective. Saves you real estate

if you have a small garage. $165 for that cylcone piece minus bucket, shop

vac, and you probably need to make the interface hardware to the bucket?

The old school idea is the ordinary dust collector.

$179

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=45378

Seems like it got rave reviews in spite of being a 'cheap' clone as the other

brands cost $100 more. Problem is, only 30 micron filtering.

These folks make the uber filter for the bigger dust collectors. I don't know if

they offer one for the $179 system and if they did, the filter price ain't cheap.

http://www.wynnenv.com/cartridge_filters.htm

 

[BassAce 10+ year member]

Small question, someone pointed out to me that if you mix your woodglue and sawdust together it would create a stronger bond when glue your box together as compared to using woodglue alone, is this true?

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

I made my own dust collector years ago, a big wooden box with casters withan inlet pipe that you attach the dust collecting hose and another inlet for

the shop vac hose, with wooden seperator panel inside plus household

furnace filters. Cheap design but works well. There is very little particle in

the shop vac, all dust/particles are collected inside the box. The cylone is

just a better idea/design, very simple and effective. Saves you real estate

if you have a small garage. $165 for that cylcone piece minus bucket, shop

vac, and you probably need to make the interface hardware to the bucket?

The old school idea is the ordinary dust collector.

$179

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=45378

Seems like it got rave reviews in spite of being a 'cheap' clone as the other

brands cost $100 more. Problem is, only 30 micron filtering.

These folks make the uber filter for the bigger dust collectors. I don't know if

they offer one for the $179 system and if they did, the filter price ain't cheap.

http://www.wynnenv.com/cartridge_filters.htm

I have that unit from harbor freight currently. It does work quite well. It's dieing of old age, and needs to be replaced. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

Small question, someone pointed out to me that if you mix your woodglue and sawdust together it would create a stronger bond when glue your box together as compared to using woodglue alone, is this true?

Nope, it will fill imperfections nicely though. Clean ( straight ) edges and wood glue FTW //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif