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Jack
http://jbstein.com

Jack Stein wrote in
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What amount of seperation do you get? This is a lot more simple than the
conic "cyclone" seperators. They seem to seperate almost everything out.

Smaug Ichorfang wrote:
Jack Stein wrote in

What amount of seperation do you get? This is a lot more simple than the
conic "cyclone" seperators. They seem to seperate almost everything out.

Only a small amount of fine dust makes it to the collector. This works
great but I really don't have all that much suction. I think guys with
these 100 horse motors sucking up everything like a tornado would need
more, but fortunately for me, I built my system before reading all the
stuff about dust collection. I knew the air would expand tremendously
when it went from a small hose into a large drum, and just that alone
would let all the heavy stuff drop out. I also knew that if you spin
stuff around in a circle, all the heavy stuff would collect around the
sides, so I put the collection hose in the middle of the top and put PVC
EL's inside the drum to get things spinning. This worked exactly as I
expected.

When I read about dust collection on the net, I figure my system would
not work, yet it does, even though it is super under powered with too
much pipe and too many twists and turns...

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Jack
http://jbstein.com

Jack Stein wrote:

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Might be a little more trouble to dump with all those hoses. I simply
ran two el's in the cover, otherwise similar to yours. It works fine.

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Gerald Ross
Cochran, GA

I considered atheism but there weren't
enough holidays.

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:52:25 -0500, Gerald Ross wrote:

Jack Stein wrote:

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Might be a little more trouble to dump with all those hoses. I simply
ran two el's in the cover, otherwise similar to yours. It works fine.

Dump??
You're supposed to empty them? damn..


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Gerald Ross wrote:
Jack Stein wrote:

Might be a little more trouble to dump with all those hoses. I simply
ran two el's in the cover, otherwise similar to yours. It works fine.

When I was younger, my wife worked at a place that had paper wrapped on
hard thick cardboard tubes, very similar to the stuff carpet comes
wrapped around but they were about 4" in diameter x 16" long. I used to
cut tapered disks out of scrap wood and plug one end. Then, I filled
the drum up with these tubes, plugged end down. They would fill up with
sawdust, and I'd pack them down a couple times, then I'd take them out
and plug the other end and burn them in my wood stove. Now you can go
out and buy saw dust logs at HD...

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Jack
http://jbstein.com