"C & E" wrote in message
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"Dan" wrote in message
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Anyone have any experience with this Harbor Freight dust collector:
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=45378 ?

TIA

Dan


I've been using mine, plumbed through 4" PVC pipe with not complaints for
the past 4 years. If plan to save money by using PVC or S&D (the later is
cheaper) you can count on a few headache with making connection to gates
and 4" hoses and their adapters. If you have more money than time buy DC
plumbing through a specialty supplier such as Penn State Industries (there
are others) and they will even plan the layout for you.

Thanks for the helpful reply. Do you use yours with the stock bag setup, or
with the canister filter conversion HF offers:
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=94278 ?
I have read the unit doesn't filter fine particles too well with the stock
bags. Have you noticed this? Some say the Grizzly G5556 bags will fit &
filter better, and that any bag lets a lot of fine dust through.

Here's an interesting link on another conversion on the machine to improve
filtering, for anyone interested:
http://www.msu.edu/user/olsonbr2/HFDC/HF-DC.htm

Thanks again

Dan