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Martin H. Eastburn Martin H. Eastburn is offline
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Default Cyclone-style Dust Collectors.

One way is to use a 55 gallon drum. The lid has two portals. Inlet and
outlet. The outlet goes to the bag system. Between the two you bolt on
or weld - a fence that extends 4-5 times the diameter of the hose.
So the inlet is pulled in and dumps into the can. Lighter stuff continues
on the way to the filter.

Have two barrels and one lid - never run out of room.

Naturally a nice one outside on the edge of the building that can dump into
a truck or large bag in the truck would be nice and best.

Martin

Robatoy wrote:
The pleated-paper canister filter on my 2HP DC is just overwhelmed.
Better than the old bag. A bag is good for 1 hour.... I really need to
do something.
I figure that if I were to upgrade to a double canister 3-4 HP set-up,
all it would do would buy a little time between dumping.

So, I'm told that a cyclone is the way to go. What do we know about
those things?

r