tiredofspam nospam.nospam.com wrote in
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So how do you get the plywood weight out of the bag without
making a total mess. If you picked up some flexible plastic
sheets you could make a cylinder that held the bags sides
to the bucket and remove the plastic when ready to throw
out the bag.

Ken Moffett wrote:
Mods to the Dust Deputy bucket setup.

1. Rather than glue the cyclonic separator to the lid with
silicone sealer, per instructions, I made a foam gasket.
Easier to move to a new container in the future, if I need
to.

2. The rigid latching edges on the lid's rim make it very
hard to get the lid off to empty the bucket. I cut away
the latches on the outer lip. Since the latches also hold
the o-ring in place, I used spots of silicone sealer under
it to hold it in place.

3. With the lid latches removed the lid can just pops
off...and thats a good thing. I made three small clips out
of strips of aluminum. They hook over the lid's rim and
catch under one of the buckets annular ribs.

4. I wanted to make disposing of the saw dust easy, so I
used garbage bags to line the bucket. Since the vacuum
would suck the bag into the separator, I added a plywood
weight, with finger holes, to hold the bag down and open.

5. I can't believe how well that seperator setup works. I
use a ShopVac with the accourdian paper filter. It would
plug very quickly with fine saw dust. With the Dust
Deputy I was able to fill the bucket 2/3s full and had
only a miniscule amount of sawdusw in the ShopVac.

Ken




Pull the bag out of the bucket and set it on the floor.
Reach in the bag and lift the disk. Knock the dust off while
its still in the bag, and then take it out. Compared with
trying to clean off ShopVac filters, it's messy-factor is
zero.

I use one of those plastic sheets to hold open lawn/leaf
bags. I see one problem with using one in the bucket. Here,
in the winter, the air is very, very dry. Static electricity
is a powerful "adhesive" right now. Pulling a plastic sheet
out of a plastic bag is going to pull a lot of fine saw dust
out with it. I will try it though.

Because these things are top heavy with the hoses attached,
someone on rec.woodworking recommended puting a free-weight
disk in the bottom of the bucket. I'm goinng to try that
too.

Ken