"Jim" wrote in message
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If you are using the shop vac as a dust collector the cyclone collector
that goes on the 5 gallon bucket worked better for me than the big
trashcan kind. The larger one works better with my dust collector.

Unless the trash can gets very full, nothing but fine dust gets into the
dust collector bag.

I found the big seperator leaked a lot of air when I first got it. I put
seran wrap around the can and on the inside of the lid and then filled
the groove inside the lid with RTV silicone and tied everything together
to dry. The seran wrap doesn stick to the silicone so you get a perfect,
form fitting seal between the pieces. A trick I learned making RC
airplanes. I love it when hobbies overlap

"Dave" wrote in
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How well do those cyclone inducing covers for garbage cans work as a
dust and chip collector. Do they really do a good job of separating
out the larger chips and just sending the smaller ones (i.e. dust) to
the shop vac?

Now, I used one of those 55 gallon drums, and I don't get any air leak
whatsoever. I am using Lee Valley's Veritas Cyclone and it uses so much
suction, that if I TRY to go lower than 2 1/2" for a dust intake, it will
try to implode on itself. I don't get any dust whatsoever in my Rigid
ShopVac now, either.

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