"Bob La Londe" wrote in message ...
On 11/24/2019 3:10 PM, Carl wrote:
"Bob La Londe" wrote in message ...
On 11/22/2019 6:53 PM, Clifford Heath wrote:
On 23/11/19 12:23 pm, wrote:
On Friday, November 22, 2019 at 4:31:40 PM UTC-5, Bob La Londe wrote:
On 11/21/2019 5:13 PM, wrote:
Anyway found that one can buy the cyclone bit on AliExpress or
Ebay
Mind posting a link. I recently unplugged the heavy duty hose on my
... Been thinking about making Thein seperator, but... well... time.
No problem. The one I bought was $ 18.01 from Magicalcarworldstore.
If anyone knows how to post a URL directly , please post it.
I always filter by "Orders" because often the lowest price is a store
that has not a single sale of this product, or has a visibly inferior
version that people don't choose, or some other reason to avoid them.
Always cut off the URL at the ? for AliExpress.
Here are a couple of links, slightly different products:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32942971357.html
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32833255347.html
Clifford Heath.
Found a few on Fleabay with "US STOCK" for a few dollars more and free
shipping. I went ahead and ordered two different ones to play with. If
I can use something like a 45 gallon Brute trash can or even a 55 gallon
barrel that would be great. If they don't work that well they still
didn't cost much.
You have probably already had a look on youtube but if not there are a
bunch of construction videos on how to put together a dust collector with
various shop vacs or bigger blowers, with homemade cyclones or the
commercial ones. If you want a small, portable unit you could adapt this
one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7KQ_p8IDAg, or the one he based his
on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyBuRjO54NM. They used 5 gallon
buckets to hold the dust/wood shavings, not 45 gallon, but I think they
are pretty clever and simple to build so you might get a useful idea or
two.
I had planned on building a thein separator for a barrel for a long time.
I even started once, but I'm just so darn busy in the shop these days I
never seem to get back to it. If the $20 (+/-) import cyclones can be
mounted on a barrel lid or improvised barrel lid and work for half a year
before the chips eat them up I'd be good with that.
Five gallon bucket. HA. One day on the Tormach or the Hurco doing even
moderately heavy material removal can fill a five gallon bucket. Sometimes
nearly two. I have had to stop mid day a few times just to clean out the
machines so the coolant will flow back to the tank. LOL.
It was always fun to see our head machinist climbing into a 60x30 Fadal with
a snow shovel and standing on the table so he could fill up a couple of 45
gallon garbage cans with white snow - the chips and strings of white acetal
from a recurring job we did that ran for a couple of days every few months.
I think you have discussed how small your shop is, so I was thinking you
could stack the shop vac and the cyclone collection barrel to save room,
just reverse the youtube example and put the barrel at the bottom, sitting
on a base with casters for mobility, then use legs from that base to a shelf
to hold the shop vac above the cyclone mounted on the barrel lid. Use 2"
PVC pipe for the legs, screw down four caps to the top of the base and the
bottom of the shelf as in the video so the legs stay attached to the bottom
of the shelf and pull out of the base for easy disassembly, then make a
pocket with walls or some pegs for the shop vac to sit down into on top of
the shelf so it lifts out easily but can't roll off. To empty lift off shop
vac then the shelf with legs, roll barrel to dumpster or recycling container
and empty. Anyway, just some ideas for you.
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Regards,
Carl Ijames