I should be talking G but could you provide a link to King?

I've looked at numerous cyclones including Bill Pentz's page, and for
the life of me I can't figure out whether there's a minimum size that
needs to be used to make them work, or maybe nobody wants to bother
building something a little more compact.

For instance, if the (heavy) wood chips are falling out the bottom of
the cyclone, why do you need a big galvanized can to catch them? Wy
couldn't you set up a wide flange and simply band-on a large
contractors bag?

Of course, if you read Bill's page, you almost come to the conclusion
that typical Jet, Delta, and other DC units are extremely inefficient
and don't actually do a good job. And that's the 1200 CFM units...
the smaller ones that pump 650 CFM are probably worthless by his
standards. But you have to take this all with a grain of salt,
because not everyone has a full-blown professional wood shop where 3-5
machines are generating dust/chips at the exact same time. I work by
myself one machine at a time, and I think I could get by with a 1 HP
DC unit backed up by a decent air filtration system like a Delta
50-875.

It seems like DC has become a big deal in home woodshops, and it's
probably the health issue that is driving it, although the SWMBO
factor where dust migrating out of the shop has to be playing into
this as well.



On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 00:13:00 -0500, Rob Mitchell
wrote:

wrote:
Looks like an interesting piece and for $139.00 shipped it might be
even more interesting. I wrote to the guy and asked him whether he's
going to offer it with a blower and he said no. Here's his response:

If you didn't have a DC already, King makes a 650CFM small blower/motor
and bag for about $250CDN I believe. Looks like it would mount right on
top of the cyclone.