Cyclone Dust Collection

[gordon stelter]

Why not tape a  furnace filter to the backside of a 
10$ 20" window fan, and stick it near your dust-sorce
?  Several of them, if need be ?
     Thump


--- Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> I recently purchased a 5 hp cyclone dust
> collector/separator for my woodworking shop. It has
> yet to be delivered. I would like to solicit input
> from any of you folks that have used/installed one
> of these units - or maybe even someone who has just
> put some thought into it.
> 
> My air-conditioned concrete-block shop is attached
> to the rear of my concrete-block 2-car garage. I
> have been thinking of installing the cyclone in the
> garage, piping through the shop and exhausting
> outside the rear of the shop with no filters. This
> has the advantage of keeping a lot of the noise out
> of my shop and no hassles with filters. The downside
> of such an installation is that the garage is very
> close to my neighbor's nice back porch with pool
> (the noise might be a problem) and all the air that
> is exhausted outside the shop has to be made up with
> outside air coming back into the shop (half the
> year, humid and hot) - if this thing actually moves
> anything close to 1,500 CFM, it will replace all the
> air in my shop every six minutes or so.
> 
> The alternatives are to install it inside the shop
> and exhaust through filters inside the shop (noisy,
> filter expense and hassle).
> 
> Does anyone have experience with these decisions?
> Thanks for any input.
> 
> Terry Farrell


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