[Files] Cyclone Shop Dust Control

[Farrell]

Below are four pictures of my cyclone shop dust control unit. It  
moves about 1,500 cubic feet per minute of air. I'm not completely  
done with the installation - actually, I only have my floor sweep and  
my portable access (where the drum sander is) working. Today was the  
first time I actually collected wood dust with it. Seems to work great!

The picture below shows the cyclone with the 5 hp Leeson motor and  
the two stacked paper-element 0.5 micron exhaust filters (this  
cyclone is supposed to be so efficient that the filters will stay  
clean for more than a year - we'll see - I hope so). The wood thing  
at the bottom is my home-made lid for a 20-gallon (or so) trash can  
where the dust/chips go. The green pipe on the right goes to the dust- 
making machines.

http://tinyurl.com/l6boh

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This is the cyclone in action. If you look close you can see a swirl  
of dust. I'm running a soundboard panel flitch through the drum  
sander and that's what happens - you can see a constant stream of  
dust swirling about and going down into the trash can. Way cool!

http://tinyurl.com/jgo8c

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Below you can see the cyclone unit and the 5-inch pipe leading to the  
small drum sander. I had to build a new dust collector for the drum  
sander so that I could run the 6-inch pipe directly to it. When I had  
my shop-vac collecting dust from the drum sander, it would get alot  
of it, but much would blow out and about and it always had tons of  
dust collect on/in the drum, etc. With this flippin' tornado of a  
cyclone, the inside of my drum sander looks like it's never even been  
used it is so clean!

http://tinyurl.com/f2rs7

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Below you can see the rest of my simply piping system. The pipe that  
goes along the ceiling to the far wall, then turns and goes down the  
wall to a wye - from there is goes strait down to a floor seep and  
angles off to the band saw. I haven't actually got the bandsaw hooked  
up yet - need to cut bit holes through metal, etc. The access vent  
that the drum sander is hooked up to will be used for most of my  
machines - like the planer (on the same portable table) and the  
router which is on another table.

http://tinyurl.com/gs6k9

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It would be ideal to plan a shop from the start where you could have  
stationary tools and piping going to each one. But I think that this  
portable arrangement will serve me well also.

Terry Farrell

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