[Files] Cyclone Shop Dust Control

[John M. Formsma]

Terry,
 
Looks great from here. Thanks for posting the pix.  
 
Way to go!
 
JF
 
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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Farrell
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 12:52 PM
To: files at ptg.org
Subject: [Files] Cyclone Shop Dust Control
 
 
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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