<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "> <DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><I><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></I></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">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!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">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.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://tinyurl.com/l6boh">http://tinyurl.com/l6boh</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://ptg.org/pipermail/files/attachments/20060928/d3770f8c/attachment-0004.jpe">http://ptg.org/pipermail/files/attachments/20060928/d3770f8c/attachment-0004.jpe</A></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">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!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://tinyurl.com/jgo8c">http://tinyurl.com/jgo8c</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://ptg.org/pipermail/files/attachments/20060928/d3770f8c/attachment-0005.jpe">http://ptg.org/pipermail/files/attachments/20060928/d3770f8c/attachment-0005.jpe</A></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">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!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://tinyurl.com/f2rs7">http://tinyurl.com/f2rs7</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://ptg.org/pipermail/files/attachments/20060928/d3770f8c/attachment-0006.jpe">http://ptg.org/pipermail/files/attachments/20060928/d3770f8c/attachment-0006.jpe</A></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">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.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://tinyurl.com/gs6k9">http://tinyurl.com/gs6k9</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://ptg.org/pipermail/files/attachments/20060928/d3770f8c/attachment-0007.jpe">http://ptg.org/pipermail/files/attachments/20060928/d3770f8c/attachment-0007.jpe</A></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">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.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> </BODY></HTML>