I'd like to see your photos, Gene. I'll bet others would too. -- Ralph ________________________________________ From: Gene Heskett [ghesk...@wdtv.com] Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 8:31 AM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: [Emc-users] debris collection
Greetings all; Todays story from West (by God) Virginia. I have an Oneida Dust Deputy on the table saw, bolted to the side of a 16 gallon shop vac. It works very well, with filters in the shop-vac lasting a year or so because 99.9% of the dust goes into the 5 gallon bucket under the Deputy, with the main vac not even getting enough to cover the bottom in a long time. But its both ex$pen$ive, and bulky, always in the way. Way too big to try and move it to my new mill. So, since I already had a bucket-max, (Shop-Vac product) which is a vac motor mounted in a 5 gallon buckets lid, and had been using it for a sucker on an R.O. hand sander with limited success, limited by the life of a $15 to $30 filter. So I thought I'd see just how efficient a cylindrical cyclone might work. At Lowes, a section of 4" sewer pipe, a floor flange, a 4" to 2" adaptor, some 2 to 1.5 adaptors were bought. Sawed off about a foot of 4", clamped in on the mills table and milled the OD of a 1.5" white plastic pipe into it, about 4" from one end so that its outer wall matched the side of the 4", a tangent entry, glued the floor flange to it, screwed that to the middle of a bucket lid, then cut out the lid to the inner diameter of the flange. Then solvent glued a section of the 1.5" into the side of the 4", leaving enough length to reach the wall and a 1.5" riser pipe up to the level of the top of the machine where an elbow and short 1.5 nipple connected to a radiator hose for flexability, which jumpers to some more plastic pipe bolted to the side of the machine head. Suitable pieces get it to the vicinity of the tool. On top of the 4", the 4 to 2 adaptor was glued on and a 2 to 1.5 was bored out on the lathe so the 1.5" could be driven on in and its bottom end placed about 3" below the side pipes entry all for a tight friction fit. This was then connected to the bucket-max, machineing stuff on the lathe as required, with a couple elbows and a horizontal run so the buckets could sit side by side on the floor. Very little of it is glued so it can be popped apart for bucket dumping etc. And it all sits under the left end of the machines table and out of traffic. Its now been collecting at least 99% of the machining dust, and the buttons I'm making, plus the majority of the dust and finger cutouts from the last few box parts machined. The filter in the bucket-max is still pretty clean after 3 weeks use, with almost nothing in its bucket. The bucket under this contraption now has about 2.5" of debris in it. The floor around the mill is staying pretty clean too, so I'd have to say its a resounding success at "dust control". Biggest problem is the noise, I can't hear the phone when its running. The bucket-max needs an exhaust muffler. But it didn't cost me $200 to buy set it up so it starts and stops with the saw either. I could post a couple pix if anyone wants to copy it. Suggested muffler designs appreciated, it is noisy. Not setup ATM, I do have an interface rigged so that the M8-M9 commands can start/stop the vacuum. But that got removed when that big jig was removed after that part of the work for 3 of these was all done. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple OSs. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741911&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple OSs. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741911&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
