Have you considered putting the vacuum outside? Dave
On 11/30/2015 11:31 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
