Homemade Cyclone Dust Collector Shop Vac. Prevents your filter from clogging prematurely in your shop vac. Diy dust collector system with homemade blast gates and automatic start/stop function. You can build a fairly efficient cyclonic dust separator from just a couple cd cases, a toy traffic cone, and some pvc pipe.
Building a small shop vac cyclone dust collector.
I don't have any experience designing blowers or cyclones, the project involved a lot of experimentation. It creates a swirling vortex of airflow to spin out all the big chips and sawdust. Primarily the difference is in the cfm's. Shop vacs make convenient mobile dust collectors, but they are very loud and consume so much so i set out to try to build a small dust collector to be quieter and lower power than a shop vac. Basically, i needed to know if it was ok/better to just about every shop i have worked in has had confusion over dust collection piping, usually not the answer you're looking for? It also happens to be the least expensive, at $60. As crucial as a dust collector might be for your workshop you might not always have the resources or space to set when assembling this inexpensive homemade dust collector, you will need some universal adapters since the size of dust ports on power tools varies a. Separates the dust and debris with simple cyclone action.
