Thien Baffle Separator #2: Cutting Circles

looks like your well on your way Lance. Ive had plans for this collecting dust for about a year now, maybe ill get there one day. Good luck on the build.

-- "there aren’t many hand tools as awe-inspiring as the #8 jointer. I mean, it just reeks of cast iron heft and hubris" - Smitty

lookin good Lance. nice circle cutting jig also.

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I’m duplicating your project and having trouble bending plywood. How far did you cut into it? It looks like you just left the last ply intact. Are those spaces shown in the pictures just a single saw kerf or did you go wider than that? I duplicated what you did as best I could from looking at the pictures on some scrap, but when I try to bend the plywood I end up snapping it. Any tips you care to share?

Well, you can disregard my last comment. I tried again cutting as far as I could without going all the way through the plywood and managed to get it to bend. Next question – in another of your blogs, you have what looks like an AC fitting in the top of the separator where the hose from the impeller attaches. I bought a 6” piece, thinking that the hose is 6”, but apparently it’s not. I went back and looked for a 5” today, but that does not seem to exist at Lowes or HD. Just wondering where you sourced yours?

Vrtigo, I did the SAME thing, bought a 6” pipe and found out the hard way it’s only 5”. I went through http://www.pennstateind.com/. Hope this helps!

-- Lance, Hook'em HORNS! ""V""

Thanks for the info. Do you happen to know which specific part you ordered from PSI? I looked around their site under the dust collection categories but didn’t see anything that looks like what you have.

If you referring to the black Y connector and not the PSI one I posted prior to making my changes its came off the HF DC, I just ended up using that, B/C it was free and I ended up putting plastic blast gates on it. lighter and cheaper!

-- Lance, Hook'em HORNS! ""V""

Sorry, no. I am talking about the metal piece that connects the suction hose from the HF impeller to the housing you created. I am trying to find a piece that will fit inside the hose that comes with the HF DC so that I can connect it.

Ok, click on the link below, hope this is what your talking about.

http://www.pennstateind.com/store/N-SEC05.html

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