1536 days ago
by MyOldGarage |
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Whew! Last night I put the finishing touches on the new filter project for the dust collector.
The biggest challenge was the bag and getting that all together. I emptied the old bag and contents into a huge 55 gallon contractor style (2mil thickness) garbage bag. When I went to put the system back together I just grabbed that bag and put it back together. There was a metal band around the old top filter, so I used that on the plastic bag and tightened it up. I anxiously flipped th...
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1537 days ago
by MyOldGarage |
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Ok—I’m not going to argue the virtues of the dust collection in modern psychosis treatment . . . but my therapy session is all about cutting up wood. Hmm . . . I’m on the Lumberjocks site so I guess I’m in the right place. :-)
My first order of business was making sure I was properly protected. I was cutting the wood outside to boot on a nice windy day . . . that helped. Gotta love 70 degree days!
(I’m smiling under that dust mask!)
The first ord...
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1539 days ago
by MyOldGarage |
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That’s a peek down the inside of the new Wynn Environmental filter - the 9E300BL one. I’m anxious to get some cutting done and get this puppy mounted on my Grizzly dust collector. Once I get it mounted and that, I’m going to move it over to a more permanent location and run one trunk of at least 6 inch pipe to the unit. The only problem with that is the PVC to “air pipe” sizing. It’s just frustrating to measure stuff and see the differences. I can...
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1549 days ago
by SteveMO |
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Ordered the Steel City 11/2hp 65200 dust collector today. Got a good deal at ToolKing. $100 rebate and free shipping. Final price $299. Now the wait for delivery. It’s like Christmas all over again. :)
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1550 days ago
by sIKE |
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I have been jointing/planning down a good bit of rough 5/4 cherry and…..
and
negleted to check my bag….what a mess, I filled up into the top bag, had to scoop a good bit into the trash can above, so I could get to the bag to dump it into the big trash can.
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1555 days ago
by MyOldGarage |
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Ok—after getting numerous comments yesterday (THANKS LJ! – You guys/gals are fantastic BTW!) I decided that a dedicated super sucker – AKA – dust collector was going to be what we needed. Over the weekend I had missed out on a Jet DC1100, and another one . . . I forget what brand it was. We figured we would end up with some deal on Craigslist and sure enough, there popped one up buried in a “wood tools for sale” ad.
The price was definitely right...
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1556 days ago
by MyOldGarage |
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This past weekend was a lot of fun. Peggy and I went to two woodworking shows and a wood working store. It’s a new affliction we have—with the new shop toys we are looking at what we “can’t live without”. Thankfully nothing else followed us home, but we did get pretty excited about dust collectors. When we were doing the Christmas gifts the sawdust being generated was being dragged into the house each time we’d come in from the garage. Peggy looked pret...
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1799 days ago
by Karson |
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GaryK posted a blog about trying to get his dust collector modified with a canister filter.
I was thinking about doing the same, and after his post I checked into the requirements.
This is my existing setup.
It is a Grizzly dust collector with a 2 HP motor. The metal ring in the middle measured 19” across.
I called Grizzly and they have an item called an additional cannister. Not sure if that means you can stack one on top of another or what. But I asked and they said that i...
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1849 days ago
by Mark Shymanski |
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I put up a terrific struggle but Jenn finally convinced me to get a dust collector ;-)
Actually I’ve been looking for a while now (thus the tag line) and we finally decided to pick one up. So we picked up a General 10105CFM1 1.5 hp 1100 cfm canister top single stage collector from Wooden Edge here in Brandon.
I bought my jointer and planer from them and am very happy with both of these tools so Wooden Edge was the place to go for this purchase. I’ve not powered it up yet ...
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1860 days ago
by GaryK |
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For some reason I have had a problem lately with the bags on my dust collector (DC) coming off during use.Needless to say it made quite a mess. It seemed that I couldn’t get the cloth belts that held the bagson any tighter. My first thought was to get a canister as a retrofit, but about 10 years ago the DC Ibought was a generic brand. A Reliant. So nothing I found would fit it.
Here’s my current system:
So I figured that I needed to look into a better system for attachin...
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