Shop Built Air Filter

Looks great! Let us know if it works as well as you hope it will.

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Old furnace squirrel cage blowers work great. You did a nice job.
I put mine into a larger cabinet with wheels so I can roll it around to different locations when needed.
Mostly I have it blowing across my wood stove so it also circulates heat in the shop. You know how cold and damp the Northwest can get in the winter (-:
I use a double layer of filters, a coarse outer filter and a finer inner filter.
The top of the cabinet is used for my sharpening center where my grinder and slow speed wet sharpener are mounted. Extra space in the cabinet under the blower section is used for storage. The blower has lasted 15 years but I have a spare if it ever goes out.

-- Les B, Oregon

I’m adding this to my favorites. I need this for my garage shop!

-- If I could just get this whole "Time/Money" problem figured out...

Very nice looking project : )
I wish I had thought of doing this before spending so much money on the store bought one.

-- When did quiet and quite become the same word ? I'm guessing about the same time as your and you're did.

Major envy here! The furnace blowers are hard to come by cheap.

-- HorizontalMike -- "Woodpeckers understand..."

What, sounds like an excuse to do wood working. Nice job, will put on my list

-- Norman

A great shop filter job.

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I’m so bummed i just replaced my furnace with a full functioning blower. I wish i had the foresight to have kept it. Well done!

I have one of those blowers that I saved from a furnace years ago. Thanks for posting this ,I really should get this made for my shop. I really like the retro fit filters, I just picked up some at Lowes that had been opened for 50 cents and they just happened to fit my furnace but they had several sizes for the same price. Nice work!

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You did a really nice build for your filter. What made you decide to use 3 filters for the intake side? I have several I built for my shop and I use just one filter…but wonder if more intake filters would be better if it wouldn’t restrict aid flow.

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I used a single filter on each side of my version but i like your stack idea. I have to blow my filters out with compresed air at least once a week. I used hepa one micron filters and I love the way it cleans.

-- Denis in Grande Prairie. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mistery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.....Pink !

Greg the “store bought” air filters have a pre-filter an then a better filter that is rated for .5 micron. I think the best thing would be to bite the bullet and get the $50 .5 micron filter for the home made systems. It would really clean the air. The pre-filter would remove a lot of the nasty stuff before the inside filter removed the really fine dust.
Kranky, your system is nicely done. good job

Thanks everyone for your comments.

Greg,
I have two filters on the intake and one on the exhaust side. I built it as the plan showed.

-- Better looking at it than for it....

I built the this about 10 years ago and it has worked great. You will enjoy it. I have mine mounted to the ceiling directly over my table saw. It helps in moving the air to heat up the shop.

-- "When we build, let us think we build forever." John Ruskin

Thanks OLDKRANKY i just moved into my new shop working on a router table now but the air system will be next thanks for the post and the kerfmaking jig i need it for the table now fan box looks good and Bearpaw had one for 10 years so im going with it. as soon as i get a good camera ill post my new shop

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