dust collection

Jems;

Try the Oneida Dust Deputy. It works very well with a shop vac. Do a LJ search for “Dust Deputy” and you will find a lot of reviews and information. Todd Clippinger did a review a couple of weeks ago.

http://lumberjocks.com/reviews/1264

-- Rick Gustafson - Lost Creek Ranch - Colorado County, Texas

I used a homemade cyclone for a little, my design was poor but it worked ok. If you don’t want to step up to a larger system yet they I would recommend the dust deputy, they work very well and allow you to have a HEPA filter in your vacuum for the few bits of extra fine dust that gets through. My shopvac system was unable to keep up with the dust from the table saw but it was better then nothing. I used flex hose and it would cause my cyclone to tip a lot so overall I found the whole system just to be a big hassle. Now I upgraded to a HF “2hp” dust collector which should be an improvement on the shopvac based system.

-- Drew, Delaware

Jems;

Drew has a good point. You can buy the HF Dust Collector for $139 with a coupon found in March Wood Magazine. We have one and it really works well also. We put a 30 trash can, with the Woodcraft seperator lid in front of the HF DC and little actually gets to the collector bag on the HF DC.

Good Luck!

-- Rick Gustafson - Lost Creek Ranch - Colorado County, Texas

Jems;

Here is my HF Dust Collector with the trash can pre-seperator on shop built mobile base.

-- Rick Gustafson - Lost Creek Ranch - Colorado County, Texas

Search wood mag they had designs for a homemade cyclone with sources for the motor

-- GO DAWGS!