Cyclone Dust Remover - Build your own Cyclone Dust Remover

Cyclone Dust Remover - Build your own Cyclone Dust Remover





Marco's Cyclone (aka The Nordic Sucker):
http://www.elisanet.fi/dncmrc/cyclone.htm

Note:

The Links that were give to Bill Pentz's OLD Website Cyclone Index (http://cnets.net/~eclectic/woodworking/cyclone/index.cfm) and Pages, are NOT working anymore !

Bill Pentz has a NEW Website !!:
http://www.billpentz.com/

And the Cyclone Index Page Link can now be found Here:
http://billpentz.com/woodworking/cyclone/index.cfm

Introduction:

I have always been bored about having my little shop permanently dusted from occasional use of power tools (usually sanding or sawing). In summer it is usually viable to move outdoors the table saw (!) but if it's raining or snowing it's just a mess.

It was autumn 2003 and my renovation project was complete. I was left with a wood dust collector that had been great to pump building dust outdoors but was a poor performer with its original filter bag (see Dust management for do-it-yourself building: http://www.elisanet.fi/dncmrc/dust.htm). It simply let all the fine dust through, namely the most dangerous one for my lungs.

After reading a lot on the Internet, especially Bill Pentz pages (which I kindly recommend: http://www.billpentz.com/) I understood that even a better (read pricey) bag wouldn't have helped. I decided to modify my basic dust collector by adding a cyclone at its intake and a cartridge filter at its exhaust. The cyclone would capture all solid particles and coarse dust, the impeller would pump only almost-clean air and the cartridge filter would retain the finest dust.

I don't have my shop in a two-car garage, with several woodworking tools scattered all around: my shop is only some 12 m2. Two meters of flexible suction hose were enough for me and I was confident that my 550 W dust collector was up to the task.

Cyclone links:

Bill Pentz Personal Web Pages - Home:
http://www.billpentz.com/

Bill Pentz Cyclone Index Page:
http://billpentz.com/woodworking/cyclone/index.cfm

Steve Cater's Cyclone Project:
http://billpentz.com/woodworking/Cyclone/Steve%20Cater%20Cyc...
http://web.ripnet.com/~scater/Cyclone.htm

Lambda

[Edited on 13-2-2010 by Lambda]

Quote: Originally posted by Lambda

Bill Pentz Personal Web Pages - Home: http://www.billpentz.com/

Quote: Originally posted by watson.fawkes

... The only thing to be careful of is that dust collection requires a minimum duct velocity (a linear measure) to keep particles suspended, whereas a fume hood seeks a target face velocity at the hood, which translates to a volumetric measure of air flow. That difference in goals aside, most of the other issues are in common.