Comments on: Cheap-Ass Tools: Cyclonic Dust Collector http://toolmonger.com/2008/05/07/cheap-ass-tools-cyclonic-dust-collector/ All tools. All the time. Your source for news, information, and reviews of hand tools, power tools, and tools of all kinds. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:08:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Lew http://toolmonger.com/2008/05/07/cheap-ass-tools-cyclonic-dust-collector/#comment-309884 Thu, 08 May 2008 23:59:40 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2008/05/07/cheap-ass-tools-cyclonic-dust-collector/#comment-309884 Thanks for the responses. It may be worth the purchase. Thanks for the responses. It may be worth the purchase.

]]> by: Joel Wires http://toolmonger.com/2008/05/07/cheap-ass-tools-cyclonic-dust-collector/#comment-308994 Thu, 08 May 2008 12:39:17 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2008/05/07/cheap-ass-tools-cyclonic-dust-collector/#comment-308994 Yeah it works. I didn't buy one of these, but I used a 5-gallon bucket, a couple of PVC pipe fittings, and a scrap of plywood and got the same basic thing and it worked great! I could dump out a 2 foot wide pile of saw dust, turn on my shopvac and all but about less than an handful would be in the separator (bucket). One thing to remember is to not bet too wild with the hose extensions because the longer the hose the less suction you start to get especially if you have the corrugated hoses. Two hoses like is show in the photo is just fine. Just don't go installing 30 or 50 foot of hose to make this your built-in dust collection system. Of course if you've got the Binford Super 9700 shopvac, go crazy. Yeah it works. I didn’t buy one of these, but I used a 5-gallon bucket, a couple of PVC pipe fittings, and a scrap of plywood and got the same basic thing and it worked great! I could dump out a 2 foot wide pile of saw dust, turn on my shopvac and all but about less than an handful would be in the separator (bucket).

One thing to remember is to not bet too wild with the hose extensions because the longer the hose the less suction you start to get especially if you have the corrugated hoses. Two hoses like is show in the photo is just fine. Just don’t go installing 30 or 50 foot of hose to make this your built-in dust collection system. Of course if you’ve got the Binford Super 9700 shopvac, go crazy.

]]> by: Benjamen Johnson http://toolmonger.com/2008/05/07/cheap-ass-tools-cyclonic-dust-collector/#comment-307798 Wed, 07 May 2008 20:29:30 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2008/05/07/cheap-ass-tools-cyclonic-dust-collector/#comment-307798 Lew, I built a chip trap for my shop-vac a while ago because I was having problems with plane shavings clogging where the hose attaches to the shop-vac. It worked pretty well. I see no reason why this wouldn't work better. Mine wasn't strictly a cyclone, I just had a plywood top with an inlet and an outlet, with the theory that the heavier stuff would just drop into the can and the lighter dust would be sucked out the second hose. First I tried using a plastic trash can but found that my shop-vac collapsed it like a crushed beer can. Then I tried a steel can, while that worked OK, but I always got the feeling that if I clogged the hose I'd crush that can too. I think a five-gallon bucket would be a lot sturdier then my contraption and actually having cyclone action might be an improvement. Lew, I built a chip trap for my shop-vac a while ago because I was having problems with plane shavings clogging where the hose attaches to the shop-vac. It worked pretty well. I see no reason why this wouldn’t work better.

Mine wasn’t strictly a cyclone, I just had a plywood top with an inlet and an outlet, with the theory that the heavier stuff would just drop into the can and the lighter dust would be sucked out the second hose. First I tried using a plastic trash can but found that my shop-vac collapsed it like a crushed beer can. Then I tried a steel can, while that worked OK, but I always got the feeling that if I clogged the hose I’d crush that can too.

I think a five-gallon bucket would be a lot sturdier then my contraption and actually having cyclone action might be an improvement.

]]> by: Brad Justinen http://toolmonger.com/2008/05/07/cheap-ass-tools-cyclonic-dust-collector/#comment-307697 Wed, 07 May 2008 19:05:35 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2008/05/07/cheap-ass-tools-cyclonic-dust-collector/#comment-307697 Nice find! Nice find!

]]> by: Lew http://toolmonger.com/2008/05/07/cheap-ass-tools-cyclonic-dust-collector/#comment-307679 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:48:39 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2008/05/07/cheap-ass-tools-cyclonic-dust-collector/#comment-307679 Does this really work? I see similar items in the catalogs, but am reluctant to buy one without a recommendation. Does this really work?

I see similar items in the catalogs, but am reluctant to buy one without a recommendation.

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