I thought some of the wood working channels were getting to be so complicated with so many expensive tools and such a steep learning curve, and then I find this channel with the home built dust cyclone, after seeing a few others that are not nearly this nice, and it's overwhelming. I feel like giving up and never watching RUclips again because I feel like a failure watching you build this level of artwork. haha! I was getting hopeful, until you casually said you "3D Printed" a piece. I don't even know how to run a CNC machine or a 3D printer. When watching RUclips, it feels like everyone knows how to 3D print parts now, or use a CNC machine, like it's just normal practice. Anyway, what an amazing piece of machinery you've made, and it's inspirational, although it's going to take me a month to process the amount of skills and coordination you need to build something to that level of precision.
I came to the comments to say basically the same thing. It was an amazing build, but I think most amateur woodworkers leave thinking "something else I can't make". I watch a couple of channels that say "if you don't have one, here's what you can do". Anyway, great build. Very impressive.
Trust me 3d printing seems daunting and it is if you really want to like perfectly design out stuff but something like he made for that motor mount takes like 10 minutes. It's just getting good measure measurements and forming them to what you need.
Hi Justin! Have watched - already out of curiosity - your suction development videos from 6 years ago, 3 years ago and now this video here from 2 years ago and I am thrilled how you have always experimented and improved! Reason my search for "How to build the most effective cyclone separator that allows little to no particulate matter to reach the filter of the suction engine" landed me with you. Apart from the fact that your models are almost too good for everyday workshop use and are almost something "for the showcase", I was incredibly fascinated by how planned and meticulous you go to work. Respect, so clean and detailed works some other RUclipsr not. And then even what you have developed, works amazingly well, looks in addition very professional and - I think - does in addition still long his service later! I'm sure you can see my enthusiasm. I really like what I've seen of your work so far and I've been able to take away one or two things for my projects. Goal achieved! Thanks for that, now you finally have a new fan and I'm curious what you in the future still "invent" and "improve"! That just had to come out now ... Best regards from Germany, Micha
Awesome builld. You have a very approachable, Mr. Roger's, type delivery. I have the same dust collector as you and the biggest improvement I made for it was turning it into a 2 stage system with nothing more than some plywood and a metal garbage can. Luckily I can vent my fine dust outside. Made the already great, for the price, Harbor Freight dust collector even better. Great video and build. Keep it up
Awesome to see your shop coming together, Justin, it's all very inspiring to say the least. You should be very proud of what you've made as well as what you contribute to many other aspiring wood workers out there watching. Keep up the stellar work, dude!
It's a blower if you look into its outlet, and a sucker if you look from the other end. Nice construction Justin. Some quite ingenious methods I saw you creating to make it. Well thought through.
Great craftsmanship. Wish I could build things as well as you. I would recommend that the cyclone tapers as it goes down as this affects cleaning efficiency. It should be the smallest right before it drops into the collection container on bottom.
Hey hey! I’ve a few days of my own days where you’d think it would be right the second and third time I made the cuts. Hahahaha! Enjoy your work. Thanks! That’s a good dust collector design.
Excellent video and just what I was looking for! Your engineering skills are outstanding! Love your attention to detail, instructional skills and production values, too! Really glad I found your channel!
Glad to see you back in the shp doing shop things and making videos again Justin, Hope the time away was good for you ( and if there are a few vids I missed I"ll go find them) I do love this idea - as for impact on your main dust collector - if the pressure and flow out of the mini are more or less negated by the long tube up tot he main trunk line (combined with pushing the dust) then I would expect the impact on the main system to be negligible .. a little more air to pull through, but no loss in suction as it's not working any harder to pull in that air .. but there are SO many variables..looking forward to the testing!!
Are you his Wife? if so I don't think I'd spend so much time in the shop, unless you're always talking about some soap opera then I'd just have to get away. I know my wife can drive me nuts sometimes, but then so can I drive her nuts too. we need our alone time its healthy for a long relationship. 38 years not sick of her yet.
@@bobbg9041 Hi there! You'd be correct that I'm his wife. 🙂 And yes, I understand the meaning of giving people space (especially if we both work from home right now too!). Do I bother him when he's in his shop? Occasionally yes! I like to see what he's creating and working on next because I think it's awesome. Does he get annoyed with my shop-stop-bys? I don't think so. If he was annoyed, I hope he would communicate that to me. 🙂 so far, we're good
Very well done and very well thought out! Nice work ans it's quiet as well as nice looking. An over the blade collector is sometimes the last step, but a whole lot of dust gets thrown forward that isn't typically accounted for.
I am amazed every time I watch one of your videos. The ingenuity inspires me to look for other options when working on a project. Thank you for sharing your creations with us.
Looks great... I was recently given a central vacuum system which I hooked to my dust deputy. It works much better than a shop vac also much quieter. i have it plumbed thru my shop and even have two hoses 1 large hooked to the bottom on my table saw as well as a smaller hose to the over arm at top of saw and it runs both hoses just fine.
great design and excellent workmanship. my shopvav filter soon gets bunged up with fine refractory dust caused when I rounded off the sharp edges of my New cast panel afterburn wood stove .
I use the size 1 and 1/0 Mustad hooks to freeline for snook ruclips.net/user/postUgkxzXmlErSqVAEGWFEKO530BvTqFDw53QW3 and they have been fantastic. The points are super sharp, and the hook is small enough to blend with my baitfish, yet large enough to land fish 30" or more. I also use these hooks when I'm pier or surf fishing with my kids. They tend to catch tons of smaller snapper, whiting, and catfish, and we get far fewer gut hooks with these Mustad in-lines, which means more of them survive after release. I was actually using these hooks when I caught my friend too, but I think that had more to do with the bait I was using ;-)
Nice work! Love the repurposing of the shop vac. Been looking for a compact design like this for my garage. I'm guessing from the assembly method that your brother owns a screw factory though. lol
Beautiful work as always! Always enjoy your videos. Would be interesting to see more about how that shopvac motor was salvaged and re-purposed, what was involved, etc. I was surprised that it would push the much larger impeller, for example. Question: since the shopvac exhaust is being piped into the larger dust collector, why not just redirect everything, instead of having another separator and a very small reservoir?
I agree with your decision not to put the filter on. If built correctly, the amount of small particulates that escape the collection camber would be insignificant.
Looks good. Only thing i wouldn't do is hooking it up to your big dustcollector. That thing will overpower the motor and it will probably spin way to fast or do nothing at all.
that's really cool. so what's the purpose of this device for someone like you who already has the dust collection system in place? why don't you just suck it all up to the main dust collection system? does it improve the suction comparing to connecting it directly to the main duct? do you prefer to separate it, and keep opening it and throw away the small bucket?
Some cases, such as overarm collection at the table saw, requires faster moving air (Shop Vac) vs. large amounts of air (dust collector). This project just eliminates the bulky vac canister and replaces it with a small dust separator. And it’s absolutely brilliant. Fantastic idea and great execution. 👍🏼👍🏼
Interesting... but with your primary dust collector and distribution already in place, couldn't you remove the blower from this unit and just print an attachment transition for your primary dust collector to the top of your second stage (cyclone)?
Justin, your work is precise, thoughtful and engaging. I look forward to more of your content. Would you mind letting us know what your preferred 3D printer is?
Watching your videos it's very clear your skills have improved tremendously. Very cool build. I was thinking of doing something similar but having a mini dust collector for each tool hidden in their respective cabinets. Keep up the good work, my friend. BTW - is there anyone in your family with the last name "Sauer"? You look like my brother in laws doppelganger. I mean ... I showed my sis and him your videos and they actually freaked out because the likeness is so similar it's scary.
Very neat and attractive design! Interestingly, the fan’s shroud has much larger volume/diameter than those typically found in vacuum cleaners (i.e. high-velocity, low-volume extractors). I wonder how that might influence performance. thx.
Did you put in a inlet guide to the new blower housing to stop the air from short circuiting the air between the inlet hole and the output hole? If you look at the original blower housing it probably had that or used tight tolerances between the blower disk / wheel to stop that from happening.
Nice build overall, but there should be a fine pleated filter before the vac motor as those are designed with what is referred to as a bypass motor. The dirt is pulled into a filter bag or is filtered out before the air ends up in the motor. The closed face nature of a bypass vac motor will clog over time causing imbalances within the fan ultimately destroying the motor. If you were using, say, a Kirby, Sanitaire or older Royal metal upright vac motor as the blower in this build, it's designed to take larger debris through the fan (evident to the fact that the bag is the end of the system) and blows it into the filter [bag]. Your large dust collector is designed very much like that as the filter bags are the last thing at the end.
You do very nice work and your videos are of the best quality. Thanks for all the inspiration. I'd kill to have a shop as big as yours so I could incorporate some of your ideas.
@@JustinDepew Only in my heart. I really want to feel the feel though, but also feel overwhelmed with not knowing what to buy or do. Any pointers on how to get started 3D printing? You're stuff is dead on.
So one question, the impeller seemed tiny compared to the turbine housing you made. Is that ok? It seems to work really well, but in other designs I've seen, a large wooden impeller was used that was extremely large. I'm assuming the extremely high RPM's makes the tiny impeller work well? I'm just surprised that that housing is so much larger than the impeller.
That turned out fantastic! Looking forward to the next episode. Do you think it changes the power drawn with the vac being in the different housing? And with the main collector running as well? Might be interesting to look at those in your investigations.
I thought some of the wood working channels were getting to be so complicated with so many expensive tools and such a steep learning curve, and then I find this channel with the home built dust cyclone, after seeing a few others that are not nearly this nice, and it's overwhelming. I feel like giving up and never watching RUclips again because I feel like a failure watching you build this level of artwork. haha! I was getting hopeful, until you casually said you "3D Printed" a piece. I don't even know how to run a CNC machine or a 3D printer. When watching RUclips, it feels like everyone knows how to 3D print parts now, or use a CNC machine, like it's just normal practice. Anyway, what an amazing piece of machinery you've made, and it's inspirational, although it's going to take me a month to process the amount of skills and coordination you need to build something to that level of precision.
I came to the comments to say basically the same thing. It was an amazing build, but I think most amateur woodworkers leave thinking "something else I can't make". I watch a couple of channels that say "if you don't have one, here's what you can do". Anyway, great build. Very impressive.
Trust me 3d printing seems daunting and it is if you really want to like perfectly design out stuff but something like he made for that motor mount takes like 10 minutes. It's just getting good measure measurements and forming them to what you need.
Hi Justin!
Have watched - already out of curiosity - your suction development videos from 6 years ago, 3 years ago and now this video here from 2 years ago and I am thrilled how you have always experimented and improved!
Reason my search for "How to build the most effective cyclone separator that allows little to no particulate matter to reach the filter of the suction engine" landed me with you.
Apart from the fact that your models are almost too good for everyday workshop use and are almost something "for the showcase", I was incredibly fascinated by how planned and meticulous you go to work. Respect, so clean and detailed works some other RUclipsr not. And then even what you have developed, works amazingly well, looks in addition very professional and - I think - does in addition still long his service later!
I'm sure you can see my enthusiasm. I really like what I've seen of your work so far and I've been able to take away one or two things for my projects. Goal achieved!
Thanks for that, now you finally have a new fan and I'm curious what you in the future still "invent" and "improve"!
That just had to come out now ...
Best regards from Germany,
Micha
Thanks so much for your comment! I have plans to build more dust collectors in the future!
First American I have ever heard use the term "...bugger this all up...". I continue to learn something new every day.
Design, 10
Execution, 10
Reconfigure and Reuse, 10
Video Showmanship and Production, 10
Excellent!!!
Thanks Tom!
Nice build indeed. If the bag on your main DC is a standard 3 or 5 micron, the fine (dangerous) dust is still going right through it.
That’s why you say fuck you Mother Nature and blow big stuff medium stuff and fine stuff in the backyard tru hoseing and no filter
this is just beautiful, i love the precision and care throughout the entire build
Awesome builld. You have a very approachable, Mr. Roger's, type delivery. I have the same dust collector as you and the biggest improvement I made for it was turning it into a 2 stage system with nothing more than some plywood and a metal garbage can. Luckily I can vent my fine dust outside. Made the already great, for the price, Harbor Freight dust collector even better. Great video and build. Keep it up
I haven't done that much screwing since I was your age. Always enjoy your projects.
Awesome to see your shop coming together, Justin, it's all very inspiring to say the least. You should be very proud of what you've made as well as what you contribute to many other aspiring wood workers out there watching.
Keep up the stellar work, dude!
Thanks Peter!
It's a blower if you look into its outlet, and a sucker if you look from the other end. Nice construction Justin. Some quite ingenious methods I saw you creating to make it. Well thought through.
great work, we need this back in the USA
Justin, can't express myself how impressed I am with your work 👏👏👏
Very creative, smart idea using woodwork to build a air blower, simple and easy to do.
Thank you !!!
Well, I have to admit, that’s bloody impressive. A great blokey project.
Great craftsmanship. Wish I could build things as well as you. I would recommend that the cyclone tapers as it goes down as this affects cleaning efficiency. It should be the smallest right before it drops into the collection container on bottom.
Hey hey! I’ve a few days of my own days where you’d think it would be right the second and third time I made the cuts. Hahahaha! Enjoy your work. Thanks! That’s a good dust collector design.
Excellent video and just what I was looking for! Your engineering skills are outstanding! Love your attention to detail, instructional skills and production values, too! Really glad I found your channel!
Glad to see you back in the shp doing shop things and making videos again Justin, Hope the time away was good for you ( and if there are a few vids I missed I"ll go find them)
I do love this idea - as for impact on your main dust collector - if the pressure and flow out of the mini are more or less negated by the long tube up tot he main trunk line (combined with pushing the dust) then I would expect the impact on the main system to be negligible .. a little more air to pull through, but no loss in suction as it's not working any harder to pull in that air .. but there are SO many variables..looking forward to the testing!!
Wow! That ending was so satisfying!
Are you his Wife?
if so I don't think I'd spend so much time in the shop, unless you're always talking about some soap opera then I'd just have to get away.
I know my wife can drive me nuts sometimes, but then so can I drive her nuts too.
we need our alone time its healthy for a long relationship.
38 years not sick of her yet.
@@bobbg9041 Hi there! You'd be correct that I'm his wife. 🙂 And yes, I understand the meaning of giving people space (especially if we both work from home right now too!). Do I bother him when he's in his shop? Occasionally yes! I like to see what he's creating and working on next because I think it's awesome. Does he get annoyed with my shop-stop-bys? I don't think so. If he was annoyed, I hope he would communicate that to me. 🙂 so far, we're good
Superbement bien réalisé , la finition des assemblages est parfaite du travail de professionnel . BRAVO
1 Billion Screws later, he was done. Nice Work!
I’m always excited to see a new video from you in my feed
Thanks for always watching!
Hi Justin, I hope you are fine and healthy. I haven't seen work as excellent as yours in a long time. Greetings from Styria.
Looks a beauty. Great workmanship.
This thing is a piece of Art... Well done...
You definitely learned a lot from the first dust collector you made (like cutting the PVC curve inside the wood housing). Good job.
Great design and impressive execution Justin!
Thanks Robert!
The projectis ingenious and the video is exellent! Congratulations!
Very well done and very well thought out! Nice work ans it's quiet as well as nice looking. An over the blade collector is sometimes the last step, but a whole lot of dust gets thrown forward that isn't typically accounted for.
I am amazed every time I watch one of your videos. The ingenuity inspires me to look for other options when working on a project. Thank you for sharing your creations with us.
Awesome build. I'm looking forward to your testing of it in the next video.
Definitely one of the most impressive builds on RUclips.
This is a brilliant build, absolutely loved it
I'm proud of you man. You have came a long, long way in life and woodworking.
awesome man! i was thinking of doing the same thing, but was too afraid to take apart my shop vac. Thanks for the inspiration!
Very slick built 👌 pretty cool to see the cyclone effect thru the clear housing
This is a really great project, but I think the most important thing to note is that 17:45 sounds like a Charlie Brown teacher's meeting.
You are super talented, skilled, preciza and you have good sence for design !
One word : impressed !!!!!!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks!
great build, but the pure simplicity of the router circle jig is brilliant
Looks great... I was recently given a central vacuum system which I hooked to my dust deputy. It works much better than a shop vac also much quieter. i have it plumbed thru my shop and even have two hoses 1 large hooked to the bottom on my table saw as well as a smaller hose to the over arm at top of saw and it runs both hoses just fine.
And he did it all without a CNC. Miraculous! :D
But he did have a 3D printer. Must be nice.
My hat off to you. I kneel in my shop like that too, and my budz always poke some fun at it. Nice project.
You're an impressive young man. First class work and very good video work. Thank you for your efforts in sharing your work.
Very nicely planned out, and neatly executed work.
The detail on this one super!
Great videos mate! We need more content, hope all is well, eagerly awaiting your next video!
Thanks! Hopefully coming soon. Wrapping up a different project now and hope to get back to this one.
Well done! Excellent assembly
I'm going to bet you got straight A 's in shop class! If not then you get an A plus for this.
came for the wood work, stayed for the art!
Justin, muy organizado and clean, lo felicito. Congtas.
I enjoy your projects & videos. Keep them coming...
Impeccable work! Awesome job Justin!
great design and excellent workmanship. my shopvav filter soon gets bunged up with fine refractory dust caused when I rounded off the sharp edges of my New cast panel afterburn wood stove .
Impressive build and impressive skills.
Great design and build young man. Kudos!
very satisfying video to watch! Any issues with static buildup?
check out weld-on #3 and heat-forming polycarbonate -- would eliminate the need for many of the plywood parts.
good job bro, hello from Russia
Mate very impressed, very smart thinking and a lovely job
Awesome! Love the colors!
I use the size 1 and 1/0 Mustad hooks to freeline for snook ruclips.net/user/postUgkxzXmlErSqVAEGWFEKO530BvTqFDw53QW3 and they have been fantastic. The points are super sharp, and the hook is small enough to blend with my baitfish, yet large enough to land fish 30" or more. I also use these hooks when I'm pier or surf fishing with my kids. They tend to catch tons of smaller snapper, whiting, and catfish, and we get far fewer gut hooks with these Mustad in-lines, which means more of them survive after release. I was actually using these hooks when I caught my friend too, but I think that had more to do with the bait I was using ;-)
Nice work! Love the repurposing of the shop vac. Been looking for a compact design like this for my garage. I'm guessing from the assembly method that your brother owns a screw factory though. lol
Great project. I’ll build this for my shop. Thanks.
Impressive job ! Well done
Great job. I've my own too, works perfectly
Excellent design. Cheers!
Beautiful work as always! Always enjoy your videos. Would be interesting to see more about how that shopvac motor was salvaged and re-purposed, what was involved, etc. I was surprised that it would push the much larger impeller, for example.
Question: since the shopvac exhaust is being piped into the larger dust collector, why not just redirect everything, instead of having another separator and a very small reservoir?
I agree with your decision not to put the filter on. If built correctly, the amount of small particulates that escape the collection camber would be insignificant.
Looks good.
Only thing i wouldn't do is hooking it up to your big dustcollector. That thing will overpower the motor and it will probably spin way to fast or do nothing at all.
I like the way you are doing...best wishes !
So. Many. Screws. 🤣 But that paint job made it worth assembling twice. Very professional looking and obviously well made. 👍👍
that's really cool.
so what's the purpose of this device for someone like you who already has the dust collection system in place?
why don't you just suck it all up to the main dust collection system?
does it improve the suction comparing to connecting it directly to the main duct?
do you prefer to separate it, and keep opening it and throw away the small bucket?
Some cases, such as overarm collection at the table saw, requires faster moving air (Shop Vac) vs. large amounts of air (dust collector). This project just eliminates the bulky vac canister and replaces it with a small dust separator.
And it’s absolutely brilliant. Fantastic idea and great execution. 👍🏼👍🏼
Great project. Looks like you are well versed in designing things. I love your color choice.
Thanks for sharing. Felix
Interesting... but with your primary dust collector and distribution already in place, couldn't you remove the blower from this unit and just print an attachment transition for your primary dust collector to the top of your second stage (cyclone)?
awesome craftmanship!
Justin, your work is precise, thoughtful and engaging. I look forward to more of your content. Would you mind letting us know what your preferred 3D printer is?
Thanks Roy! I really like the Prusa i3 MK3 printer.
Watching your videos it's very clear your skills have improved tremendously. Very cool build. I was thinking of doing something similar but having a mini dust collector for each tool hidden in their respective cabinets. Keep up the good work, my friend. BTW - is there anyone in your family with the last name "Sauer"? You look like my brother in laws doppelganger. I mean ... I showed my sis and him your videos and they actually freaked out because the likeness is so similar it's scary.
Thanks for the comments. I don't know anyone with that name, but I've been told I have a few doppelgangers!
very nice. what kind of 3D printer do you use?
Very neat and attractive design! Interestingly, the fan’s shroud has much larger volume/diameter than those typically found in vacuum cleaners (i.e. high-velocity, low-volume extractors). I wonder how that might influence performance. thx.
Big thumbs up here in the uk. 👍
Did you put in a inlet guide to the new blower housing to stop the air from short circuiting the air between the inlet hole and the output hole? If you look at the original blower housing it probably had that or used tight tolerances between the blower disk / wheel to stop that from happening.
Nice build overall, but there should be a fine pleated filter before the vac motor as those are designed with what is referred to as a bypass motor. The dirt is pulled into a filter bag or is filtered out before the air ends up in the motor. The closed face nature of a bypass vac motor will clog over time causing imbalances within the fan ultimately destroying the motor. If you were using, say, a Kirby, Sanitaire or older Royal metal upright vac motor as the blower in this build, it's designed to take larger debris through the fan (evident to the fact that the bag is the end of the system) and blows it into the filter [bag]. Your large dust collector is designed very much like that as the filter bags are the last thing at the end.
You are brilliant, great project.
Gotta say genius!!
I think it's more screws than wood :P just kidding, I really like this design, thanks for uploading
Haha!
You are pretty close to accurate. I bet the project took $40-50 just in screws.
Very nice and compact
You do very nice work and your videos are of the best quality. Thanks for all the inspiration. I'd kill to have a shop as big as yours so I could incorporate some of your ideas.
Any chance you would share the STL for the motor mount? Very nice work!
Excellent chip pump!
Very well done
Your commitment to precision is inspiring. How good does it feel when you 3D print something, and it functions as it should?
So good! You must be a printer yourself :)
@@JustinDepew Only in my heart. I really want to feel the feel though, but also feel overwhelmed with not knowing what to buy or do. Any pointers on how to get started 3D printing? You're stuff is dead on.
I highly recommend Prusa printers. I have the i3MK3. I think their mini version would be a great place to start.
Great project. Looks great.
Thanks!
Well done, nice unit!
So one question, the impeller seemed tiny compared to the turbine housing you made. Is that ok? It seems to work really well, but in other designs I've seen, a large wooden impeller was used that was extremely large. I'm assuming the extremely high RPM's makes the tiny impeller work well? I'm just surprised that that housing is so much larger than the impeller.
Great job buddy
That turned out fantastic! Looking forward to the next episode. Do you think it changes the power drawn with the vac being in the different housing? And with the main collector running as well? Might be interesting to look at those in your investigations.
Hey Justin why not kept the switch
Good work! I'm surprised your cat didnt just lay down on it! lol
When is the next video? Anxious to see this in operation on the saw.
Hopefully soon. I've been busy with home renovations all winter.