I added a dust bag inside the shot vac and it’s clean. I made the same collector from Chris with much own modifications for the 2” shot vac hose- works great. Need to add something to keep from tipping over, bottom weights as Chris suggested
I'm a wine maker as well as a woodworker, and I just emptied two 5-gal juice pails. They seem thicker-walled than the Home Depot ones, so hopefully they don't implode with high suction. If they do, I'll guess I'll just have to get more pails of juice!
I went to home depot....looked at buckets.....decided to go to Craigs list looking for 20 gallon cardboard barrel...found a 55 gallon metal barrel with lid that was like brand new for $20... with pvc...I'm still under 30 bucks...I do a lot of flush trim router work and 5 gallon buckets would fill up in no time..tested and changed a few things from design in Chris's video....vacum hole center of lid pvc hangs few inches lower than dust input hose that I moved to side of barrel...seems to have better cyclone affect...,works fantastic catches 99.9% of the super fine MDF dust..
Maybe take the 3 inch leftover piece and stick it on the bottom bucket. I actually took the room I cut off and screwed it around the top bucket and it gave it support.
SuperSpecialty that would be a good call! I ended up putting the bottom into another bucket and I’m happy to report there are no longer any implosions :)
so, some dust still makes it all the way 2 the vac's filter, right? i made a collector 4 myself per Chris' design and have 2 use a bag in my vac, since dust makes it thru... granted, it *DOES* work and will help me save on vac bags but not 100%...
I added a dust bag inside the shot vac and it’s clean. I made the same collector from Chris with much own modifications for the 2” shot vac hose- works great. Need to add something to keep from tipping over, bottom weights as Chris suggested
Shop vac, sorry for typos
I'm a wine maker as well as a woodworker, and I just emptied two 5-gal juice pails. They seem thicker-walled than the Home Depot ones, so hopefully they don't implode with high suction. If they do, I'll guess I'll just have to get more pails of juice!
I went to home depot....looked at buckets.....decided to go to Craigs list looking for 20 gallon cardboard barrel...found a 55 gallon metal barrel with lid that was like brand new for $20... with pvc...I'm still under 30 bucks...I do a lot of flush trim router work and 5 gallon buckets would fill up in no time..tested and changed a few things from design in Chris's video....vacum hole center of lid pvc hangs few inches lower than dust input hose that I moved to side of barrel...seems to have better cyclone affect...,works fantastic catches 99.9% of the super fine MDF dust..
Sounds like a beast of a dust collector!
Fantastic job
Thanks, bro!
Maybe take the 3 inch leftover piece and stick it on the bottom bucket. I actually took the room I cut off and screwed it around the top bucket and it gave it support.
Ah - that would've been a good idea! I ended up getting another bucket from HD but that's good to know!
To keep from imploding just use a thicker wall bucket!
SuperSpecialty that would be a good call! I ended up putting the bottom into another bucket and I’m happy to report there are no longer any implosions :)
Nicholas Kwok nah, no need, I had thicker wall bucket!
so, some dust still makes it all the way 2 the vac's filter, right? i made a collector 4 myself per Chris' design and have 2 use a bag in my vac, since dust makes it thru... granted, it *DOES* work and will help me save on vac bags but not 100%...