I made a cyclone separator based on this design and it works great. Vacuumed my entire shop and filled the bottom bucket twice. The vacuum canister is empty. I'm getting at least 99% efficiency. Thanks for taking the time to document your work.
Brilliant!!! Have seen many videos on home built cyclone systems, and your has been the simplest by far and actually one I will attempt myself. Thanks for all you do Matthias!!!
Thank you so much, I'm about to set up my shop again and wanted to build my own cyclone, but didn't know which method to use. I really like your idea and look forward to trying it. Great work as always!
Great tip using the threaded adapter. Picked one up to connect to my Rigid vacuum and is a perfect fit with the threads filed off. You have so many great builds on your channel. Subscription added!
Your cyclone looks very similar to the one I built a few months back. But I never was able to figure out how efficient it was. Thank you for sharing both your build and your demonstration of proving it. By the way very nice job.
i do like this guy everything he does makes sense and he has very interesting approach to doing things right way. dude i do salute you. I am professional carpenter your videos makes everyone better thank you 4 doing this. Andrius
I couldn't believe it was so simple to separate the dust and save the vacuum cleaner from being full. I made this with a simple 12 liter bucket with the same concept , and it works amazingly well. For my small shop it was a big improvement, i almost never have to change my dust bag and i don't lose suction. Super invention.
Why didn't I see this video 6 months ago before I purchased my grizzly dust collector!! Another great idea Matthias!! I'll definitely build one for my chop saw stand!!!
Very cool following your conceptual plans as you add the crafted components. This would be a great project if I had all the tools already. Thank you for posting.
That is quite impressive, it's pretty cool seeing how you learned from your previous projects to come up with a design that efficient. Cant wait to see it do 99.9% XD
Are you kidding me with all this stuff you're making? If the dust collector wasn't impressive enough - I see you made a homemade scrollsaw and belt sander?! Very impressed with your ingenuity...
Thank you for posting Jim Ryan's 'square cyclone' on your blog. I have an older 1 HP canister vacuum I'd like to use in the garage, but I'd really need a separator for it. I also own a cat, so the square buckets are easy to come by. :)
thank you for all your interesting videos, this one really is amazing. just goes to show you that in this world of believing that you have to buy things to get the best, that there are still alternatives. I will be building this. thanks again for all your time.
My gosh are you exact in every thing you do. I love it. You must be an engineer by trade. Love all your tools. I bet you could design any product. Thanks for the video.
Hi Matthias, a super econo accessory! I get a LOT more mileage between cleanings for my pleated filter- using my boy's grown out sweat pants- pull a length of leg over filter, tie off the cuff, 2 screws to housing. Easy brush off to clean "prefilter". Bill
very nice job Mathias. you have just given me another project :) I dont have a bandsaw but will figure out an alternative. Keep the videos coming:) THanks again.
Mathias I was inspired by your video and I have started making my own collector. I am using a large 5 gallon plastic water bottle for the upper chamber and a 5 gallon bucket for the lower. still fine tuning but seems to be working really well.
This doesn't have anything to do with the video, but i just wanted to say thank's for sharing your intelligence. I am capable of building more and better thing's from watching your videos.
I had to laugh whey you said "that's a satisfying fit". How many times I wish I could have said that with one of my projects. Well done. I damn love it.
Another one of your innovative designs ! Thank you for sharing ! I used the Dust Deputy but went one step further and made a bracket on top of my vacuum so I could mount the two buckets above, thus reducing my overall footprint. I also mounted my vacuum on a round platform with added wheels for greater mobility and stability ! I would post pictures but I don't see any way to do that here ! You must have made this before you took on the idea of buying something already made vrs. the time it takes to make your own, as it seems this took quite a long time !
Like your cyclone, I, ve just completed mark one of my cyclone. I used a shop bought cyclone and adapted a wet vac to fit in a bucket, below that I have the cyclone also mounted in a bucket exhausting direct to the vacuume . The bottomof the cyclone dumps the shavings and dust into the third bucket. This makes it all quite tall, but I do not have much floor space, so it works for me. Biggest problemis the noise, sounds like a screaming jet engine! Mark two will be double skinned with expanding foam to act as sound absorber.
A few months ago, I used a bucket and plumbing parts to make a separator. The trouble with it, is a single bucket gets too much air flow and it can't hold much before the dust starts swirling up and back into the vacuum. I wondered if a 2-bucket stack would help, but now I know. Your results are much superior than mine.
This is a great simple design for a cyclone that anybody can build at home. I love it. I have one of those plastic cyclones that you can buy on Amazon...it works good, but I think I paid $50 for it. I don't think it works any better than this design though. I use mine to trap airborne dust from inside my blasting cabinet. Saves a ton of filter cleaning inside the vac.
LOVE IT. I learned some new tricks here. Maybe a couple of friendly suggestions: To reduce the bends in your piping, maybe raise your Vac up on a shelf, so your 2" pipe leaves straight out towards the cyclone lid, then drops down (so it's an "L" shape run vs all those 90 deg bends. Not sure, but this might help. Also, I've cut a viewing window in my bucket, hot glued some clear plexiglass over it, so I can know when to clean it out.
Technically you vacuumed the same sawdust twice so I hope when you calculated your lose of fine dust you divided it in half. I'll be building this collector with a slight modification. Ryan Nodwell from Shop Built uses a Shop Vac attachment for his intake. I really like the idea of using a baffle. 99% efficiency is incredible. Thanks for all your videos.
I built mine with a variation on the baffle theme. Rather than have a baffle that screws to the sides, I made a circular baffle, attached the the bottom of the pipe out the top to the shop vac. Vertical pipe had 1/2 it's side removed for the bottom 10cm (in 4 segments around the pipe) plus holes drilled further up to prevent a single strong vacuum effect at the base of the pipe. The baffle is around 2-3cm in from the sides of the bucket (increased the gap when I discovered waste from the lathe was clogging it) and I check the vac every 4th time I empty the full 15 litre bucket, and there is usually no dust to speak of.
I like the idea of making the baffle from a bucket. Others are using thin Plexiglas and bending, marking, cutting to shape! This is a great time saving idea. The only thing ill do differently is mount to a 30 or 50 gallon drum. To much time spent emptying 5 gal buckets. Awesome job!
I dropped my store bought plastic cone shaped one and it burst. I've been meaning to repair it but now I see a better way. Thanks! I'm considerign adding a cyclone to the central house vac as well. Do you have a static suppression idea? Another feature of your approach of solid PVC pipe and stacked buckets is that it should be easier to secure to a rolling base to keep up with the shop vac. Extra thumbs up for not stretching the video out. This had content enough for 3 videos but you just pack in the good ideas one on top of the other and keep moving! You included the findings on the threaded coupling hack, the failure of melt welding and the narrow hose and even how to measure the efficiency all with minimal to do! Everybody else TAKE NOTE and do likewise.
I have a tip for the cyclone. Angle the inlet into the cyclone downward just enough so that the dust and air stream, when it makes its way all the way around, doesn't collide with the incoming stream. Angle it so that when it makes a circuit, it comes in under the inlet. The momentum of the dust won't be interrupted and will have a downward vector, and will be less turbulent without the collision, enabling the entrained dust to settle more efficiently.
Berkana well, juat looking at the cyclone when he sucks it back the second time, and you will see the dust inside the cyclone, not interfering with the incoming stream as it makes it first lap
great design for the DIY. I did something similar with a big orange street cone turned upside down. Gorilla glued on the intake port. Made the plywood plates etc. to seal the top. Place on top a metal trash can. But my Lowes shop vac would literally collapse the trash can and street cone if collection hose got blocked by hand or against a surface while vacuuming.
Mathias I like this idea I was thinking of incorporating a dust chip trap into each stationary tool in my new shop to save on the cleaning of the shop dust collector tubes and the main collector. I read in some of the comments that some persons are worried about static charge. If they run some bare copper wire across the top bucket on the inside (in the air flow) and pass it through the bucket to the outside with a bolt they can run a ground line to the tool or main power ground. Keep up the good work
Hi Mathias, if you don't want to have any dust in the vacuum cleaner bucket, put a water trap between the vacuum cleaner and the collector bucket, the fine dust will be trapped mixed with the water. Thanks for sharing.
Hahaha. Good one! Now if you were to use a 55gallon drum for the collection area you'd be on to something. It would take a long time to fill one of those.
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I made a cyclone separator based on this design and it works great. Vacuumed my entire shop and filled the bottom bucket twice. The vacuum canister is empty. I'm getting at least 99% efficiency. Thanks for taking the time to document your work.
Brilliant!!!
Have seen many videos on home built cyclone systems, and your has been the simplest by far and actually one I will attempt myself.
Thanks for all you do Matthias!!!
I have one that even more Simpler then this and it works really good
the way you use your tools creatively is really impressive.
Best functioning and least expensive dust collector I have seen and I've looked at a dozen or more on RUclips. Thanks again.
Love it! Much sturdier than my street cone one! These black pipes make it really professionally looking!
Your street cone one is cool; don't knock it.
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wow! you are definitely the rock star of woodwork and engineering, your channel is very enjoyable and informational. thanks. Paul.
This man is so beyond rest of us!
Thank you so much, I'm about to set up my shop again and wanted to build my own cyclone, but didn't know which method to use. I really like your idea and look forward to trying it. Great work as always!
I really admire this guy's consistency. It's incredible how many ideas he produces. Thanks !
Great tip using the threaded adapter. Picked one up to connect to my Rigid vacuum and is a perfect fit with the threads filed off. You have so many great builds on your channel. Subscription added!
Your cyclone looks very similar to the one I built a few months back. But I never was able to figure out how efficient it was. Thank you for sharing both your build and your demonstration of proving it. By the way very nice job.
Matthias, thanks for the great video, you've really opened my eyes to some fantastic ideas.
VERY interesting use of the table saw. Gave me some great techniques to use. Thank you!
Agreed. I learned some new tricks today. WOW!
i do like this guy everything he does makes sense and he has very interesting approach to doing things right way. dude i do salute you. I am professional carpenter your videos makes everyone better thank you 4 doing this. Andrius
I just made one today using this design, wow am I surprised how well it works. Thanks for the video, it is very much appreciated.
I couldn't believe it was so simple to separate the dust and save the vacuum cleaner from being full.
I made this with a simple 12 liter bucket with the same concept , and it works amazingly well. For my small shop it was a big improvement, i almost never have to change my dust bag and i don't lose suction.
Super invention.
Why didn't I see this video 6 months ago before I purchased my grizzly dust collector!! Another great idea Matthias!! I'll definitely build one for my chop saw stand!!!
Very cool following your conceptual plans as you add the crafted components. This would be a great project if I had all the tools already. Thank you for posting.
That is quite impressive, it's pretty cool seeing how you learned from your previous projects to come up with a design that efficient. Cant wait to see it do 99.9% XD
Well conceived, well executed, well performing: you’re the man! 👍
Its amazing how easy these can be to build. Awesome result!
Matthias, you are quite an inspiration! Thank you!!!
Love your stuff, Matthias! You're a very clever dude, and I always enjoy your videos!
Circle jig for table saw to cut a perfect, precise circle. BRILLIANT!
Matthias is amazing, very smart man. His homemade tools are amazing.
Great job. Cool table saw jig too for trimming that circle.
Are you kidding me with all this stuff you're making? If the dust collector wasn't impressive enough - I see you made a homemade scrollsaw and belt sander?! Very impressed with your ingenuity...
So happy your making vids again bro,please keep doing it.
Thank you for posting Jim Ryan's 'square cyclone' on your blog. I have an older 1 HP canister vacuum I'd like to use in the garage, but I'd really need a separator for it. I also own a cat, so the square buckets are easy to come by. :)
Good times....good times. Always look forward to your videos, Sir!
Thanks for sharing this.. This has to be the most straight forward design I've seen so far.
another cool project. I'm definitely getting one of those circle cutting drill bits.
thank you for all your interesting videos, this one really is amazing. just goes to show you that in this world of believing that you have to buy things to get the best, that there are still alternatives. I will be building this. thanks again for all your time.
Big fan of your work. This is a great video, as are all your broadcasts.
Brilliant use of tools and excellent, well planned project.
My gosh are you exact in every thing you do. I love it. You must be an engineer by trade. Love all your tools. I bet you could design any product. Thanks for the video.
Excellent project ! Thanks for sharing !
impressive woodworking video ever! thank you for your brilliant idea
what it's great on your video.. not just the good ideas but the great set of pro tools.
nice videos.
i have only seen 1 1/2 videos....and out of everything on the web you are the 1st i will follow! keep it up! you are great
You are so clever and skillful, thank you for sharing your concept
Hi Matthias, a super econo accessory! I get a LOT more mileage between cleanings for my pleated filter- using my boy's grown out sweat pants- pull a length of leg over filter, tie off the cuff, 2 screws to housing. Easy brush off to clean "prefilter". Bill
very nice job Mathias. you have just given me another project :) I dont have a bandsaw but will figure out an alternative. Keep the videos coming:) THanks again.
Congrats on 200k subscribers ! Love your videos !
Excellent dust cyclone solution!
Regards,
Bob
Over 99% is awesome performance! Thanks for sharing.
Brilliant! Haven't seen anything close it
Keep up the great work!
Mathias I was inspired by your video and I have started making my own collector. I am using a large 5 gallon plastic water bottle for the upper chamber and a 5 gallon bucket for the lower. still fine tuning but seems to be working really well.
This doesn't have anything to do with the video, but i just wanted to say thank's for sharing your intelligence. I am capable of building more and better thing's from watching your videos.
brilliant work! Thank you for sharing!
I think it worked great. That much fine dust would of cut vacuum in have. I guess you have convinced me to build one👍
Thanks for the vid Mathius!
I had to laugh whey you said "that's a satisfying fit". How many times I wish I could have said that with one of my projects. Well done. I damn love it.
Another one of your innovative designs ! Thank you for sharing ! I used the Dust Deputy but went one step further and made a bracket on top of my vacuum so I could mount the two buckets above, thus reducing my overall footprint. I also mounted my vacuum on a round platform with added wheels for greater mobility and stability ! I would post pictures but I don't see any way to do that here ! You must have made this before you took on the idea of buying something already made vrs. the time it takes to make your own, as it seems this took quite a long time !
Gotta say, I like the circle jig. first one I've seen for a table saw
What a great idea. Thanks for sharing.
Always great stuff Matt thanks
Very cool! Amazingly efficient!
Like your cyclone, I, ve just completed mark one of my cyclone. I used a shop bought cyclone and adapted a wet vac to fit in a bucket, below that I have the cyclone also mounted in a bucket exhausting direct to the vacuume . The bottomof the cyclone dumps the shavings and dust into the third bucket. This makes it all quite tall, but I do not have much floor space, so it works for me. Biggest problemis the noise, sounds like a screaming jet engine! Mark two will be double skinned with expanding foam to act as sound absorber.
Very impressive result Mathias
Great idea, and it works very well.
A few months ago, I used a bucket and plumbing parts to make a separator. The trouble with it, is a single bucket gets too much air flow and it can't hold much before the dust starts swirling up and back into the vacuum. I wondered if a 2-bucket stack would help, but now I know. Your results are much superior than mine.
This guy is amazing.
No tengo palabras para expresar lo que siento al ver tus vídeos. Dios te bendiga. EXCELENTE.
That's quite impressive!
This is a great simple design for a cyclone that anybody can build at home. I love it. I have one of those plastic cyclones that you can buy on Amazon...it works good, but I think I paid $50 for it. I don't think it works any better than this design though. I use mine to trap airborne dust from inside my blasting cabinet. Saves a ton of filter cleaning inside the vac.
You really amazing at using your tools. I wish I could do the same but maybe I'm not patient enough.
Great project..Thanks for the pointers..
I enjoy all you put on u tube so keep em coming Matt and well done.
Great idea! Who could dislike this?
superbly worked out as always , thanks
That is bloody marvellous..
I now have a future project.
LOVE IT. I learned some new tricks here. Maybe a couple of friendly suggestions: To reduce the bends in your piping, maybe raise your Vac up on a shelf, so your 2" pipe leaves straight out towards the cyclone lid, then drops down (so it's an "L" shape run vs all those 90 deg bends. Not sure, but this might help. Also, I've cut a viewing window in my bucket, hot glued some clear plexiglass over it, so I can know when to clean it out.
Dear Matias, I like your videos. Thanks so much...
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It's a wonderful cyclone ♪
Technically you vacuumed the same sawdust twice so I hope when you calculated your lose of fine dust you divided it in half. I'll be building this collector with a slight modification. Ryan Nodwell from Shop Built uses a Shop Vac attachment for his intake. I really like the idea of using a baffle. 99% efficiency is incredible. Thanks for all your videos.
I thought the same thing
Hi I really enjoy your videos because I am new with woodworking
I built mine with a variation on the baffle theme. Rather than have a baffle that screws to the sides, I made a circular baffle, attached the the bottom of the pipe out the top to the shop vac. Vertical pipe had 1/2 it's side removed for the bottom 10cm (in 4 segments around the pipe) plus holes drilled further up to prevent a single strong vacuum effect at the base of the pipe.
The baffle is around 2-3cm in from the sides of the bucket (increased the gap when I discovered waste from the lathe was clogging it) and I check the vac every 4th time I empty the full 15 litre bucket, and there is usually no dust to speak of.
I like the idea of making the baffle from a bucket. Others are using thin Plexiglas and bending, marking, cutting to shape! This is a great time saving idea. The only thing ill do differently is mount to a 30 or 50 gallon drum. To much time spent emptying 5 gal buckets. Awesome job!
Nice design, and good editing.
Excellent video would save me money for filters and bags for my shop vacuum. Also allow you to remove dust without breathing half of it in!
You still need to filter the air, just that the filter doesn't get dirty as fast.
Hola maestro, muchasgracias por compartir sus conocimientos saludos desde Chile ( Isla de Chiloé,Quellón. )
I'm seriously loving your hair style here :D
I dropped my store bought plastic cone shaped one and it burst. I've been meaning to repair it but now I see a better way. Thanks! I'm considerign adding a cyclone to the central house vac as well. Do you have a static suppression idea?
Another feature of your approach of solid PVC pipe and stacked buckets is that it should be easier to secure to a rolling base to keep up with the shop vac.
Extra thumbs up for not stretching the video out. This had content enough for 3 videos but you just pack in the good ideas one on top of the other and keep moving! You included the findings on the threaded coupling hack, the failure of melt welding and the narrow hose and even how to measure the efficiency all with minimal to do! Everybody else TAKE NOTE and do likewise.
Very good !!!! Congratulations!!!
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I love that you name it as cyclone, because that reminds of a mesocyclone
I have a tip for the cyclone.
Angle the inlet into the cyclone downward just enough so that the dust and air stream, when it makes its way all the way around, doesn't collide with the incoming stream. Angle it so that when it makes a circuit, it comes in under the inlet. The momentum of the dust won't be interrupted and will have a downward vector, and will be less turbulent without the collision, enabling the entrained dust to settle more efficiently.
Berkana r/iamverysmart
Berkana
Berkana well, juat looking at the cyclone when he sucks it back the second time, and you will see the dust inside the cyclone, not interfering with the incoming stream as it makes it first lap
great design for the DIY. I did something similar with a big orange street cone turned upside down. Gorilla glued on the intake port. Made the plywood plates etc. to seal the top. Place on top a metal trash can. But my Lowes shop vac would literally collapse the trash can and street cone if collection hose got blocked by hand or against a surface while vacuuming.
Mathias I like this idea I was thinking of incorporating a dust chip trap into each stationary tool in my new shop to save on the cleaning of the shop dust collector tubes and the main collector.
I read in some of the comments that some persons are worried about static charge. If they run some bare copper wire across the top bucket on the inside (in the air flow) and pass it through the bucket to the outside with a bolt they can run a ground line to the tool or main power ground.
Keep up the good work
Very nice, going to have some work to get this in my work area, But I'm sure it will be well worth the effort.
Hi Mathias, if you don't want to have any dust in the vacuum cleaner bucket, put a water trap between the vacuum cleaner and the collector bucket, the fine dust will be trapped mixed with the water. Thanks for sharing.
Hi from lithuania, you are very very good with wood :) i like your works :)
Today I build one! it works surprisingly well!
Matthias Wandel, vocês é de mais, vai ser criativo assim lá em casa,rsrsrs PARABÉNS, quando vier para o Brasil não esqueça de nos visitar!
Hahaha. Good one! Now if you were to use a 55gallon drum for the collection area you'd be on to something. It would take a long time to fill one of those.
this is awesome dude
6g? I wouldn't be too concerned about that! Great job as always Matthias.
your cyclone is slightly more efficient as it had 2 passes. I work it out to be about 99.6% - so even more impressive!
Teus projetos são extraordinários são indiscutiveis não tenho nem palavras pra dizer, só tenho a dizer parabéns.
Congrats you just made a Dyson