Upgrading cheap Tit** shop vac. I use this with a respirator for general workshop cleaning as well as for the mitre saw.
Ordered the Cen-Tec Quick Click Separator to mate with a cheap wet & dry from ScrewLoose.
I have upgraded the pretty rubbish sock filter that came with it to a pleated canister design which at least has a dust rating of sorts. I'll still use the respirator when cleaning the workshop.
Parts - blue PE-HD food bin to act as the chip / larger debris container, the cyclonic attachment with a gasket, some 63mm antistatic ducting and some silicone grease
Cutting a hole in the lid. I don't have a jigsaw so i sharpened a set of dividers and set these to the radius then used them to score the circumference for the gasket. Working from both sides took about 5mins before it was scored through. Came out pretty neat.
Then I marked out the holes for the bolts, drilled these out, fitted the gasket with some silicone grease on both sides to help with the seal and fitted the lid to the cyclone
Then just attached it all up, I also added silicone grease to the gasket on the drum and on the vac itself
(edit! had the in and out the wrong way round blame the noggin not the tool works much better now
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Initial impressions - good, no loss suction (subjectively, will measure at some point). large bits magically fall into the bucket and fine stuff goes into the vac chamber. when I upgrade the shop vac the whole system can just be plugged in. I may even run some pvc pipe outside to vent depending on how much that would affect suction. I'm currently reading through the Bill Pentz (thanks @baldkev )
Ordered the Cen-Tec Quick Click Separator to mate with a cheap wet & dry from ScrewLoose.
I have upgraded the pretty rubbish sock filter that came with it to a pleated canister design which at least has a dust rating of sorts. I'll still use the respirator when cleaning the workshop.
Parts - blue PE-HD food bin to act as the chip / larger debris container, the cyclonic attachment with a gasket, some 63mm antistatic ducting and some silicone grease
Then I marked out the holes for the bolts, drilled these out, fitted the gasket with some silicone grease on both sides to help with the seal and fitted the lid to the cyclone
Then just attached it all up, I also added silicone grease to the gasket on the drum and on the vac itself
(edit! had the in and out the wrong way round blame the noggin not the tool works much better now
)Initial impressions - good, no loss suction (subjectively, will measure at some point). large bits magically fall into the bucket and fine stuff goes into the vac chamber. when I upgrade the shop vac the whole system can just be plugged in. I may even run some pvc pipe outside to vent depending on how much that would affect suction. I'm currently reading through the Bill Pentz (thanks @baldkev )
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