Howdy Group:
I've installed a 2 HP dust collector for my lathes. It collects mainly fine dust, which I wanted. On the lower clear bag, I'm having trouble getting a good seal with the band. I noticed the dust is really well packed in the bag. Would a pre collector (garbage can) remove a lot of the dust? I know a pre collector does catch a lot of chips.
What are your suggestions for finishing my system?
Joe Yablonski
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No, a pre-collector does not catch the fine dust. You should be able to seal your bottom bag if you have the right band for your unit. If you have a Jet DC use the new band that has a piece of foam inside of a cloth cover. Using just the metal band without the foam the bag is hard to seal.
Joe,
My pre collector catches 95% of the dust and chips. The only particles that make it to my dust collector bag looks like really fine dust. I think I bought the trash can venturi lid at Woodcraft.
I use the pre collector garbage can as my floor vacuum. I d>
Hi Joe! Turning your single stage dust collector into a two stage dust collector using the garbage can lid adapter works very well in situations where you have a lot of chips produced (i.e. planers, jointers, etc.). It will not collect very fine dust - that will just go straight to the dust collector bag. I would install floor sweep fittings with blast gates near your lathes to collect their debris after you are done turning. That's what I have done. Your waste from the lathes will end up (for the most part) in the garbage can separator. The real benefit here is that you will not have to go through the pain of emptying your lower bag (or changing the plastic bag) as often on your dust collector. That's a real benefit in my book! Happy turning!
- Dan Klima
If your collector is leaking around the band, try this. Buy a 20" bicycle tube, slit it lengthwise in half, keep the ring without the valve on it. Slip this on the metal flange before putting the bag on, then put your band clamp on. This should solve most leak problems.
Joe C.
Good idea - thanks.
Don
Unfortunately, I haven't as good luck with the 2 stage setup. My garbage can lid came from Woodcraft several years ago and fits quite tightly on the galvanized can I got for it. The collector is a Jet in the 1.5 to 2 hp range as I recall (it is 220v) and I wouldn't think my pipe system is particularly efficient (the collector is in one room and the pipes branch off in many different angles into 2 other room that make up my shop). My problem is that dispite all this, the suction is still great enough to suck all the chips, no matter how large, through the can and into the lower bag on the collector. I've added an elbow to the inside of the can (having suspected that the layout of the inlet and outlet created a vortex that didn't allow the chips to reach the bottom of the can), but it has not helped. There are so many positive comments here about the setup, I figure I must be doing something wrong, but I have no clue what it might be. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Art Learmonth
Dan Klima wrote:
Thanks for the info. My new dc leaks in a cuppla places where the metal band is kinked (shipped that way). SH
A pre-collector near the lathe will improve your dust collection. The cyclone lid that goes on a garbage can is much easier to empty than the DC bag, and that will at least cut down on the frustration of the lower bag removal/attachment. For the leakage issue you might consider some kind of self-stick insulation in the DC rim.
My
I am going to concede that I do not yet own one of those fancy dust collector thingies, much less a cyclone can en-route to it. That said, why not insert a 1/2" mesh hardwire baffle into the collection can? As I envision it, the baffle would just be a rolled up tube that would be directly below the suction side tube. It should not actually seal it off but come to within perhaps an inch of the cannister top. This would be enough to keep the chips in the cannister until it was nearly full but still allow chips hitting the impeller to sound the alarm that the cannister was actually full.
Just a thought. If you put a slight taper in the baffle (wide end at the top), I think it might even work a bit better.
Bill
Art and Diane wrote in news:FzTDd.29445$wu4.28374@attbi_s52:
Taller can?
Patriarch
I kind of hate to ask this, but are you sure you have it hooked up the right way? On mine the hose from the lathe comes in on the perimeter of the lid. The hose to the collector comes out of the center of the lid. That really is the only reason I can think of for the setup not to work.
My set up is similar to yours. The collector is in another room and there must be 30 feet of 4" pipe between it and the bin by the lathe. I have the Veritas lid from Lee Valley Tools. I don't remember the rating of the collector, but 1.5 hp wouldn't be far wrong.
I just went thru this. I needed a bigger can. My galvanized can had a standard opening, but it was too short. I got a bigass industrial 55 gallon garbage can, and it works better. Still some stuff gets sucked thru, but major improvement.
The lid appears to be symetrical, so I don't think that's the problem I also added an elbow on the inside of the inlet to try to break up the cyclonic action, but the results are the same.
Art
Derek Andrews wrote:
Is this the one?
I would think that the last thing you want to do is break up the cyclonic action. My guess is that the Woodcraft model doesn't create such an efficient cyclone by virtue of the elbow, symmetric positioning of the ports and angle at which the hoses enter.
No. Mine is not like the current Woodcraft model. When I added the elbow, I was trying to more or less duplicate the elbow concept the new model uses. Mine is more like the LV version, but instead of having an opening in the center, it has 2 on the outer rim. If you can imagine a 2nd opening that is the mirror image of the outer opening. In effect, it would be easy to connect the 2 with a short piece of hose inside the can because they point toward each other. It's like there is so much suction, the incoming chips flow directly from the inlet into the outlet without dropping to the bottom of the can.
Art
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