Anyone else seen these on Ebay?

Not sure about the one you listed , but check out

HTH

Jim Ray, President McFeely's Square Drive Screws

I see a lot of hose there...and a reduction in suction. LOL Joe

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I don't get it... they've made everything transparent *except* the part that really *needs* to be transparent: the chip bin.

What's the point?

-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

sorry, just testing this group =)

alt.test is down ----> that way.

You can see that material is moving properly through the cyclone as opposed to being stuck at a clog someplace.

Plus it looks real cool.

It looks to me like the buyer supplies his own chip bin.

Yeah, well, I don't need a transparent cyclone to tell me that material is, or isn't, moving. I'm too busy watching the tool I'm working at to pay attention to what the dust collector looks like. If it's full, or clogged, I figure it out pretty quickly, when the sawdust starts pouring out of the bandsaw, or the chips begin to fly out the front of the planer.

Yep. Where can I buy a transparent chip bin for my Oneida DC?

-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

I dunno... I have a metal-bodied cyclone (Oneida 1.5HP), and it seems to me that most of the noise that it produces is due to large volumes of air moving at fairly high speed. IOW, it sounds more like wind than like a machine.

In any event, I don't think the noise level from my dust collector is particularly relevant: the TS, RAS, planer, and routers, at least, make a

-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

I'd imagine it's also quite a bit quieter than a comparable metal unit.