Finally: a Dust Collector!

[-MIKE-]

I traded a couple peripherals I wasn't using any more plus $70 (tax included) for a Delta AP400 roll around dust collector. It looks to be is really good shape.

Someone must have used it for some drywall work, as there's sheetrock dust around the collars and the bag, so I'm going to take it apart for a good cleaning and probably wash the bags and filters.

I know this is a low end model and not powerful enough for long, multiple runs, so I'll probably set it up close to the CMS and RAS and roll it out to the big power tools when I use them. I'm just excited to have something better than the shop vac for dust collection.

[Leon]

The hook has been set... Shocking how much cleaner the shop is with a dust collector.

[-MIKE-]

Looking forward to that.

[dadiOH]

I don't blame you...the difference is night and day.

[Han]

-MIKE- wrote in news:j9ve8v$rm8$ [e-mail]:

I'm too lazy to look upwhat kind of DC this is. I doadvise to put a cyclone separator before the DC. Just a metal garbage can and lid with a tangential inlet and centered outlet will do it. Or you can buy a lid ...

[RonB]

I'll second this whole-heatedly. I bought the Grizzly G1028Z, which is similar to yours, last fall and it came one of the trash-can separators. The separator is the best part of the deal because it keeps you from having to remove the bag (not all that easy). I get about 1-15 trash cans full of debris before I have to pull the bag off. It also keeps hard, heavy objects out of your impeller.

And - NO you cannot put a garbage bag in the trash can to make emptying easier! It is hard to dig the shredded bag out of the blower.

RonB

[Larry Jaques]

What? You're not even touting Festools today? I read the leadin and then you stopped. Hmmm, very uncharacteristic of you, Leon. ;)

-- The problem with borrowing money from China is that thirty minutes later, you feel broke again. --Steve Bridges as Obama

[Larry Jaques]

My lid came free with the Griz 1029 DC, so all I needed to buy was the metal can.

I'm wondering if I should ground...

-- Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. -- Seneca

[RonB]

Correction - 10-15 trash cans....

[Han]

Larry Jaques wrote in news: [e-mail]:

I think you should.

[Han]

Han wrote in news:Xns9F9F9B19D4E26ikkezelf@

216.151.153.163:

[-MIKE-]

Yes, for the infamous dust collector explosion that has never been documented nor witnessed. :-)

(where's my popcorn?)

[-MIKE-]

D'OH!

[CW]

Larry Jaques wrote in news: [e-mail]:

I think you should.

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Yes indeed. Ground it to the mailbox.

[Puckdropper]

"CW" wrote in news:foednZ7fE7ndr1nTnZ2dnUVZ [e-mail]:

For safety's sake, don't use anything conductive. Conductive things conduct electricity which could kill you!

Puckdropper

[SonomaProducts.com]

True that probabability of explosion is remote at best. However, you can get a really great zap which isn't nice.

I am sure lots o' people are aware of Bill Pentz, the guru of dust collecting. I used the anti-static method he mentions here on his site and have never had a single shock. Scroll down to section F.

site by the way. Pretty much everything (and I mean everything) you could ever want to know about dust collection.

[m II]

Ground it with an insulated material.

You weren't grounded enough as a kid.

Puckdropper