This gives rise to two different industry standards used to rate filters. Not really believing that my owning and using the very best in cyclone and air cleaner put me in the hospital, I had my shop tested and the results scared me into getting serious about learning about fine dust collection (see my Introduction). In summary, the fittings, attachments, flex hose, ducting, fine filters, shop vacuums, air cleaners, dust collectors and cyclones we buy to protect our health that do such a good job of chip collection create a bad false sense of security. The goal is to capture the fine dust at the source and get rid of it. Compatible with any make/model shop vacuum; Tapered ports fit standard 1.5" to 2.5" hose fittings. CANISTER FILTER CAPTURES 99% OF 2-MICRON PARTICLES. 
I no longer clean filters every few hours of woodworking and always have tons of suction power. Sadly, the magazine and independent testing I oversaw badly upset many small shop vendors. Collect that dust and store it in metal cans to prevent fire danger. If you are in need of a dust separator that provides high quality support. When we get these tools home they instead blast dust everywhere. Unlike the larger airborne wood dust particles that our bodies eventually get rid of, the finest dust sized 2.5-microns and smaller, roughly one fortieth the thickness of a coarse human hair, cause many of the most serious long term health problems. can add up to 2.5" of static pressure. When we work inside we must wear a good properly fit mask and should vent outside (see Doc's Orders for more details). DIY product contains the cyclone separator, gasket, and mounting hardware. Our 2" duct at 4000 FPM only supports 87 CFM and that turns into less than 50 FPM at only 4.47 inches from the center of our duct. Likewise, any spark that lands in one of these piles can quickly get blown into a duct fire. Though lacking some of the features of the equally impressive Oneida Dust Deputy (no static-reducing strips or vacuum-mounting kit), Rockler's less-expensive Vortex captured just as much dustkeeping the vacuums filter clear and its tub nearly empty. For instance, a down drop sized to fit a 4" port reduces the airflow on an 800 CFM blower to only 349 CFM. These units are engineered to drop that heavy stuff into a collection bin and blow close to 100% of the airborne finest unhealthiest dust out the top. Just knowing what level of filtering we want is not enough. Our tools lack the hoods needed to contain and control the faster moving air streams so they spray the fine dust away and miss collecting much of the fine dust. I have mine hooked up to my miter saw and it does a good job and doesn't noticeably reduce the suction/air flow. Likewise, our small shop vendors consistently advertise improper filtering levels. We should think of our dust collection more like a water system instead of an oversized vacuum cleaner. This near invisible dust gets trapped in our shops where it build to incredibly unhealthy levels. WET OR DRY This simple and efficient design can be adapted for use with any make, size, or model wet/dry vacuum and features tapered 2. 
The American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) certify independent labs to test filtering material. QUICK-RELEASE COLLECTION DRUM: Heavy debris is captured in a 20-gallon drum. Good deal, on sale recently for $59. Most vendors also only offer 4" diameter ducting. Sucking pulls air from all directions, so airspeed drops off at the same rate as the area of a sphere. This is the normal for a 30-micron filter that lets the airborne dust blow away outdoors. Large commercial filtering setups constantly measure filter resistance with a pressure gauge. 4 inch Dust Separator Cyclone Dust Collector Kit for Use with Barrels Trash Cans Buckets or Custom Cen-Tec Systems 97470 Quick Click Dust Collection Separator, Translucent. read more. The sad part of this is the better quality Jet and Delta units that actually move more air, tested below the "best" rated units that were burning up their motors. Because dust separator vary drastically in size, knowing what will fit comfortably on to use it. Most vendors sell their dust collectors with what they call a 10' length of 4" flex hose that is really about a 7' long and closer to 3" in usable diameter. Doubling the filter area cuts the resistance four fold, cuts cleaning to one fourth as often and extends filter life four fold.
Current weight based industrial testing all but ignores the finest lightest 2.5-micron and smaller airborne dust particles now known over time to cause significant health damage. I'm sadly disappointed. Almost all "protected" workers in facilities that comply with OSHA guidelines still eventually develop fine wood dust related health problems with roughly one in fourteen now forced into an early wood dust related medical retirement. Our small shop vendors claim that shops and garages represent outdoor rather than indoor use so advertise outdoor filtering levels, yet deliver equipment that can only be used in covered indoor areas. All rights reserved. Eventually, a filter gets so torn open it no longer provides good fine filtering and needs to be replaced.
It only applied to large commercial facilities leaving the six out of seven professional woodworkers and all hobbyists that work in small shops unprotected. Medical air quality testing does measure these finest particles using much finer units measuring both particle counts and in parts per million. Opening more than one duct requires more airflow than our blowers can deliver, so fails to collect the dust. They are commonly used as the first stage in multiple stage dust collection systems, or as a product separator in air conveying systems. The mains reduce in size as branches break off. Yes, lots of people collect into cardboard and plastic drums, but we are going to be smarter than that! Created: March 2000
This means these pretty commercial designs are a terrible solution in our shops that only use a blower able to support one run open at a time.
Hobbyist vendors continued to push out low cost Pacific Rim imported copies of older tools known to be terrible dust generators. These changes minimize resistance so the vendors can advertise higher airflow numbers. They mostly only sell 4" diameter sized ducting with sharp ninety-degree bends, Ts, and very rough interior walled flexible hose. The following CFM requirements table gives the airflows required at each size and type of stationary woodworking tool to meet different dust collection standards. Festool and a few other brands have shown with their special tools engineered from the ground up with good fine dust collection built in that totally controls the airflow around where the wood is being machined actually get good fine dust collection with an oversized shop vacuum. Again with larger hobbyist stationary tools identical to smaller commercial tools we can use their same recommendations. That OSHA standard set allowable airborne dust levels five times higher than the minimum recommended by industrial hygienists and fifty times higher than now recommended by medical experts. Be careful of the advice you get on these forums, much of what you will hear is from people who are still on their first round of dust collectors and so enamored that they will defend their systems and ducting nearly to the death. Thank you for your support! a part time hobbyist woodworker in a few hours work gets exposed to far more dust than most workers in larger commercial facilities receive in months. In simple terms air volume defines how big of an area we can collect from, so the more area we need to provide collection for, the more air volume we need. If you cannot do that, then I recommend buying commercial independent laboratory certified 0.5 micron or better cartridge filters to protect your health. A few of the lesser quality imports exaggerated their airflows by as much as 100%. With typical 0.5-micron all polyester filters used for indoor air filtering we need about one square foot of filter area for every 4 CFM of dirty air.
After helping hundreds configure the ducting for their shops and doing these calculations, almost all small shops need only 6" ducting and fall into one of four categories. I immediately took care of the small stuff he suggested then got busy. As filters plug they kill the airflow needed for good collection, but cleaning rapidly breaks down the filter pores and so does clogging. These test results convinced me that almost every one of us that does woodworking in a small shop with indoor dust collection and almost everyone around us receives dangerously high fine airborne dust exposure. Now buy good quality filters. Most small shops need to use just 6" duct throughout their dust collection system. We instead mostly use older tool designs with little or no dust collection built in. This leaves our single runs with the airflow limited by the smallest pipe. As I said before, I don't recommend messing with filters at all. If you just blow the air outside without adding a separator and filters, that inlet size is often the ideal ducting diameter for optimum efficiency and minimum resistance. This maximum resistance is also very close to when we need to deep clean our felt filters in a washing machine and start all over building up a whole new cake of dust. Each of us must modify our tools to keep the fine dust protected from being blown away, controlled until it can be captured and then directed for delivery right into our dust collection hoods.
If we have a good dust collection that only misses 1% of the fine dust we still contaminate our shops with enough fine dust to cause 150 typical small shops to fail their air quality tests. Quantitative measures of quality are always easy to make when you have numbers at your disposal. This assures the filters will provide through each loading cycle a given level of filtering. Frankly, the price of the newer tools with dust collection built in remains so ridiculously high they have not yet earned my interest. Since almost all motors are designed to handle four or more times their running loads while starting, vendors can get away with this testing for a short while before the motor overheats and fails. This explains why we see almost no pickup just 2" inches from the end of our vacuum hoses. Pay particular attention to the building instructions for each as they have been refined from thousands successfully building their own units. Most air engineers target for a duct speed of roughly 4000 FPM because this is what we need to pickup most woodworking dust and keep our vertical ducts from plugging. Facility owners continue to fight back hard saying providing the recommended protections will bankrupt the woodworking industry. They were dead wrong, but so few knew anything about dust collection that we ended up with most of the magazines and even the two books on small shop dust collection following that same wrong lead leaving a mess today where most end up confused. Without big enough pipes, fittings, duct, and hose even the best system will be strangled and not move enough air! Customers who have used the [REPLACE_KEYWORD] before you wont accuse you of wrongdoing, will they? The resistance of our pipes can kill the airflow we need for good fine dust collection because a small pipe diameter acts just like a water valve. This more open condition left my 30 square foot bags with only 0.25" of resistance when brand new, but after seasoning they settled at about 2" of resistance after cleaning. We also need to know how big of a volume of air is needed to be moved at each machine to collect the dust. With almost no oversight, many claim whatever they want. All other major small shop dust collector vendors instead use a combination of small impellers and tiny ports to ensure that their motors do not burn up if a hose gets knocked loose and their blower runs with maximum airflow. Independent medical school testing on my cyclone design found the same results as our testing. AGET manufactures a complete line of cyclones, so the right sized collector can be chosen for different air handling performance needs. A compromise OSHA standard was set in 1989. Because of that growing number, the manufacturers should be able to provide better after-sales service and quality. Both the intake and outlet to the vacuum are designed to be compatible with industry standard wet-dry domestic vacuums and their hoses like Rigid, Shop Vac, Vacmaster, Dewalt, and many other brands. This is called seasoning. In the real world we have ducting, fittings, separators, cyclones and filters that add resistance. This causes our ducting to build up internal dust piles. Kindle Unlimited Membership Plans Use filters large enough to support the volumes of air we move and dust loading with filter material independently certified to provide sufficient fine dust filtering. The overall resistance in our dust collection system, known as static pressure, defines how big of a blower we need to power our system and move the desired air. Filter makers also provide the airflow and filtering levels for fully seasoned filters so air engineers can properly size outdoor filters. If we use that 4000 FPM in our air formula where FPM=CFM/Area we can compute how much air is moved in different sized pipes. Sadly, most hobbyist dust hoods are poorly engineered permitting the fine dust to escape from all over.
Our testing found in spite of advertising claims every small shop dust collector and cyclone we tested had filtering setup for "chip collection", not fine dust collection. ASHRAE sets the standards for indoor air quality testing, filtering, and airflow. That one cyclone was so dismal that it put close to one third of the material it collected right into its filters. (1) Flex-form Hose, Monday-Saturday: 9AM-5PM CT The five-caster base makes it stable and easy to maneuver around the shop. Because of this range of performance, we need independent filter evaluations. Vendors advertise these maximums forgetting to tell their customers that the performance is a curve with real maximum in use performance about half the advertised volume. Standard 15-amp 120-volt household circuits will safely run up to a real 1.5 hp motor. Good chip collection on almost all hobbyist larger stationary tools requires between 350 to 450 CFM just as calculated. If you have larger professional units, then you need to do the work.
The Dust Right Separator creates a cyclonic air flow that. This table intentionally does not address the airflow needed to capture the fine dust at smaller and hand held tools. Dust collector blowers generate about one tenth the pressure leaving the air more like water, hardly compressible at all. The small shop tool industry is stuck on the older 4" diameter ducting that was only ample to collect the chips at the old 450 CFM standard. Too little area also requires much more frequent filter cleaning. A little study showed that shops that must pass regular air quality inspections and filter their air almost all use 0.5-micron filters. Venting outside can make us pretty miserable in hot or very humid weather, but most find even with venting outside a couple of infra-red heat dishes will keep us comfortable even in the coldest sub-zero weather. Modifying the inlet and adding an air ramp can reduce that pressure even more. As a result, most small shop fine filters end up turning our dust collector and cyclones into "dust pumps" that fill our air with dangerously unhealthy dust levels. We can launch this much fine dust by beating our shop apron. Overwhelmed by all the options? For most to get best filter life today we need cyclone separators to amply protect our fine dust filters. Clearly these vendors were selling filters based upon outdoor fully "seasoned" ratings. There are static pressure calculators that will compute the total resistance for our dust collection ducting and other components. These visible airborne dust particles ruin freshly painted finishes. The only way to prevent this is to ensure our tools keep the fine dust controlled then move enough volume of air to capture it before it gets launched. LONGER LIFESPAN - Prevents fine dust and large debris from reaching your wet/dry vacuum's filter, reducing the need for cleanings and prolonging the lifespan of your filter. CFM Caution Please realize that this table shows the airflows needed for the different levels of collection for larger tools. Instead of passing close to 100% of the airborne dust right through my cyclone design separates much better. MADE IN AMERICA Our Dust Deputy DIY (Do-It-Yourself) cyclone lets you build the dust control system that works best for you. Putting a 4" sized port on a tool is about the same as only opening a water faucet about 40% then wondering why we get poor flow. Air engineers design to make their ducts run at 4000 FPM. Most of us already know this from using our shop vacuums that will only vacuum up right next to the hose nozzle, but on blow will send dust everywhere. Cleaned air is discharged through the side outlet transition. The bottom line here is any hobbyist fan table that does not also include amperage draw at each resistance level is not to be trusted because the blower more likely than not is running the motor well over its rated maximum amperage! The real peer reviewed medical studies show wood dust is very unhealthy and damages all exposed. Large facility owners argued strongly against the OSHA standard saying it was ridiculous, not possible to meet, and set them up for personal injury suits that would bankrupt their industry. We also tested the separation ability of the various dust collectors and cyclones. They can demonstrate any filtering level as long as they do not also share the airflow at that filtering level. Most incorrectly think we can eliminate our fine dust problems by wearing a good dual cartridge filtered mask whenever we make fine dust. ATTACHES TO 5 GALLON BUCKETS IN SECONDS - The dust separator clips to a 5 gallon bucket in seconds making for incredibly fast and easy setup. Rockler also sells the fittings/hardware with your supplying the catchment container but I agree, the transparent container with the kit lets one see how quickly the add on picks up and fills up! Over many years of too much exposure to this finest dust most develop health problems, many serious. Likewise most tools either have no built in dust collection or come with hoods that only provide good chip collection. To protect fine filters and address the clogging, you can either buy an expensive graduated filter with automatic cleaning system, or use a cyclone separator.
There are many people who have difficulty finding the perfect dust separator for themselves. When used with most power tools and shop vacuums, the Dust Right Separator captures sawdust, wood chips, and other debris before it enters your vacuum, preventing the loss of suction power caused by a clogged vacuum filter. At least three of the most popular magazines have recently shared dust collection articles recommending use of HVAC pipe to make complex ducting solutions with multiple down drop sizes.
Standard sizes: range from 2 HP to 7.5 HP, Common applications: smaller scale and maintenance woodshops.
I no longer clean filters every few hours of woodworking and always have tons of suction power. Sadly, the magazine and independent testing I oversaw badly upset many small shop vendors. Collect that dust and store it in metal cans to prevent fire danger. If you are in need of a dust separator that provides high quality support. When we get these tools home they instead blast dust everywhere. Unlike the larger airborne wood dust particles that our bodies eventually get rid of, the finest dust sized 2.5-microns and smaller, roughly one fortieth the thickness of a coarse human hair, cause many of the most serious long term health problems. can add up to 2.5" of static pressure. When we work inside we must wear a good properly fit mask and should vent outside (see Doc's Orders for more details). DIY product contains the cyclone separator, gasket, and mounting hardware. Our 2" duct at 4000 FPM only supports 87 CFM and that turns into less than 50 FPM at only 4.47 inches from the center of our duct. Likewise, any spark that lands in one of these piles can quickly get blown into a duct fire. Though lacking some of the features of the equally impressive Oneida Dust Deputy (no static-reducing strips or vacuum-mounting kit), Rockler's less-expensive Vortex captured just as much dustkeeping the vacuums filter clear and its tub nearly empty. For instance, a down drop sized to fit a 4" port reduces the airflow on an 800 CFM blower to only 349 CFM. These units are engineered to drop that heavy stuff into a collection bin and blow close to 100% of the airborne finest unhealthiest dust out the top. Just knowing what level of filtering we want is not enough. Our tools lack the hoods needed to contain and control the faster moving air streams so they spray the fine dust away and miss collecting much of the fine dust. I have mine hooked up to my miter saw and it does a good job and doesn't noticeably reduce the suction/air flow. Likewise, our small shop vendors consistently advertise improper filtering levels. We should think of our dust collection more like a water system instead of an oversized vacuum cleaner. This near invisible dust gets trapped in our shops where it build to incredibly unhealthy levels. WET OR DRY This simple and efficient design can be adapted for use with any make, size, or model wet/dry vacuum and features tapered 2. The American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) certify independent labs to test filtering material. QUICK-RELEASE COLLECTION DRUM: Heavy debris is captured in a 20-gallon drum. Good deal, on sale recently for $59. Most vendors also only offer 4" diameter ducting. Sucking pulls air from all directions, so airspeed drops off at the same rate as the area of a sphere. This is the normal for a 30-micron filter that lets the airborne dust blow away outdoors. Large commercial filtering setups constantly measure filter resistance with a pressure gauge. 4 inch Dust Separator Cyclone Dust Collector Kit for Use with Barrels Trash Cans Buckets or Custom Cen-Tec Systems 97470 Quick Click Dust Collection Separator, Translucent. read more. The sad part of this is the better quality Jet and Delta units that actually move more air, tested below the "best" rated units that were burning up their motors. Because dust separator vary drastically in size, knowing what will fit comfortably on to use it. Most vendors sell their dust collectors with what they call a 10' length of 4" flex hose that is really about a 7' long and closer to 3" in usable diameter. Doubling the filter area cuts the resistance four fold, cuts cleaning to one fourth as often and extends filter life four fold. Current weight based industrial testing all but ignores the finest lightest 2.5-micron and smaller airborne dust particles now known over time to cause significant health damage. I'm sadly disappointed. Almost all "protected" workers in facilities that comply with OSHA guidelines still eventually develop fine wood dust related health problems with roughly one in fourteen now forced into an early wood dust related medical retirement. Our small shop vendors claim that shops and garages represent outdoor rather than indoor use so advertise outdoor filtering levels, yet deliver equipment that can only be used in covered indoor areas. All rights reserved. Eventually, a filter gets so torn open it no longer provides good fine filtering and needs to be replaced.
It only applied to large commercial facilities leaving the six out of seven professional woodworkers and all hobbyists that work in small shops unprotected. Medical air quality testing does measure these finest particles using much finer units measuring both particle counts and in parts per million. Opening more than one duct requires more airflow than our blowers can deliver, so fails to collect the dust. They are commonly used as the first stage in multiple stage dust collection systems, or as a product separator in air conveying systems. The mains reduce in size as branches break off. Yes, lots of people collect into cardboard and plastic drums, but we are going to be smarter than that! Created: March 2000
This means these pretty commercial designs are a terrible solution in our shops that only use a blower able to support one run open at a time.
After helping hundreds configure the ducting for their shops and doing these calculations, almost all small shops need only 6" ducting and fall into one of four categories. I immediately took care of the small stuff he suggested then got busy. As filters plug they kill the airflow needed for good collection, but cleaning rapidly breaks down the filter pores and so does clogging. These test results convinced me that almost every one of us that does woodworking in a small shop with indoor dust collection and almost everyone around us receives dangerously high fine airborne dust exposure. Now buy good quality filters. Most small shops need to use just 6" duct throughout their dust collection system. We instead mostly use older tool designs with little or no dust collection built in. This leaves our single runs with the airflow limited by the smallest pipe. As I said before, I don't recommend messing with filters at all. If you just blow the air outside without adding a separator and filters, that inlet size is often the ideal ducting diameter for optimum efficiency and minimum resistance. This maximum resistance is also very close to when we need to deep clean our felt filters in a washing machine and start all over building up a whole new cake of dust. Each of us must modify our tools to keep the fine dust protected from being blown away, controlled until it can be captured and then directed for delivery right into our dust collection hoods.
If we have a good dust collection that only misses 1% of the fine dust we still contaminate our shops with enough fine dust to cause 150 typical small shops to fail their air quality tests. Quantitative measures of quality are always easy to make when you have numbers at your disposal. This assures the filters will provide through each loading cycle a given level of filtering. Frankly, the price of the newer tools with dust collection built in remains so ridiculously high they have not yet earned my interest. Since almost all motors are designed to handle four or more times their running loads while starting, vendors can get away with this testing for a short while before the motor overheats and fails. This explains why we see almost no pickup just 2" inches from the end of our vacuum hoses. Pay particular attention to the building instructions for each as they have been refined from thousands successfully building their own units. Most air engineers target for a duct speed of roughly 4000 FPM because this is what we need to pickup most woodworking dust and keep our vertical ducts from plugging. Facility owners continue to fight back hard saying providing the recommended protections will bankrupt the woodworking industry. They were dead wrong, but so few knew anything about dust collection that we ended up with most of the magazines and even the two books on small shop dust collection following that same wrong lead leaving a mess today where most end up confused. Without big enough pipes, fittings, duct, and hose even the best system will be strangled and not move enough air! Customers who have used the [REPLACE_KEYWORD] before you wont accuse you of wrongdoing, will they? The resistance of our pipes can kill the airflow we need for good fine dust collection because a small pipe diameter acts just like a water valve. This more open condition left my 30 square foot bags with only 0.25" of resistance when brand new, but after seasoning they settled at about 2" of resistance after cleaning. We also need to know how big of a volume of air is needed to be moved at each machine to collect the dust. With almost no oversight, many claim whatever they want. All other major small shop dust collector vendors instead use a combination of small impellers and tiny ports to ensure that their motors do not burn up if a hose gets knocked loose and their blower runs with maximum airflow. Independent medical school testing on my cyclone design found the same results as our testing. AGET manufactures a complete line of cyclones, so the right sized collector can be chosen for different air handling performance needs. A compromise OSHA standard was set in 1989. Because of that growing number, the manufacturers should be able to provide better after-sales service and quality. Both the intake and outlet to the vacuum are designed to be compatible with industry standard wet-dry domestic vacuums and their hoses like Rigid, Shop Vac, Vacmaster, Dewalt, and many other brands. This is called seasoning. In the real world we have ducting, fittings, separators, cyclones and filters that add resistance. This causes our ducting to build up internal dust piles. Kindle Unlimited Membership Plans Use filters large enough to support the volumes of air we move and dust loading with filter material independently certified to provide sufficient fine dust filtering. The overall resistance in our dust collection system, known as static pressure, defines how big of a blower we need to power our system and move the desired air. Filter makers also provide the airflow and filtering levels for fully seasoned filters so air engineers can properly size outdoor filters. If we use that 4000 FPM in our air formula where FPM=CFM/Area we can compute how much air is moved in different sized pipes. Sadly, most hobbyist dust hoods are poorly engineered permitting the fine dust to escape from all over.
Our testing found in spite of advertising claims every small shop dust collector and cyclone we tested had filtering setup for "chip collection", not fine dust collection. ASHRAE sets the standards for indoor air quality testing, filtering, and airflow. That one cyclone was so dismal that it put close to one third of the material it collected right into its filters. (1) Flex-form Hose, Monday-Saturday: 9AM-5PM CT The five-caster base makes it stable and easy to maneuver around the shop. Because of this range of performance, we need independent filter evaluations. Vendors advertise these maximums forgetting to tell their customers that the performance is a curve with real maximum in use performance about half the advertised volume. Standard 15-amp 120-volt household circuits will safely run up to a real 1.5 hp motor. Good chip collection on almost all hobbyist larger stationary tools requires between 350 to 450 CFM just as calculated. If you have larger professional units, then you need to do the work.
The Dust Right Separator creates a cyclonic air flow that. This table intentionally does not address the airflow needed to capture the fine dust at smaller and hand held tools. Dust collector blowers generate about one tenth the pressure leaving the air more like water, hardly compressible at all. The small shop tool industry is stuck on the older 4" diameter ducting that was only ample to collect the chips at the old 450 CFM standard. Too little area also requires much more frequent filter cleaning. A little study showed that shops that must pass regular air quality inspections and filter their air almost all use 0.5-micron filters. Venting outside can make us pretty miserable in hot or very humid weather, but most find even with venting outside a couple of infra-red heat dishes will keep us comfortable even in the coldest sub-zero weather. Modifying the inlet and adding an air ramp can reduce that pressure even more. As a result, most small shop fine filters end up turning our dust collector and cyclones into "dust pumps" that fill our air with dangerously unhealthy dust levels. We can launch this much fine dust by beating our shop apron. Overwhelmed by all the options? For most to get best filter life today we need cyclone separators to amply protect our fine dust filters. Clearly these vendors were selling filters based upon outdoor fully "seasoned" ratings. There are static pressure calculators that will compute the total resistance for our dust collection ducting and other components. These visible airborne dust particles ruin freshly painted finishes. The only way to prevent this is to ensure our tools keep the fine dust controlled then move enough volume of air to capture it before it gets launched. LONGER LIFESPAN - Prevents fine dust and large debris from reaching your wet/dry vacuum's filter, reducing the need for cleanings and prolonging the lifespan of your filter. CFM Caution Please realize that this table shows the airflows needed for the different levels of collection for larger tools. Instead of passing close to 100% of the airborne dust right through my cyclone design separates much better. MADE IN AMERICA Our Dust Deputy DIY (Do-It-Yourself) cyclone lets you build the dust control system that works best for you. Putting a 4" sized port on a tool is about the same as only opening a water faucet about 40% then wondering why we get poor flow. Air engineers design to make their ducts run at 4000 FPM. Most of us already know this from using our shop vacuums that will only vacuum up right next to the hose nozzle, but on blow will send dust everywhere. Cleaned air is discharged through the side outlet transition. The bottom line here is any hobbyist fan table that does not also include amperage draw at each resistance level is not to be trusted because the blower more likely than not is running the motor well over its rated maximum amperage! The real peer reviewed medical studies show wood dust is very unhealthy and damages all exposed. Large facility owners argued strongly against the OSHA standard saying it was ridiculous, not possible to meet, and set them up for personal injury suits that would bankrupt their industry. We also tested the separation ability of the various dust collectors and cyclones. They can demonstrate any filtering level as long as they do not also share the airflow at that filtering level. Most incorrectly think we can eliminate our fine dust problems by wearing a good dual cartridge filtered mask whenever we make fine dust. ATTACHES TO 5 GALLON BUCKETS IN SECONDS - The dust separator clips to a 5 gallon bucket in seconds making for incredibly fast and easy setup. Rockler also sells the fittings/hardware with your supplying the catchment container but I agree, the transparent container with the kit lets one see how quickly the add on picks up and fills up! Over many years of too much exposure to this finest dust most develop health problems, many serious. Likewise most tools either have no built in dust collection or come with hoods that only provide good chip collection. To protect fine filters and address the clogging, you can either buy an expensive graduated filter with automatic cleaning system, or use a cyclone separator.
There are many people who have difficulty finding the perfect dust separator for themselves. When used with most power tools and shop vacuums, the Dust Right Separator captures sawdust, wood chips, and other debris before it enters your vacuum, preventing the loss of suction power caused by a clogged vacuum filter. At least three of the most popular magazines have recently shared dust collection articles recommending use of HVAC pipe to make complex ducting solutions with multiple down drop sizes.
Standard sizes: range from 2 HP to 7.5 HP, Common applications: smaller scale and maintenance woodshops.