Running a Dust Collector with No Filter??

[@RichmondWoodworks]

This episode is quite a short one, but the next one is going to be a longer form episode. Also, there may be a little easter egg/hint on what I am going to be building in the next one! Take care everyone.

[@aydngulgun8936]

Oh my god, I feel honored. And here is the reason why I asked you this question. I am designing a dust collection system for the CNC machine that I am building and through experiment I saw that a good cyclon eliminates most of the big particles and for the most dangerous small ones filters are both expensive and hard to maintain. That is why I was designing a water curtain to use after the cyclon to trap the fine dust and get rid of it properly. Here in Türkiye, we have 3 motor (1200w x 3) vacumes that are easily available and very cheap I started with them, and removing the filter and using only the cyclone and the water curtain yielded really good results. So I got myself a 5.5kw centrifugal fan and started to design the same system but this time for 150mm ducting. currently, I am trying to build a cyclon from a 55-gallon (208 Liters) barrel, and soon a bigger water curtain.

[@RichmondWoodworks]

Oh Wow! I would love to see the end result, very curious how the water curtain would function (as I google water curtains and dust collection). Looking at hundreds of videos on dust collection over the years where they have a cylcone, I believe there is always a level of dust going into the dust collector itself. However, it is very very small, I have seen a couple systems where there are two cylcones which may help? I would love to have a dust collector that you don't really have to maintain, that way I would not need to really access it at all. In the next video I go through creating the new dust collector cabinet, I think it makes really good use of the corner of a workshop, and not having much need to access it frequently because of the cyclone. Thanks again for the idea to do the baseline and look forward to hopefully seeing your dust collection setup, please do share it when you make it.

[@Stevei63]

Thanks again for this. 1 suggestion and 1 question. - As you get people all over the world viewing your videos. Maybe a good idea to also show results in CFM (Cubic Feet per Minute), Then it's easier for people to compare results. - Where did you purchase the Dust Collector from? I live in Sydney. Thanks - Steve

[@RichmondWoodworks]

haha, I was thinking the same thing when I recorded the video initially...however the anomometer I happen to purchase doesn't have CFM as a setting, maybe I need to buy a different one, I suppose I could have done the conversion myself. Thank you for the feedback, much appreciated. I bought the dust collector from mmvic.com.au/ they have all the variants of the CamVac, however, when I bought the Record Power Air Cleaner the remote didn't work, I have emailed a couple times without a response - so they may not be so responsive if something goes wrong. It could have just been me though.