I guess most of you have a proper manly shopvac. I don't. And I was tired of buying new dust bags. So a few months ago I searched for self-made separators and found this: http://www.jpthien.com/cy.htm
Decided to build my own, using a planter from IKEA, some plywood from my lathe's shipping crate, and a set of casters that were supposed to go under the second work bench which I never built. Here is the lower baffle sitting in the bucket (edit: Pierre pointed out that the drop slot in the original design is 240 degrees, while mine is 120 degrees -- this was not intentional, it's an oversight):
And the whole assembly. The PVC fittings are glued in with hot glue:
I placed everything on a small trolley so that I can move it around the shop:
I've used the thing for about half a year now, and I love it. Virtually everything stays in the bucket. Nothing makes it to the dust bag. Saw dust, chips, swarf from drilling ... you name it.
Decided to build my own, using a planter from IKEA, some plywood from my lathe's shipping crate, and a set of casters that were supposed to go under the second work bench which I never built. Here is the lower baffle sitting in the bucket (edit: Pierre pointed out that the drop slot in the original design is 240 degrees, while mine is 120 degrees -- this was not intentional, it's an oversight):
And the whole assembly. The PVC fittings are glued in with hot glue:
I placed everything on a small trolley so that I can move it around the shop:
I've used the thing for about half a year now, and I love it. Virtually everything stays in the bucket. Nothing makes it to the dust bag. Saw dust, chips, swarf from drilling ... you name it.
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