Baldhead
Established Member
I've bought a dust commander cyclone with 55mm ports, I'm assuming I'll have to get 63mm hose and 'pack out' the difference, anyone else had this problem and where's the best place to buy the hose?
TIA
Stew
TIA
Stew
Dust extraction hose
- Thread starter Baldhead
- Start date
Help Support UKworkshop.co.uk:
Myfordman
AKA 9Fingers
try ebay to establish a market price to compare with the usual suspects.
MattRoberts
Established Member
Yeah, it's a pain in the ass. I kept with my 32mm (ish) hose and just found a bunch of pipe fittings from b&q to Jerry rig it together
Let me know if you want details on which fittings I got
Let me know if you want details on which fittings I got
Old thread I know....
Matt
I am thinking of getting the Dust Commander and blue tub like in your above photo
Will the barrel need re-inforcing to prevent implosion which I have read about ?
Will fit it to my Nilfisk vacuum
Matt
I am thinking of getting the Dust Commander and blue tub like in your above photo
Will the barrel need re-inforcing to prevent implosion which I have read about ?
Will fit it to my Nilfisk vacuum
mbartlett99
Established Member
Can't speak to Matts but my first attempt was with a 25L version to my Nilfisk - it lasted seconds. 2nd attempt was a 25L bucket type thing with a screw top from Ebay.
My choices were :
Standard blue plastic drum (takes the suction OK unless you let the hot exhaust from the vacuum blow on and soften it)
50mm coldwater aquarium hose (cheap, tough)
Car radiator hose clamps (cheap, strong, pretty well plated against rust)
Floplast 48mm or any equivalent solvent pipe couplers ( outside dia fits snugly into the dust commander ports) sand out the ridge on the inside for smooth airflow.
Karcher commercial vac on a shelf above the drum (that sits on the floor)
18mm ply disk as a stronger lid for the barrel and
cyclone set halfway down into the barrel so it's better supported and not so stupidly unstable
roughly like this
Here it is being used to remove plaster dust from a loft
with 10M of hose between vacuum and cyclone
Standard blue plastic drum (takes the suction OK unless you let the hot exhaust from the vacuum blow on and soften it)
50mm coldwater aquarium hose (cheap, tough)
Car radiator hose clamps (cheap, strong, pretty well plated against rust)
Floplast 48mm or any equivalent solvent pipe couplers ( outside dia fits snugly into the dust commander ports) sand out the ridge on the inside for smooth airflow.
Karcher commercial vac on a shelf above the drum (that sits on the floor)
18mm ply disk as a stronger lid for the barrel and
cyclone set halfway down into the barrel so it's better supported and not so stupidly unstable
Attachments
Interesting I'm just building something similar
A couple of questions
Where did you find 48mm couplers of the ones i found say there 50 mm
https://www.screwfix.com/p/floplast-str ... _container
After recessing the cyclone into the lid how did you secure it?
Thanks for posting
Ewan
Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk
A couple of questions
Where did you find 48mm couplers of the ones i found say there 50 mm
https://www.screwfix.com/p/floplast-str ... _container
After recessing the cyclone into the lid how did you secure it?
Thanks for posting
Ewan
Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk
Sawdust=manglitter
Established Member
I bought my 100mm flexible extraction hose from the below website and the quality of construction is great. I'm pretty sure they also do 63mm diameter and most other sizes
http://www.ductstore.co.uk/acatalog/Dus ... _hose.html
http://www.ductstore.co.uk/acatalog/Dus ... _hose.html
That tin drum set looks smart but you are paying £45 odd for a steel can. Ouch !
In answer to the questions above:
The Flo Plast fittings I picked up a couple of years ago from (probably) B&Q or Screwfix say 48mm WS08, BS EN 1455 B CS, and ABS on the side. Now you know as much as me
. Mine look just like the ones in your link but the white ridge around the middle is on the inside, not the outside.
The thing that matters though isn't the inside diameter of the fitting (or maybe the ID of the pipe they are meant to be used with) which is what the 48mm will refer to, it's the coincidence that these fittings are a slide fit INTO the dust commander connections and a loose but not sloppy fit into 50mm acquarium hose. They just let you join two equal sized pieces of pipe together. In practice I clamp them into the hose and just slide the white ends into the cyclone.
Buy the cyclone then just take it down to B&Q and your local plumbers merchants and try things to see if they fit
The trick to fixing the cyclone in the lid is to make a stack of plywood rings and another bottom about 4 inches below the lid. The whole thing looks like a stubby top hat, with a hole in the top, dropped upside down into the blue barrel. If you figure out your dimensions, the cyclone screws into the lower piece of wood like normal but is supported all round because it's a snug fit where it passes through the bigger disk.
You can still knock the barrel over but now you'll never damage the screw connections around the lower opening of the cyclone. Adds a bit of weight too, to resist the pull of the hoses.
In answer to the questions above:
The Flo Plast fittings I picked up a couple of years ago from (probably) B&Q or Screwfix say 48mm WS08, BS EN 1455 B CS, and ABS on the side. Now you know as much as me
. Mine look just like the ones in your link but the white ridge around the middle is on the inside, not the outside. The thing that matters though isn't the inside diameter of the fitting (or maybe the ID of the pipe they are meant to be used with) which is what the 48mm will refer to, it's the coincidence that these fittings are a slide fit INTO the dust commander connections and a loose but not sloppy fit into 50mm acquarium hose. They just let you join two equal sized pieces of pipe together. In practice I clamp them into the hose and just slide the white ends into the cyclone.
Buy the cyclone then just take it down to B&Q and your local plumbers merchants and try things to see if they fit
The trick to fixing the cyclone in the lid is to make a stack of plywood rings and another bottom about 4 inches below the lid. The whole thing looks like a stubby top hat, with a hole in the top, dropped upside down into the blue barrel. If you figure out your dimensions, the cyclone screws into the lower piece of wood like normal but is supported all round because it's a snug fit where it passes through the bigger disk.
You can still knock the barrel over but now you'll never damage the screw connections around the lower opening of the cyclone. Adds a bit of weight too, to resist the pull of the hoses.
