can a small cyclone do chip extraction too?

[mickthetree]

Hi all

I have a drum shop vac at the moment which does great work, but it is a royal pain to empty.

I have a spare dustbin with an MDF lid that I used very successfully when doing some house renovation with some old waste pipes to create a sort of cyclone. Worked pretty well. I called her Big Bertha!

I was thinking of putting her outside the workshop under cover with a cyclone on top, but are they just for dust extraction? or will these small cyclones also handle chips from my thicknesser? I have plenty of hose and I might also put the vac out there on a remote control.

My hose on my vac is about 60ish mm I think. Most of these small ones seem to be made for a domestic vac size pipe.

 

[marcros]

what vac is it? I have my camvac using a drop box for chips, but a cyclone would work too. But that is a ttwin motor ine with plenty of suck. I was told on here that a single motor wouldn't do the job, but I didnt have one to test it.

 

[mickthetree]

it is one of these. Single motor. Has a hefty amount of suck and its not too loud, but I've never gotten my head around air flow rates HVLP vs LVHP etc.