Rknott2007
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After my sneak peak yesterday here is thew final product. I brought the plans online (same as Dave L I believe), and used the blower from the fox f50- 842 extractor. I added a neutral vane and an air ramp to stop turbulance.
The metal working I found quite difficult as it was all new to me. I used 1mm galvanised sheet steel , luckily I have a work mate who is a dab hand and had the cone formed in minutes around a pipe. It was then just a case of lots of pop rivets and alluminium duct tape to seal.
I used the air filter from the axminster dust seperator as we had one spare at work, I plan on installing a circulatory clean out if this gets too dirty.
Here is my temporary ducting set up until my 6in spiral ducting turns up and i get chance to install it
Does it work? Well yes, very well i tried a bucket of mixed sawdust and chippings and some masking tape and the only thing to reach the filters was the masking tape? Everything else ends up in the drum already bagged up. The oil drum even tries to collapse slightly. Only thing is sometimes the shaving stay swirling for a while before falling into the drum.
I will report back after its done some serious work and when I get round to installing that ducting.
The metal working I found quite difficult as it was all new to me. I used 1mm galvanised sheet steel , luckily I have a work mate who is a dab hand and had the cone formed in minutes around a pipe. It was then just a case of lots of pop rivets and alluminium duct tape to seal.
I used the air filter from the axminster dust seperator as we had one spare at work, I plan on installing a circulatory clean out if this gets too dirty.
Here is my temporary ducting set up until my 6in spiral ducting turns up and i get chance to install it
Does it work? Well yes, very well i tried a bucket of mixed sawdust and chippings and some masking tape and the only thing to reach the filters was the masking tape? Everything else ends up in the drum already bagged up. The oil drum even tries to collapse slightly. Only thing is sometimes the shaving stay swirling for a while before falling into the drum.
I will report back after its done some serious work and when I get round to installing that ducting.