How does cyclone dust collector work

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Press Releases. Resin Casting. Shop Talk. Woodcraft Magazine. Thus the invention of the cyclonic version, which keeps turning, and turning, and turning, until even some very fine particles are thrown off. I have the Dust Deputy the same one in Stuarts image. It is absolutely amazing. I just peel off the lid and dump the contents of the bucket — the operation takes all of 2 minutes.

Generally, the shop vac stopped effective suctioning due to the filter before the vac was filled. Even though the capacity of both the shop vac and bucket are both 5 gal — the Dust Deputy can be filled with slightly more stuff. The buckets are semi-translucent so you can tell when they are filled without needing to open the thing. My setup is a 5 or 6 gal. Rigid Black Friday vac from several years ago.

I built a base for it on casters, sandwiching concrete between two pieces of plywood to keep the center of gravity low. Where the casters went on the vac base, I use threaded eyebolts that go into T-nuts in the base to keep the vac from moving in the base. A top shelf holds a 5 gallon bucket that is bolted down. A piece of styrofoam in the bucket is used as a spacer, then the real 5 gallon bucket is placed inside of that.

The spacer prevents the buckets from getting vac-locked together. I then attached various PVC fittings to the top shelf around the buckets to hold attachments and the hose, and a plastic pipe holder for the extension parts. I bought the kit with the lid, buckets, and spacer at Rockler several years ago with a coupon.

They also sell just the cyclone and you are on your own with the lid and gasket. I also bought the Rockler clear shop vac hose which is fantastic, BTW. The Plastic lid they give you with the kit is pretty thin. This thinness also means that with vacuum, you can see it cavitate a bit, sucking the cyclone down. The ports are tapered, meaning there is very little friction-based contact with the hose.

The Rockler hose has a swivel built into it, and the addition of the hose clamp helps quite a bit. It looks too flimsy and would probably become brittle over time. The centrifugal force created by this fast, circular air flow drives the heavier plastic particles, fines, and dust outward toward the wall of the cyclone chamber.

They hit the wall, lose velocity, and fall down into a hopper or bin located underneath the cyclone collector. Learn More.

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