Ozbow

After watching several videos on making a dust collector with hit and miss results I thought paying $34.00 for a commercially made one a bargain.

My biggest challenge was finding a suitable flexible hose, rigid pvc pipe and fittings. I managed to find the bits and pieces at the local Bunning’s store.

The unit connected to my lamination belt grinder is amazingly efficient; I would rate it at least 99%.
I have done away with the two cloth bags and have a smaller plastic in place to catch any stray dust. Suction is improved as it does not have the cloth bags to impede air flow.
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The collector connected to the Ozito works very well and when testing it I accidently blocked the nozzle and the vacuum collapsed the wall of bucket. Fitting cross braces in the bucket fixed the issue.
Mounting the unit on a $15.00 dolly makes it a lot easier to move it around in my workshop.
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In hindsight I should have installed this type of system years ago and recommend them to anyone who has a dust extractor system, simply empty the bucket when necessary.

Daryl.

I connected the cyclone dust collector on the 20th. March this year and I had to empty the 20 litre collection bin on the 4th. June.

This unit has proved to be very efficient as only about a teaspoon of sanding dust was in the bag on the exhaust end of the dust extractor.

Daryl.
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Wow that system seems to work extremely well Daryl. I might have to look into one myself.

Jeff