J. Phil Thien's Projects

Ditto, me too. We raised this question a while back, but no one (to my knowledge, anyway) responded.

VAwoodworker 84 mounted his Delta on the wall. I don't believe it was the same model, but he has excellent pics posted. I think you could do the same thing with yours that he did with his - check it out.

Thanks, dbhost. I am, too, but keep waiting.  I had a friend give me an old (30 year) squirrel cage from a replaced heating unit, and am building the box and filter housing, and fitting it to basement window. I think another dylos group buy should be thought about.

Just built one inspired by this one - mine is on top of a 30 gallon recycled dairy drum, and I just glued the 6" thinwall pipe into the side and top. It works as advertised, dumped everything in the bag from the dc onto the floor, and sucked it up as a test. I'd say at least 95% of the stuff dumped went into the separator, and only a handful of fines went back into the bag. I'm totally sold. Will try to post pictures of the completed build, if I can stop using it long enough.

Thanks, Phil. Hope you got my contribution, because I got a paypal receipt for it. Thanks DB host, VAwoodworker 84, Greg Mcallister, and all the other folks who have contributed to my design juices. This was very much fun, very inexpensive, and VERY worthwhile. ::)

Good Sunday morning. Does anyone have any updates on particle counts since the group buy of the Dylos counters and Phil's initial tests? Phil, have you continued to monitor the conditions in your shop, and have you achieved your goals? I'm beginning to think that the combination of the DC with 1 micron filter, the ambient air cleaner with 1175 cfm and merv 13 filter, and a squirrel cage blowing out the basement window with a merv 13 filter may just be the icing on the Thien baffle cake! Good chip and fines collection, and simply blow away most of the really small stuff.

Quote from: dbhost on November 13, 2008, 09:51:11 AM
Not sure if I did mine completely right, but I measured in 1-1/8" and using a large compass I drew the inner circle, then measured the circumference, divided by 3, and marked those spots, ran my radial lines to the center and cut out the outer ring except for that remaining 1/3 on the band saw / jig saw...

Hi, folks. I've been a lurker both here, at the creek, and also Bp's site for a while, and finally think I have enough info to move forward from where I am, which is a Powermatic 2hp with cartridge filter (1 micron). I move it from TS to chopsaw to planer to sander, ad nausea. I've been using flexible 4" hose, which i also drag from tool to tool. Also, a powermatic air cleaner, which does quite well. I'm thinking of using a heavy duty plastic barrel from former dairy, pretty heavy weight, about 30 gallons or so, and mounting the baffle ahead of the DC and using 6" 26 gauge ducting and drops wherever possible. Hoping to also get a used 230v squirrel cage free to mount in the basement window, so that I can rapidly clean up volatile organic compound fumes from spray booth. After months of paralysis by analysis, I have decided to build the baffle, stick with both powermatic units and the cartridge filter. I'm also thinking that I will build most of my blast gates with 1/8" hardboard and scrap wood, and use a side inlet to the baffle. My question is this - is there a REALLy clear picture somewhere on here that i missed, that would give me a better idea as to the proportions for the bottom part of the baffle, and the required distance from the top portion to the bottom portion? Or, is that something that can best be determined by experimentation-hence the threaded rod?

Sorry for my first post being so long - lots of pent up inaction springing to life all at one time. Grew up at a southern pine sawmill, watched my dad die from emphysema (smoker, burning bark, slabs, dust??) and don't want to suffer the same fate. But, also don't want to have to wear a mask all the time, either. Thanks to you all for the inspiration, and Phil, I will certainly be contributing to the cause! ???