Introduce yourself...

[chaosdsm]

Hello all!  Hobbyist woodworker from Central Florida here.  Been getting serious about it for last decade, but been playing around in woodworking & carpentry for 40+ years. 

In my small shop, I have been using a Dust Right separator with my Shop-Vac for a little while now.  However my Shop-Vac just died about 2 weeks ago. 

Grizzly had their 1.5HP wall mount DC with HEPA canister filter on sale for July 4th for about $720 shipped to my door, so I bit the bullet & made the purchase. 

Now I have started my own Thien build since the Dust Right only has 2 1/2" hose connections.

[rusty nail]

newbie here from up north of the 49.

[lumberjack]

Hi folks, I am Bob Crane and I live in southern Ontario. I have a couple of design/engineering questions about Thein seperator design. All of the limited engineering skills that I have lead me to believe that there is some defineable relationsip between the diameter of the baffle chamber and the cfm rating of the air supply. Vacuums are slower yet more powerful that blowers. Does the air speed  affect the seperation efficiency and is there an engineering formula to follow if I know the cfm of my vacuum? My second question relates the thickness of the secondary baffle. I am building a "top hat" seperator and find myself wondering if I should use 19mm ply or 1/4" mdf. All feed back is welcome and thank you for allowing me to join.

[PhilipOForegon]

Hi, I am also a Philip, and I have been doing wood work since 1957, my Seventh BIRTHDAY, I was given a "WARDS" Lakeside brand 16 ounce hammer, a carpenter's saw, etc.

I have built Stick Homes, Log Houses, Hardwood Floors, and finish carpentry.

Today, retired, I keep my hands busy with smaller projects, as well as working in other media.

My WOOD SUPPLY, includes species that folks do not see often, I have several Square Feet of MADRONE milled in the N.W. corner of CALIFORNIA, as flooring, and when I found it I asked about why it was hidden away: My BOSS told me it was from a Special Flooring contract, and he ALWAYS skept 10% of the contracted footage in case they needed repair, It WAS in the CONTRACT, for customer protection.

He had completely forgotten about it, and as he thought, WELL, it was almost 20 years old, we were talking in 1992 . . .

So I will be doing a Winter Project from it. IN 2025!!!

I also have quite a bit of Rock Hard MAPLE, the species used to make bowling alleys, WHICH was where I got it, a remodel, REPAIR of the first 10-12 feet of each lane!

I asked what the crew would be doing with their "waste" and was soon loading it into my Subaru Forester, Two trips to bring it home!

Does anyone else get SALVAGED WOOD that way