J. Phil Thien's Projects

ssotangkur, When I purchased the Rikon impeller they didn't ask me about a serial number but I have seen that others are being asked for it.

DarthVader, I believe it was about $70 delivered. Stay tuned I hope to be getting some data about the performance level from all my mods I have made to my DC.

Peter, with an increase from 9.75 to 12 inches I believe that the performance is substantial. Hopefully soon I wil be able to collect some data to show this.

Thanks,

John

Hello, I have a HF DC with the Rikon 12" impeller installed. If you contact Rikon service you can order it, the model of their DC is the 60-200 and the part reference is #22.  This easily slipped right onto the motor shaft. I haven't been able to actually take any measurements on increase of amps, cfm etc at this time. I am working on getting the instruments to do so.
Just from the feel of the air movement and also noise level I would suspect that it is working better with the larger impeller.
Hope this is helpful.
Thanks,

John

Good Morning All,

Since my initial post I have done alot more reading from the pages here as well as other sites. The consenses seems to be that the HF 2hp DC seems to be the best bang for the buck. So, in staying with that I went ahead and purchased the HF DC, as well as ordered the Wynn 35A cartridge. I have started on building the Thein baffle. So far I have measured the inner diameter and as previously found in another post the inside is just about 19 inches. Also, I have found that the mitered angle for the dowels is about 31.5 degrees with a 5.5 inch length, which with a 3/16th inch baffle thickness should put the baffle at about an inch below the intake to the separator ring. Would that be correct or should the baffle be closer to the bottom edge on the intake??

Thanks,

John

Good morning all, newbie here. I have been reading the neumerous post here and from the Bill Pentz site as well. Trying to read the Bill Pentz information has left me a bit confused(too much information and too technical, not to mention too costly for my pocketbook), fortunately this site has brought me to an understanding that I can deal with as far as being able to collect the fine dust in my small workshop and not be too financially restrictive.
I am currently looking at purchasing a DC, looking at the new JET DC100ck and the Delta 50-760. Both claim to have 1.5HP but the CFM differ by 100 (1100 for Jet and 1200 for Delta) also the price difference, the JET is just about double the Delta. So for a small shop that I plan on just using this to collect dust from only one machine at a time which would be the better one?

Thank You ,

John