J. Phil Thien's Projects

OK I made a collector from a metal garbage can with a wood "circle" under the lid and it works really well, but I wanted to use the plastic separator and bought one and installed it on the lid of the garbage can, now more than half on the shavings  go into my shop vac I was wondering are my shavings too large for the small seperator has anyone had this problem or could it be that there maybe an air leak causing this, thank you

recently shavings have been collecting on the threaded spacer rods between the cover and baffel, moving the rods closer together may help i hope, but what is the largest slot you can use for the shavings to fall through, has anyone else had this problem, it is hooked up to a planer

has any one hooked the seperator to a DW734 planner yet, after many days of looking at plumbing fittings i am still confused on what to use, i really don't have a concern about the hose size of the hose from my 6 gal wet/dry vac (2 1/2 "), but the collector on the DW734 is different than the DW735 planer, the end of the collector has a reducer going from 4" down to 2 1/2". I want to take the dryer vent from the collector (without the reducer) to the intake of the seperator, at which point it looks like 3" sch40 fittings might work as the 4" dryer hose will fit snug over the 3" schedule 40 fitting has any one tried this yet, will the dryer vent hose hold up.