J. Phil Thien's Projects

I was thinking of having the two separate chambers that just happen to share a wall.  But I hadn't thought about the scroll shape of the blower vs the circular separator. Once that's accounted for, construction likely won't be any easier. So I guess I'll stick with two separate devices, coupled closely.

Thanks for the input!

I'm in the process of designing and building a DC system, including building my own blower. It occurred to me the other day that, since I'm building the blower, I might be able to integrate the blower and separator into one piece. Instead of having an outlet pipe that extends out of the separator to the blower, the two devices could share that wall directly.

I'm thinking this might help relieve a pressure bottleneck, but it might not be worth it. Anyone have any ideas?

Hello! I'm tired of my shopvac's inability to control the dust in my basement shop, so I'm about to start putting together a fully DIY dust collection system. I'm excited to experiment with the Thien Baffle!